Georgia Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Small business IT networks in Georgia can have prompt and economical remote help from Progent's certified network security experts to assist with complex security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the knowledge of senior security consultants with high-level security credentials.

If your Georgia organization is outside of major urban areas including Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Savannah, or Athens, the availability of local certified network security support specialists is often problematic when you have an emergency. This could mean a drop in revenue for your company, upset clients, idle employees, and defocused executives. By contacting Progent's online services, you have access to a Premier security engineer ready to offer assistance when you require it to get your information system running and restore your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to protect your information system with support services ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides economical support to assist small and midsize companies to set up and maintain safe networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms plus mobile clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to guide organizations to take the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Introduction to Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides 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 that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's security professionals are accessible remotely or on premises to provide a variety of emergency or project-based network security services including:

• Run thorough security evaluations
• Recuperate rapidly after attacks
  
• Set up and troubleshoot firewalls
• Implement secure techniques for remote and mobile access
• Install effective utilities for defense against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a company-wide security plan with proactive network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Create an effective data backup and restore strategy centered on Microsoft DPM backup capability

Progent's engineers can deliver advanced support in key areas of system protection that include security assessment, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

System Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your current network protection implementation by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated software tools and proven techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company time and money and offers a detailed portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your company is provided can be used as the basis of a network protection strategy that will allow your network to run dependably and adapt rapidly to future threats.

Automated Security Audits
Progent offers consulting in the application of security auditing software such as MBSA and GFI LANguard for economically performing a set of automatic system testing checks to uncover possible security weaknesses. Progent has broad knowledge of other security analysis tools such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your company processes, configure scanning software, plan and implement a secure network environment, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security professionals are able to show you how to set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Learn more on Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service bundles intended to allow small companies to receive a professional network security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your firewall to uncover potential risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional executes a system scan from a secure machine inside your company firewall to determine your exposure to internal threats. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected remote location. The process is directed by an engineer who has earned top security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the data captured by the security scan and proposes practical remediation if called for.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network so you can find, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out more about Progent's stealth security penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in security solutions includes extensive field work with major firewalls and VPN technology from multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the services of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help you to manage your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to design, configure, tune, manage and debug firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional details about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
Cisco's network security and offsite connection technology offer a comprehensive line of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP certifications who can help your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your company goals. Learn more information about Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent offers small and medium size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right technologies from multiple vendors to support your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud 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 and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Design
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security program that includes both proactive processes and response planning. The proactive strategy is a collection of mechanisms that help to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack plan helps your security personnel to assess the impact caused by a security penetration, fix the damage, document the event, and get the IT network restored as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security consultants are available to help your business to perform a full vulnerability assessment and create a company-wide security strategy to implement security policies and controls to mitigate future attacks and dangers.

CISM Certified Information Security Support Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the basic competencies and international standards of skill that information security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification have the experience and capability to provide efficient security administration and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:

• IS Security Governance
• Risk Analysis
• Network Security Implementation Management
• Information Security Management
• Response Planning

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Support
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential recognition in the field of information protection under ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your business in a broad range of security areas including:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Management Systems and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Data Encryption Technology
• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status through thorough testing and significant experience with information security architecture. The ISSAP credential indicates demonstrated mastery in the most complex demands of IS security architecture within the wider field of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security such as.

• Access Control Systems and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Protection
• Encryption/Decryption Solutions
• Requirements Analysis and Security Guidelines
• BCP and DRP
• Physical Security

CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The CISA credential is an important achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit engineers can assist your company in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• IT Enforcement
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
• Information Technology Support
• Protecting Data Assets
• Disaster Recovery Planning

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk mitigation consultants offer a range of risk assessment services such as:

• Collect data and study documentation to evaluate significant risk scenarios
• Identify legal, industry, and contractual requirements and company policies related to your information system to assess their possible influence on your business objectives
• Identify potential threats for your business workflows to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IS risk so they can assist with your risk control program
• Match identified risk scenarios to your associated business processes to help determine risk responsibility
• Validate risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they match

GIAC Certified Information System Security Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to deliver support in key categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-certified information security audit specialists can help your business with:

• Assessing Security Systems
• Security Incident Handling
• Intrusion Detection
• Web Services Security
• SIEM solutions

Talk to a Certified Progent Security Expert
To see how to access a Progent security consultant for online or on-premises expertise in Georgia, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Network Support.