Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Downers Grove Illinois can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISA and CISSP.

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are now faced with a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating data protection as well as planning for recovering vital data and systems following an attack demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your IT network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop remote network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 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 (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size top-level consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your organization in key security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the help of certified professionals for all of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing networks, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Downers Grove Illinois and you want network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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