Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Greensboro North Carolina can find expert support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is currently experiencing a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security and preparation for recovering critical data and systems following an attack requires a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your business at any level in your attempt to guard your IT network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Any organization ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include non-stop remote network tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government 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 alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS 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 filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network 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, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure 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 storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Get additional information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are expected to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in key security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, data protection program management, and crisis handling management.

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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 been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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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 proven 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 help your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in critical categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Greensboro North Carolina and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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