Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Greensboro North Carolina have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide efficient and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is now fighting a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating network protection and staying ready for recovering critical information and systems after an attack requires an on-going process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can support your business at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization should develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop online network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class specialized help in key areas of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection program management, and crisis handling support.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read additional information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in important categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Greensboro North Carolina and you want cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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