Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Calgary Alberta can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer effective and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class help for vital cybersecurity and recovery solutions like AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a break-in and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make inside a target's system, the longer it will require to restore core operations and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to complete the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and isolate infected devices and protect clean resources from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case your business is currently fighting a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal incident response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security plus staying ready for restoring critical information and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and implement a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature automated remote system monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
At-home employees commonly use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of at-home workforce support experts can help your business to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that guards critical IT assets in environments that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management stack that features computer learning algorithms and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in a few minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the first incident response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response services.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to detect when your network is currently under attack along various attack paths. Tripwires generate enough information to make it possible to take action promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of important files, apps, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection 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 DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these managed backup services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out 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, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique expertise in vital areas of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes top-level support for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Integration
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Read additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in critical areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for all of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Calgary Alberta and you're looking for cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Calgary metro area.