Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Southern Florida.

For fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Fort Lauderdale, FL, can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are qualified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes result in major expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are now faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to learn how to get fast help. Progent maintains a team of certified network security experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network security and staying ready for recovering critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and build a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to normal functions, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as 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 Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. 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 technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out 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 allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique support in key areas of IT security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Consulting
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security managers are required to master. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to provide effective security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program control, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous 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 field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP qualified cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-qualified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to deliver support in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Fort Lauderdale or anywhere in the state of Florida and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.