Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with data security problems, businesses in Baltimore Maryland can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for vital security and restoration technologies including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security support on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and avoids situations where quick fixes turn into big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff may take longer to become aware of a penetration and are least able to mount a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve within a victim's network, the more time it takes to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist businesses to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect clean resources from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of veteran network security experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for recovering critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your business at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated online network tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their own computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical space. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home solutions experts can help your business to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects vital information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat management platform that features AI algorithms and expert services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the initial incident response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware breach. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response services.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to detect whether your system is actively being probed along common attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to allow you to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently observed. Progent can provide continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, uninstalled patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Assessment Services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge 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 incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. 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: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of critical files, apps, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A broad range of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on 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 relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consulting
• Check Point Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in key categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for all of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Baltimore Maryland and you're looking for network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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