Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Fort Collins Colorado can find world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall technology, email security, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes result in major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is currently fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data security as well as preparedness for recovering vital data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can assist your business at any level in your efforts to guard your information network, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every company ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and build a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop online server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique support in vital areas of network security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Get the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for products 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 Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability management, information protection process control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to provide services in important categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security services covered within GIAC certification programs such as auditing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Fort Collins Colorado and you want cybersecurity help, 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 Fort Collins and Southern Wyoming Areas.