Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Fort Lauderdale Florida can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are now experiencing a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating network security and planning for recovering vital information and functions following a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature non-stop online system monitoring and immediate 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 physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time 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 (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class consulting support in key areas of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Read additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Fort Lauderdale Florida and you want cybersecurity expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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