Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Bellevue Washington can find high-level support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to offer effective and economical assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide expert support for vital cybersecurity and restoration technologies such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions entail major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can achieve within a target's system, the more time it takes to recover core IT services and scrambled 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 urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and isolate infected devices and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your network 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 Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently fighting a network security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing network protection and preparedness for recovering critical data and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security audits to creating a complete security program. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every company ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and implement a safe computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature non-stop remote system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of 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 Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home staff members commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce solutions consultants can assist your business to design, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in networks that incorporate at-home workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management stack that includes AI algorithms and professional services to deliver enterprise-class 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 protect endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats including ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial endpoint response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you uncover, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires like fake credentials to find out when your network is currently being targeted across proven attack vectors. Tripwires provide enough information to make it possible to take action promptly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. 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 cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist 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 potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of critical files/folders, apps, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or software 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 DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully 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 and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class support in key facets of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert consulting for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Get the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 cybersecurity expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver services in important categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Bellevue Washington and you're trying to find network security support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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