Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online help with computer security problems, businesses in Dayton Ohio have access to expert support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and economical help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are currently experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to see how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any company ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance 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 data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include continual remote system monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique consulting support in vital areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability management, information security process control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

Read more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

Read additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in key areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Dayton Ohio and you're looking for cybersecurity expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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