Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, businesses in Fort Myers, FL, have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer fast and economical help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing network protection plus preparedness for recovering critical data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your information network, from security assessments to designing a complete security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature non-stop remote system monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection 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 require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, 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 virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines 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 high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can help you to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Get more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the core skills and international benchmarks of performance that computer security managers are required to master. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, risk assessment, information security process control, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with 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 cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in key categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Fort Myers or elsewhere in the state of Florida and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.