Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in Garland Texas can find world-class expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide expert support for key security and recovery technologies including AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may take longer to recognize a break-in and are least able to mount a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make within a victim's system, the more time it takes to recover basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to guide you to complete the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist you to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard clean 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.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now fighting a security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent has a pool of certified network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection and preparation for restoring vital information and functions following a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified experts can help your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to designing a complete security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security personnel to assess the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include automated remote server monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home workers typically use their personal devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical area. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce solutions consultants can assist you to plan, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense stack that includes AI algorithms and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in minutes to guard popular endpoints against modern assaults such as ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial EDR response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant so-called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out when your environment is actively being targeted across high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough information to make it possible to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify 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 such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files/folders, apps, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register 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 Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class specialized help in vital areas of IT security such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out more details about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional has the skills needed to provide support in important areas of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is situated in Garland Texas and you're trying to find cybersecurity support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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