Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Kansas City Missouri have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide efficient and economical help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case you are now faced with a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of certified network security experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security and preparedness for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to secure your information network, from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and build a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile access to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual remote network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore a network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly 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 Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn 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 filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight 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 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 client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Learn more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced consulting for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in vital security disciplines including information security governance, risk assessment, data protection process control, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Kansas City Missouri and you're trying to find network security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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