Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in Detroit Michigan have access to expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick fixes turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are now fighting a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data protection as well as preparedness for recovering critical information and systems after a security breach demands an on-going program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature non-stop remote system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective measures to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home workers typically utilize their personal computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of Work-from-home solutions experts can assist your business to plan, configure and manage an effective security solution that protects vital information resources in networks that include at-home workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing 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 offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files, apps, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used as this second form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III 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 retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique expertise in vital facets of network security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic network scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out additional details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level consulting for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and skill to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in key security areas including information protection governance, risk assessment, data security program control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. 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
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide services in key categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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

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