Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, companies in Kansas City, MO, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your network is currently faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection and preparedness for restoring critical information and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, from security assessments to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated remote network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed 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 top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The 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 external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique support in key facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWALL Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and incident response management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills necessary to provide support in vital categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security 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 Kansas City or elsewhere in the state of Missouri and you need cybersecurity engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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