Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Edmonton Alberta can find world-class expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide effective and economical help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If you are now experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating data security as well as planning for restoring critical information and systems after an attack requires an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to guard your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any business ought to have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include continual online network tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical 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 provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique support in key facets of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced engineering services for products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in critical areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Edmonton Alberta and you want computer security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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