Maryland Network Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery
For Information Systems of All Sizes:
Security and Compliance Expertise and Support
Business information networks in the state of Maryland now have fast and affordable remote access to Progent's qualified network security engineers to assist with complex security problems. Rates are affordable, charges are by the minute, engagement is quick, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for complex engagements that requires the knowledge of senior security engineers with high-level security certifications.
If your Maryland business is situated away from larger urban areas such as Baltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Dundalk, the availability of nearby certified security experts could be limited during an emergency. This could mean a loss of income for your company, upset clients, unproductive employees, and defocused executives. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security consultant ready to deliver assistance when you require it to keep your information system running and salvage your information.
Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your efforts to guard your network with support ranging from security checks to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers affordable support to help businesses of all sizes to configure and maintain secure networks powered by Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX or Linux platforms as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to complete the urgent first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated.
If your network has been breached by any version 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 Expertise
Progent can show you how to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.
Progent's certified engineers are available remotely or on premises to provide a variety of urgent or longer-term computer security services which include:
- Perform extensive network security evaluations
- Clean up promptly after virus and worm attacks
- Configure hardware and software firewalls
- Implement safe techniques for remote and mobile connectivity
- Install effective solutions for automatic defense against spam and DHAs
- Develop a company-wide security strategy with proactive network monitoring
- Provide outsourced Help Desk Support
- Help Create an effective network backup and disaster recovery plan centered on System Center Data Protection Manager backup technology
Progent's support professionals offer advanced services in vital facets of system security including security evaluation, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security consulting.
System Security Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your current network protection environment through comprehensive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and proven procedures. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves your company consulting fees and assures an objective portrayal of security holes. The information your company is provided can make up the basis of a network protection plan that will permit your information system to run dependably and adapt quickly to new threats.
Automated Network Security Audits
Progent provides expertise in the application of security testing packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a set of programmed network auditing checks to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with other network analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.
Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations, configure auditing tools, define and implement a secure network environment, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to help you set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install VPN. Learn more on Progent's automated security assessment.
Security Inventory Packages for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get an objective security assessment from a certified security expert. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your company firewall to uncover possible risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to determine the risk to internal threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured remote location. The project is managed by a consultant with high-level security credentials and who generates a document that details and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and suggests practical improvements where called for.
Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.
Stealth Security Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any successful network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently checked. Learn more on Progent's network penetration testing consulting.
Firewall and Virtual Private Network Support
Progent's background in security solutions includes in-depth field work with leading firewalls and VPN technology from multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of engineers with key networking certifications such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more performance than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your current 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 design, integrate, tune, administer and debug firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more details about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.
Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection products offer a complete line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company objectives. Learn more details concerning Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent provides small and medium size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security strategy and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to support your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.
Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn 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 makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Security Planning
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive procedures and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy assists your company's IT security engineers to assess the damage resulting from an attack, repair the system, document the event, and get business functions operational as soon as possible.
Progent's certified information security consultants can to assist your business to run a full risk assessment and define a computer security strategy to establish security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and dangers.
CISM Qualified System Security Support Expertise
The CISM organization defines the basic capabilities and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to deliver effective security administration and support services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:
- IS Security Strategies
- Vulnerability Management
- IS Security Implementation Management
- Information Security Management
- Response Management
CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has awarded certification accreditation in the area of data protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your organization in a broad range of security fields including:
- Security Administration Procedures
- Security Infrastructure and Models
- Access Management Systems and Processes
- Applications Development Security
- Operations Security
- Physical Security
- Data Encryption Technology
- Telecom, Network and WAN Security
- Disaster Recovery Preparedness
CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough testing and significant work with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven skill in the most challenging requirements of information security architecture bounded by the wider field of information system security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.
- Access Management Systems and Techniques
- Telecommunications and System Infrastructure Protection
- Encryption/Decryption Solutions
- Requirements Analysis and Security Guidelines
- Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Hardware Security
CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified network security audit experts are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:
- Information Systems Audit Services
- IT Governance
- Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
- Information Technology Service Delivery
- Protecting Data Resources
- Business Continuity Preparedness
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation experts can provide a range of risk evaluation services such as:
- Gather information and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
- Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and company policies associated with your network to assess their possible impact on your strategic goals
- Identify possible vulnerabilities for your business workflows to help in evaluating your corporate risk
- Create a risk awareness program and provide seminars to make sure your organization appreciate IS risk so they can assist with your risk management program
- Match key risk scenarios to related operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
- Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement
GIAC Qualified Network Security Engineering Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit experts are available to help your company with:
- Auditing IT Infrastructure
- Incident Response
- Traffic Analysis
- Web Services Security
- SIEM solutions
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