Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Nashville Tennessee have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide efficient and economical assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including CISA and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model with no minimum times and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions entail big charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection as well as planning for restoring critical information and functions following a security breach requires a continual effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any organization should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature continual remote system tracking and fast response to problems.

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

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for 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 rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, 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 security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight 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 critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class specialized help in key facets of network security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist you to analyze audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level support for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the experience and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your organization in vital security areas including information security governance, risk management, data security program control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Expertise.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in Nashville Tennessee and you're looking for computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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