Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with data security issues, businesses in Downers Grove Illinois have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions entail big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If you are currently fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer security as well as planning for restoring critical information and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information system, from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any company ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and build a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one 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 capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Find out more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size top-level support for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that computer security managers are expected to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines including information security governance, risk assessment, information protection process management, and crisis response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop 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 organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in important categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is located in Downers Grove Illinois and you want computer security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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