Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with computer security issues, companies in Mobile Alabama have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and economical help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection plus preparation for restoring vital information and systems following an attack demands an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help security staff to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop remote system monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic 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 ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing 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 gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you 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 security consultants can provide unique support in key areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and crisis handling support.

Find out more information about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Support.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills necessary to deliver support in key areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Mobile Alabama and you're trying to find computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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