Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Miami Florida can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for vital cybersecurity and restoration solutions such as AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad range of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple solutions result in major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to become aware of a breach and are least able to organize a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to achieve inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to recover core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean resources from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case your network is currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to find out how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus preparedness for recovering vital data and systems after an attack demands an on-going program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature automated online network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically use their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce solutions experts can assist your business to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that include telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management stack that includes AI software and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be installed in a few minutes to guard popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first endpoint response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires like bogus credentials to detect when your network is actively under attack along key attack vectors. Tripwires provide enough information to make it possible to take action quickly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, skipped patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Services.

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 organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of important files, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used as this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique consulting support in key areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Get additional details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in key areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing security systems, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Miami Florida and you're trying to find computer security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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