Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Sarasota, FL, have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for restoring critical information and functions following a security breach requires a continual process that entails an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can assist your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security personnel to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include continual remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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 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 (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new 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 Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of IT security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level engineering services for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security professionals are required to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability management, information protection program control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate 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 strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in key areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Sarasota or elsewhere in Florida and you need network security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in metropolitan Orlando and Tampa Florida.