Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with computer security problems, businesses in Richmond Virginia can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing computer protection and staying ready for restoring vital information and functions after an attack requires a continual effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can help your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business should have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual online system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost 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 facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS 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 incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more 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 makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. 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 a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class support in key facets of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for solutions from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, vulnerability management, data security process management, and incident handling support.

Learn additional information about Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in key categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in Richmond Virginia and you need computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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