Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online assistance with network security issues, businesses in Montgomery, AL, can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are now experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing network security plus preparation for recovering vital information and systems following a security breach demands an on-going program involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified experts can support your business at any level in your attempt to protect your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every company should have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images/, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside 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 organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class support in key facets of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important industry security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced consulting for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, information protection program control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to deliver support in key areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Montgomery or anywhere in the state of Alabama and you need computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.