Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security issues, businesses in St. Louis, MO, have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to learn how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security as well as preparation for restoring critical data and systems following an attack demands an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every company should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected remote access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote system monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out 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) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical 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 like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer unique support in key areas of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic system scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances plus portable devices. Find out the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information security governance, risk management, information security process management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security management procedures, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in St. Louis or anywhere in Missouri and you're looking for network security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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