Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with network security problems, companies in Reno Nevada can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide effective and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security credentials including CISM and CISSP.

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your network is currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared 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 responding to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network protection and planning for restoring vital information and functions following a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every company should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and build a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature automated online server monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Learn 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single 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 allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find 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 like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced support for security products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the background and skill to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in key security areas including information security governance, risk assessment, information protection process control, and incident response management.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Read more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies and procedures.

Read additional details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Reno Nevada and you're looking for computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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