Company IT networks in the state of Louisiana can now get prompt and affordable online access to Progent's qualified security experts to help with urgent security issues. Rates are reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for long-term engagements that demand the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with high-level security credentials.

In case your Louisiana organization is situated away from major urban areas including New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Metairie, or Lafayette, access to local accredited security professionals may be limited when you have a crisis. This can result in a drop in income for your company, upset customers, idle workers, and distracted management. By utilizing Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer ready to provide help whenever you require it to get your information system running and recover your data.

Progent can help you in your efforts to guard your IT environment with support that ranges from security assessments to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical service to assist small and midsize companies to configure and manage protected networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms plus BYOD clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to carry out the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect clean resources from being penetrated.

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

Overview of Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can show you how to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter.

Progent's security professionals are available online or on site to offer a range of emergency or project-based network security services such as:

If your company has an emergency requirement for computer security support, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help.

Progent's consultants provide world-class services in vital facets of network protection that include security evaluation, firewall and VPN expertise, and high-level security planning.

System Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the strength of your current network protection systems by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via advanced utilities and proven procedures. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves you consulting fees and assures an accurate portrayal of security holes. The information your IT organization gains can make up the foundation of a security strategy that can allow your information system to run dependably and respond rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Security Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the application of security testing software including Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically performing a variety of programmed system testing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with other network analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye, as well as utilities such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations, configure scanning software, plan and implement a secure system environment, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to help you configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install VPN. Learn additional information about Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service bundles designed to allow small businesses to receive an impartial security evaluation from a certified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional runs a system scan from a secure computer within your firewall to determine vulnerabilities to internal attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a secured external site. The project is managed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your network so you can expose, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Network Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform thorough intrusion tests without the knowledge of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and actively checked. Find out more concerning Progent's network security penetration analysis support services.

Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's expertise in security technology includes extensive familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the support of engineers with key networking accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new deployments. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to plan, configure, tune, manage and debug firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection products provide a comprehensive range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align best with your company objectives. Read additional information about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security and VPN Products.

Engineering Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and medium size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and select the right products from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Planning
Every company ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction planning. The proactive plan is a set of steps that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy helps your company's IT security personnel to assess the impact resulting from a security penetration, fix the damage, record the event, and get the IT network restored as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security engineers are available to assist you to perform a complete risk evaluation and define a company-wide security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing attacks and dangers.

CISM Accredited System Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the core competencies and international standards of skill that IT security professionals are required to learn. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the background and capability to provide effective security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security consultants to help companies with:

  • IS Security Processes
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Program Management
  • IS Security Management
  • Response Management
Learn more information concerning Progent's CISM Qualified Network Security Consulting Professionals.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your enterprise in a variety security areas including:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Models
  • Access Management Systems and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Cryptography Technology
  • Telecom, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Accredited Network Security Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification through thorough testing and significant work with network security design. The ISSAP credential represents demonstrated mastery in the more challenging demands of information system security architecture within the wider scope of information security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Techniques
  • Phone System and Network Protection
  • Cryptography Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Read more details about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Expertise.

CISA Accredited Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified information security audit specialists are available to assist your business with:

  • IS Audit Services
  • IT Administration
  • Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle
  • Information Technology Support
  • Protecting Information Resources
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read the details concerning Progent's CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Services.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation specialists offer a range of risk assessment services such as:

  • Gather information and study documentation to identify significant risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, industry, and contractual requirements and organizational policies related to your network to determine their possible impact on your strategic goals
  • Identify potential threats for your operational workflows to help in evaluating your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to ensure your stakeholders appreciate information system risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
  • Match key risk scenarios to your associated operational processes to help determine risk responsibility
  • Determine risk appetite with executive management and key stakeholders to make sure they align
Get more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Certified Information System Security Engineering Support
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC security audit experts can help your company in the areas of:

  • Assessing Networks
  • Security Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Read additional details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Engineer
To learn how to access a Progent security engineer for online or onsite help in Louisiana, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.

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