Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Raleigh, NC, can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide efficient and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model without minimum times and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to see how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security and planning for restoring critical information and functions following an attack demands an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include continual online server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous 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 Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore 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 Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide unique specialized help in key facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic network scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and skill to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk management, data protection process control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects 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 demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in critical categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Raleigh or elsewhere in North Carolina and you're trying to find network security engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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