Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with computer security issues, businesses in Jacksonville Florida can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is currently faced with a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer security and staying ready for restoring vital data and functions after an attack requires an on-going program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified experts can help your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any business should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to help security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop online server tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class support in vital areas of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

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

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program management, and incident handling management.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get more details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Get additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

Learn more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical categories of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC accreditation topics including auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Jacksonville Florida and you want computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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