Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with network security issues, businesses in Downers Grove Illinois can find high-level support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class support for vital security and recovery solutions like AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to recognize a penetration and are less able to organize a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware can achieve inside a target's network, the more time it takes to restore core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing data protection plus planning for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security audits to designing a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist security personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a secure network architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include continual remote system tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically use their own devices and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce support experts can assist your business to design, configure and maintain an effective security solution that guards critical information assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that includes computer learning algorithms and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint software agents can be installed in minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats including ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the initial EDR response software activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery emergency. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response consulting.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated testing of your network so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out whether your network is being probed across various attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to make it possible to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event history monitoring are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Experts.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified 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 Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight 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 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 Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class support in key facets of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus portable devices. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level consulting for security products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Get more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in key areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in Downers Grove Illinois and you need network security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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