Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with computer security issues, businesses in Greensboro North Carolina can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions result in major bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing network protection as well as staying ready for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach demands an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your business at any level in your attempt to guard your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any business ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and execute a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature non-stop online network monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, 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 a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. 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 create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Read more details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

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

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of service that computer security professionals are required to master. It provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Greensboro North Carolina and you're looking for cybersecurity support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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