Business networks in the state of Kentucky can now get quick and economical online help from Progent's certified security professionals to resolve critical security issues. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, engagement is quick, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for long-term projects that demand the knowledge of senior security consultants with high-level industry credentials.

In case your Kentucky office is situated away from major urban areas such as Louisville, Lexington, Owensboro, or Bowling Green, the availability of local certified security support specialists is often problematic during an urgent situation. This can cause a loss of income for your business, angry customers, unproductive workers, and defocused executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security professional who can provide expertise whenever you need it to get your system operating and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in your efforts to guard your network with support services ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides affordable support to help businesses of all sizes to design and maintain secure IT environments based on Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems plus mobile users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's security professionals are available online or on premises to offer a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services which include:

  • Run extensive network security evaluations
  • Recuperate quickly after virus and worm attacks
  • Install effective firewalls
  • Configure secure solutions for offsite and mobile access
  • Install effective software for automatic protection against spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Develop a company-wide security plan with 24x7 monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Call Center Support
  • Help Develop an effective backup and disaster recovery strategy based on Microsoft DPM backup/restore capability
If your network has an emergency requirement for computer security support, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Support.

Progent's support professionals provide advanced services in vital fields of computer protection that include analysis, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.

System Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your existing network protection environment by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and proven procedures. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves your company time and money and assures an accurate portrayal of weaknesses. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the basis of a network protection plan that will allow your network to operate safely and respond quickly to new threats.

Automated Security Audits
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a variety of programmed network testing scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with other security analysis tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye, as well as utilities like Metasploit Framework, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and react effectively.

Progent can help you design protection into your company operations, install scanning software, define and deploy a secure network environment, and suggest policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security engineers are ready to help you set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Find out more about Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service packages designed to allow small businesses to receive a professional security assessment from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers an extensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a network scan from an authorized computer inside your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal threats. The two security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured external site. The project is overseen by an engineer with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that details and interprets the information captured by the security scan and suggests practical remediation if called for.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any successful IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log monitoring are correctly set up and consistently checked. Learn additional information concerning Progent's stealth security penetration analysis support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Support
Progent's expertise in network security solutions encompasses extensive familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the services of engineers with key industry accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances and upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to plan, integrate, optimize, administer and debug firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology represent a comprehensive range of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align best with your business goals. Find out additional information about Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and medium size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select the right technologies from multiple vendors to support your security objectives while sticking within your budget limits.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details 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 makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Consulting
Any business should develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack procedures and response planning. The pre-attack strategy is a set of procedures intended to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your company's network security personnel to assess the impact resulting from a security penetration, repair the system, document the experience, and get the IT network restored as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security consultants can to help your company to perform a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and define a computer security plan to establish security policies and controls to mitigate future assaults and dangers.

CISM Certified Information Security Support Assistance
The CISM committee defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. CISM gives business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM Premier security consultants to assist companies with:

  • Network Security Processes
  • Risk Analysis
  • IS Security Implementation Management
  • Information Security Management
  • Recovery Planning
Find out additional details concerning Progent's CISM Certified IS Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP denotes expertise with a worldwide standard for data security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification recognition in the area of information security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a variety security areas such as:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Control Systems and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Data Encryption Technology
  • Telecom, Network and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Find out additional details concerning Progent's CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough examination and significant experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most in-depth demands of IS security architecture bounded by the broader scope of information security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and Network Infrastructure Protection
  • Encryption/Decryption Options
  • Needs Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Physical Security
Read additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Professionals.

CISA Qualified Security Auditing Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified information security audit engineers can assist your company in the areas of:

  • Information Systems Audit Process
  • Information Technology Administration
  • Systems and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
  • Information Technology Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Information Resources
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Get additional details about Progent's CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Assistance.

CRISC Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified IT risk mitigation engineers can provide a range of risk assessment services including:

  • Gather information and study documentation to evaluate significant vulnerabilities
  • Inventory statutory, industry, and business requirements and company standards associated with your information system to assess their possible influence on your strategic goals
  • Identify potential threats for your business workflows to help in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IS risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to related business procedures to help assign risk ownership
  • Validate risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they match
Read the details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Experts.

GIAC Qualified IS Security Consulting Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC security audit specialists can assist your business with:

Read more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Engineer
To find out how to contact a Progent security engineer for online or onsite expertise in Kentucky, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Network Help.

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