Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with computer security problems, businesses in Dayton Ohio have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide effective and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple solutions result in big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing data protection plus preparedness for restoring vital data and systems following an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can help your business at any level in your attempt to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include non-stop online system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their own devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter support experts can help your business to plan, implement and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital information resources in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To learn more about Duo identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you�re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique expertise in vital facets of network security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can help you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level consulting for technologies from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security process control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in vital categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is located in Dayton Ohio and you want computer security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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