Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Tampa Florida have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case you are now faced with a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating data security plus preparedness for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your information system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any company should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual online network monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services 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 and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details 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 create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique support in key facets of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help you to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced consulting for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in vital security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program control, and incident handling support.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify 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 carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the skills necessary to provide services in key areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Tampa Florida and you want cybersecurity support services, call 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.