Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online help with network security issues, businesses in Downers Grove Illinois can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and economical help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data security as well as preparedness for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line 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. 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 service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class support in vital facets of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Learn the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information protection process control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in important categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Downers Grove Illinois and you need cybersecurity engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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