Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in Dayton Ohio can find high-level troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide efficient and economical assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for critical cybersecurity and restoration solutions such as AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum times and no extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple fixes turn into big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly launched on weekends and at night, when support staff are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make within a target's network, the longer it will require to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case your business is now faced with a network security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security and preparedness for restoring critical data and functions following a security breach demands an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can install auditing software, define and execute a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include automated online system tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically utilize their personal computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home support consultants can help your business to design, deploy and maintain a compliant security solution that guards vital IT assets in environments that include an at-home workforce as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update 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 information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform 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 installed in a few minutes to defend endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first incident response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, concurrent, programmable testing of your network to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to detect whether your environment is actively under attack across proven attack paths. Tripwires generate enough detail to make it possible to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. 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 streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can provide continuous autonomous PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, uninstalled patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from 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 machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files/folders, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can help your company to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Read the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

Get the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in important categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

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

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