Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Richmond Virginia have access to expert expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case you are now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer security and preparation for recovering vital data and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at any level in your attempt to safeguard your information network, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and implement a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual remote server tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical 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 installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information 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 call for urgent action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Learn 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 and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks 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 gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. 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: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can assist you to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Read more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the core skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their certification have the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas including information security governance, risk management, data protection process management, and crisis handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Read more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to provide support in vital categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Richmond Virginia and you want network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout central Virginia.