Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with data security problems, companies in Durham North Carolina can find expert support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide efficient and affordable help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security credentials including CISM and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are currently experiencing a security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network protection as well as staying ready for restoring critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can assist your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any organization should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help security personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature continual remote system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically use their own computing devices and often operate in a unsecured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of Work-from-home solutions experts can assist you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that guards critical IT assets in networks that include remote workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security 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 alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of important files, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you avoid data loss caused by hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details 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 makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your 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 and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web application testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Find out the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability management, data security process control, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of 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 consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide support in key categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Durham North Carolina and you need cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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