Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with computer security issues, companies in Dallas Texas have access to high-level expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital security and recovery technologies like AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes result in big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and at night, when support staff may take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve inside a victim's system, the longer it will require to recover core IT services and scrambled 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 take the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged resources from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now faced with a network security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

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

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security as well as planning for recovering critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and execute a secure IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop remote system tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically utilize their own computing devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of Work-from-home support consultants can help you to plan, implement and manage an effective security solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that include at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that includes computer learning algorithms and advanced services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in minutes to defend popular endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system at the outset of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to find out whether your environment is currently being probed across high-risk attack paths. Tripwires provide enough information to make it possible to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Consultants.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of important files, applications, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed services 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 ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, 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 network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

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 critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's 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 ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with testing tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes top-level consulting for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Expertise
• Check Point Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Help

Learn the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Dallas Texas and you need cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Dallas Metro Area.