Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security issues, companies in Melbourne Victoria can find world-class support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class help for key security and restoration solutions including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may take longer to become aware of a break-in and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can manage within a victim's network, the more time it takes to recover core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the urgent first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned carefully for a security breach, the formal post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer security plus preparation for recovering critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature automated remote network monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home workers typically use their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of telecommuter support experts can help your business to plan, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat defense stack that includes computer learning software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be installed in minutes to guard endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats such as ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, concurrent, automated assessment of your network to help you identify, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant so-called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to find out whether your environment is being targeted across proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough detail to allow you to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent can provide ongoing autonomous penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, missing patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. 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: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, apps, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection family 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 dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class support in vital areas of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Corp Help

Read more information about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Read the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Get more details about Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for defining security policies and procedures.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Support.

GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

Read more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Melbourne Victoria and you want network security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the greater Melbourne metro area.