Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with network security issues, businesses in Kansas City, MO, have access to expert support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer effective and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to learn how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing network protection and preparedness for restoring vital information and systems following a security breach demands a continual program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every business should have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help security personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop remote server monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique 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 enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS 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 and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, 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 applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level consulting for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, vulnerability management, data protection process control, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for defining security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide support in critical categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is located in Kansas City or anywhere in the state of Missouri and you need cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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