Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in Arlington Texas have access to high-level troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital cybersecurity and recovery technologies like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may be slower to recognize a break-in and are less able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage within a target's network, the longer it will require to recover basic IT services and damaged files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and quarantine infected devices and guard clean resources from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to see how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for a security breach, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer security plus planning for restoring vital data and functions after an attack demands a continual program involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and build a secure IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected remote access to email and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual online server tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter support consultants can assist you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in networks that include at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management stack that includes AI algorithms and expert services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be loaded in a few minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first endpoint response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, concurrent, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant so-called tripwires like fake credentials to find out whether your network is actively under attack across common attack paths. Tripwires provide enough information to allow you to react quickly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event log monitoring are correctly configured and consistently observed. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, apps, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

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 technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. 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 allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic system tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Read more details about Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all phases 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 proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in vital categories of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Arlington Texas and you're trying to find computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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