Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with computer security problems, companies in Kansas City, MO, can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure network design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to find out how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing data security as well as preparation for recovering vital data and functions after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include automated remote system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is designed 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement 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 help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn 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 provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. 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 and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic system tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert engineering services for security products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection program control, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is situated in Kansas City or anywhere in Missouri and you want cybersecurity engineering help, call 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.