Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Edmonton Alberta have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer effective and economical assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security help on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent has a pool of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security plus preparation for restoring vital information and systems after a security breach requires a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include continual remote server monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online 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 consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 infrastructure of top data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see 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 or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class expertise in key areas of computer protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Get additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of service that information security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in key security areas including information protection governance, risk management, information protection process management, and crisis handling support.

Get the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Get additional details about Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted 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 support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies.

Read the details about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in vital areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs such as assessing 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 Help
If your organization is located in Edmonton Alberta and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone 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.