Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with data security problems, companies in Garland, TX, can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer efficient and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no extra fees for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security as well as preparation for restoring critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual effort involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated online system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data 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.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays 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 World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details 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, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned 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 searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique consulting support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability management, data security program management, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide services in vital categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the help of certified professionals for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Garland or elsewhere in the state of Texas and you want computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.