Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Brisbane Queensland can find high-level expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced help for critical cybersecurity and recovery solutions including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff may be slower to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to make inside a target's system, the longer it will require to recover basic operations and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to get immediate help. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection plus preparation for restoring vital information and systems following an attack requires an on-going process involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your business at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to help security personnel to assess the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature continual online network monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
Work-from-Home staff members typically utilize their personal computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter support experts can help your business to design, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information assets in environments that include remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to focus on more strategic projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat management platform that includes computer learning software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be installed in minutes to guard endpoints against modern threats such as ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the first incident response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can insert so-called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to detect when your environment is currently being targeted across key attack vectors. Tripwires provide enough detail to allow you to take action promptly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent can provide the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are correctly configured and consistently observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, missing patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment 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 system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of important files, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique consulting support in key facets of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help you to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more information about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with 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 help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Get additional information about Progent's CISA Support Expertise.

CRISC IT 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 plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies and procedures.

Read the details concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills necessary to provide services in vital areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Brisbane Queensland and you're trying to find computer security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.