Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Durham North Carolina can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are currently fighting a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data security and preparation for restoring vital information and systems after an attack demands a continual effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any business should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and build a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual online network monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended 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 Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as 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 filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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 data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding 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 a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class expertise in key facets of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more information about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced support for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core skills and worldwide standards of service that information security managers are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the experience and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs such as auditing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Durham North Carolina and you're looking for network security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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