Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security issues, businesses in Cincinnati Ohio have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class help for vital security and recovery solutions including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve within a victim's network, 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 intended to guide you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and isolate breached devices and protect clean resources from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case you are now experiencing a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network security plus preparation for recovering vital information and functions after an attack requires a continual process that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning software, define and implement a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote access to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include non-stop online network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home workers commonly use their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of at-home workforce solutions experts can help you to plan, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in environments that include at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense stack that includes computer learning algorithms and professional services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to guard endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the initial endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your network so you can expose, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to detect when your system is actively being targeted across high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to make it possible to take action quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection 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 pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently observed. Progent can provide ongoing autonomous PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight DPS 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 expert can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, go 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 or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide unique consulting support in vital facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consultants
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Technical Assistance

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

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in critical areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Cincinnati Ohio and you're looking for computer security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Cincinnati and the surrounding metro areas.