Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with data security problems, businesses in Kansas City Missouri have access to world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions entail major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer security and preparedness for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at all levels in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn 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 integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from 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 technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, 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 Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique consulting support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Learn the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced engineering services for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in vital security areas such as data protection governance, risk management, information security program management, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in critical areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Kansas City Missouri and you're looking for network security help, phone 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.