Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Detroit Michigan can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide expert help for key cybersecurity and recovery technologies like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel may take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve inside a target's network, the more time it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help you to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets 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.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If you are now experiencing a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to see how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data security plus planning for recovering critical information and systems after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can help your business at any level in your efforts to guard your IT system, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist security personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and build a secure computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to email and data, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages feature continual online server tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home workers commonly use their personal computing devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of at-home workforce support consultants can help your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in environments that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out 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 platform that includes computer learning software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be loaded in minutes to guard popular endpoints against modern threats such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first EDR response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to find out when your system is under attack along high-risk attack paths. Tripwires provide enough detail to make it possible to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important component of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software 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 DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more 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 allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class support in key areas of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Configuration Help
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

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

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, access control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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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 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 consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Detroit Michigan and you're looking for network security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the state of Michigan.