Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online help with network security problems, companies in Fort Worth Texas can find high-level troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for key cybersecurity and restoration solutions including AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to become aware of a break-in and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can manage inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to recover basic operations and scrambled files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are currently fighting a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network protection as well as staying ready for recovering vital information and systems after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote server monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to plan, implement and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical IT resources in networks that incorporate telecommuters and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense platform that includes computer learning software and expert services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern assaults such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you identify, rank, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires such as fake credentials to find out when your network is actively being probed across key attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough information to make it possible to take action promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are correctly set up and actively observed. Progent can provide continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, missing patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Experts.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of critical files, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can help your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies and procedures.

Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver services in important categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Fort Worth Texas and you're trying to find computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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