Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security problems, companies in Alexandria Virginia have access to high-level troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class support for critical security and restoration technologies such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may take longer to become aware of a break-in and are least able to mount a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve within a target's network, the more time it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to locate and quarantine breached devices and protect clean assets from being penetrated. If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing data security and preparation for restoring vital information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to help IT staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a safe network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include continual remote server tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help 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 data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by going over event logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically utilize their own devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and requires careful deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran team of at-home workforce support consultants can assist you to design, implement and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT resources in networks that include at-home workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that features AI software and expert services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to defend endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial EDR response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network to help you expose, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires such as bogus credentials to find out when your system is being probed along proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to allow you to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent can implement ongoing automatic penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of outsourced network management 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. ProSight 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 utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of critical files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Configuration Help
• Check Point Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Get more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security 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 security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security 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 comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Alexandria Virginia and you need cybersecurity consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

Washington DC Metro Area Contact Information:
Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Greater Washington DC Metro Area including suburban Maryland and Virginia.