Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online help with computer security problems, businesses in Jacksonville Florida have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide effective and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security expertise on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick solutions turn into major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is currently faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to see how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus preparedness for recovering critical data and systems following an attack demands an on-going effort involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your information network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include continual online network monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of outsourced network management 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital facets of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level engineering services for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and international standards of performance that information technology security managers are required to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to deliver support in important areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Jacksonville Florida and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Jacksonville Metro Area.