Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in Midland Texas have access to high-level support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide effective and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class help for key security and restoration solutions such as AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions turn into major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a breach and are least able to organize a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage within a target's system, the longer it will require to restore core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help organizations to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being compromised. If your network 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 Should We Do Now?
If you are currently experiencing a security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing network security and planning for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and implement a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop online server tracking and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their personal devices and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of telecommuter solutions consultants can help you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that protects vital information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense stack that includes AI algorithms and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern assaults including ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, memory exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first incident response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system at the outset of a ransomware breach. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network to help you find, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can insert so-called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to detect whether your system is being probed across various attack paths. Tripwires generate enough information to make it possible to take action promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement ongoing automatic PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, uninstalled patches, and unsound product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to the latest versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses 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: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of important files, applications, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details 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 protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital areas of computer security including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Read the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security 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 services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing security policies.

Learn the details about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Midland Texas and you want cybersecurity consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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