Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with data security issues, companies in Mesa Arizona can find high-level troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to offer fast and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class support for critical security and restoration solutions including AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall technology, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security help on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage within a target's network, the more time it will require to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are currently experiencing a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for a security breach, the formal post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing network security and preparedness for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can help your business at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature continual remote server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
Work-from-Home workers typically utilize their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of Work-from-home support experts can help your business to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that incorporate remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense platform that features computer learning software and expert services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to guard endpoints against increasingly sophisticated threats including ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first EDR response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert so-called tripwires such as fake credentials to find out when your network is actively under attack along various attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough detail to allow you to react promptly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can provide ongoing automatic penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Assessment Experts.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating 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 regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique support in key facets of network protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help your company to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Read more details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Get more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies and procedures.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to deliver services in key areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification topics including auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Mesa Arizona and you're looking for network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Phoenix Metro Area.