Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with data security problems, companies in Fort Worth Texas have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now fighting a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate help. 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 cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection and preparedness for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach demands an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at any level in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any business should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help security personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, create and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature continual online server tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Flat-rate 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 organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details 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 create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Read more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes top-level support for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in key security disciplines including information protection governance, risk assessment, information protection process control, and crisis 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 certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide support in critical categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Fort Worth Texas and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Dallas Metro Area.