Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with network security problems, companies in Kansas City, MO, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes turn into big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to learn how to receive immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network security as well as planning for restoring vital data and functions after an attack demands an on-going effort involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed 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 offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read 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) services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Learn 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 incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique support in vital facets of network security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools 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 expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core skills and international standards of performance that computer security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to provide effective security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and incident handling support.

Learn the details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with 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 assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Get additional details concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in key categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Kansas City or elsewhere in Missouri and you're trying to find network security support services, 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.