Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with computer security problems, businesses in Edmonton Alberta can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is now fighting a security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing network protection plus preparation for restoring critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can support your business at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist security staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and execute a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include continual remote system tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (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 integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family 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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time 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 Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays 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 Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. 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 makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository 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 offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique expertise in key facets of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Find out additional details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level support for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that IT security managers are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including information protection governance, risk management, data security process management, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in vital areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Edmonton Alberta and you're trying to find cybersecurity engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Edmonton metro area.