Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security issues, companies in Kansas City Missouri can find expert support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your business is currently faced with a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of certified network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering vital data and systems following a security breach demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop online server monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, 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 business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn 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, update, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide unique support in vital areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional information about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as information protection governance, risk management, information security program management, and incident response management.

Learn more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

Get additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services.

CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Find out more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Support.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Kansas City Missouri and you need computer security consulting expertise, phone 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.