Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, companies in El Paso Texas can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as preparation for recovering vital information and systems following a security breach requires a continual program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every company should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to help security staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature continual online system monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art 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 Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. 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 allows you to capture, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class specialized help in key facets of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key global security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable devices. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level engineering services for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of service that IT security managers are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information protection governance, risk management, data protection program control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security professional able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Learn more information about Progent's CRISC Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional has the skills necessary to provide services in critical categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified security engineers for any of the security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in El Paso Texas and you need cybersecurity consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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