Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for vital cybersecurity and recovery technologies such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick solutions result in big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve within a victim's system, the more time it takes 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 assist you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your business is now faced with a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of certified network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for a security breach, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security and preparedness for recovering vital data and systems following an attack requires an on-going process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified professionals can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and propose processes and policies to optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include non-stop remote server monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home staff members commonly utilize their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce support consultants can assist you to plan, deploy and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that include telecommuters and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to optimizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat management platform that features AI algorithms and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be installed in minutes to protect popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial endpoint response tool activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network to help you find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can plant decoys called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to find out when your system is currently under attack along common attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to make it possible to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can run extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is intended 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 (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class support in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced support for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Software Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consulting
• Symantec Help

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

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security capabilities covered under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Augusta-Richmond County Georgia and you want computer security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Eastern Georgia and South Carolina.