Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security issues, businesses in Detroit Michigan can find expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer protection and planning for restoring critical information and systems following an attack demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every business should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and build a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include automated remote server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files, applications, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection family include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

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 critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class expertise in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert support for security products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
CISM defines the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and crisis handling support.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 network security consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification topics such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Detroit Michigan and you want computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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