Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online help with computer security problems, businesses in Huntsville Alabama have access to high-level support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer effective and economical help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide expert help for vital security and recovery solutions including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when support personnel may be slower to become aware of a breach and are less able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can make within a target's system, the longer it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to take the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and isolate infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. 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.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now fighting a network security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to learn how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer security and preparedness for restoring vital data and systems following a security breach demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to help security staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and build a safe network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual online network monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly use their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter solutions consultants can help you to design, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that include telecommuters and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management stack that includes AI software and professional services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be installed in minutes to guard endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the first endpoint response tool activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response services.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert decoys called tripwires like fake credentials to detect when your system is currently under attack across high-risk attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to make it possible to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Experts.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files, applications, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with 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 verify who you are via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique expertise in key facets of network security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous testing and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in key areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the security services covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Huntsville Alabama and you're looking for computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.