Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with data security problems, businesses in Mobile, AL, can find world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are qualified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail major bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating data security as well as planning for recovering critical data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security consultants can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, create and build a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile access to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include automated online server tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended 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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like 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 endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical data, 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 Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images/, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out 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 incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for 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 data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique specialized help in key areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic network scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that IT security managers are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information security governance, risk management, data protection process management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-certified security audit consultant able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Mobile or elsewhere in the state of Alabama and you're trying to find network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.