Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security problems, companies in Louisville Kentucky can find world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in major bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to find out how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security as well as planning for restoring vital information and systems following a security breach requires an on-going effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and implement a safe computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include continual online network monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Read 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 service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming 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: 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, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique specialized help in vital facets of computer security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert consulting for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of service that information technology security managers are required to achieve. It offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, risk management, data security process control, and incident handling support.

Learn the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Learn additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Louisville Kentucky and you're looking for cybersecurity expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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