Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Milwaukee, WI, have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions entail major bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your business is currently experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer protection as well as planning for restoring critical data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT network, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any organization should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature continual remote network tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore a network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of outsourced network 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. ProSight 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 solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal 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 require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is 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, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique support in key facets of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can help your company to understand assessment results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide standards of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and incident handling support.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP 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.

Get more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity 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 assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in key areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Milwaukee or anywhere in the state of Wisconsin and you're looking for network security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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