Company IT networks in the state of Mississippi can depend on quick and economical online help from Progent's certified network security engineers to help with the toughest security issues. Rates are competitive, charges are by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is world class. Progent also offers assistance for long-term engagements that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with top industry credentials.

If your Mississippi network is outside of larger metropolitan neighborhoods including Jackson, Gulfport, Biloxi, or Hattiesburg, the availability of local certified network security engineers could be limited when there's an urgent situation. This can result in a drop in income for your business, angry customers, idle workers, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security engineer who can provide help when you need it to get your network on line and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in all your efforts to defend your network with support services that ranges from network security checks to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers affordable service to help companies of any size to design and maintain secure IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged resources from being penetrated.

If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.

Progent's security professionals are available remotely or on premises to offer a range of emergency or longer-term IT security services which include:

  • Perform thorough security audits
  • Recuperate promptly after attacks
  • Set up firewalls from multiple vendors
  • Implement secure solutions for remote and mobile connectivity
  • Deploy advanced software for automatic defense against spam and DHAs
  • Develop a comprehensive security plan with 24x7 monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Help Desk Support
  • Help Create an effective network backup and disaster recovery solution centered on Microsoft Data Protection Manager backup/restore capability
If your business has an emergency need for IT security help, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's support professionals can deliver advanced services in vital facets of network protection that include analysis, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security consulting.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the strength of your existing computer protection systems through exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this testing saves your company money and assures an objective portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your business is provided can form the foundation of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to run safely and react rapidly to new risks.

Automated Security Audits
Progent provides consulting in the use of security auditing packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a variety of programmed system testing scans to uncover potential security weaknesses. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and react effectively.

Progent can help you design security into your business processes, install auditing tools, plan and deploy a secure network architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to configure a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more on Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation bundles designed to enable small companies to get a professional security evaluation from a certified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to uncover possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a system scan from a secure machine inside your firewall to determine the risk to internal attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured external location. The process is directed by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who produces a report that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Learn additional information about Progent's stealth security penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology encompasses extensive field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent offers the services of consultants who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more performance than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your company to plan, integrate, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional information about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and VPN Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and offsite access products offer a full line of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who are able to assist your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align best with your company goals. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security and VPN Appliances.

Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a detailed security strategy and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced 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 preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Consulting
Any company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive procedures and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a set of mechanisms designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan helps your company's IT security engineers to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, fix the damage, record the experience, and get business functions operational as quickly as possible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants can to help your business to perform a full risk evaluation and create a computer security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Accredited Information Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core capabilities and global standards of performance that information security managers are expected to learn. It gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification have the experience and capability to provide efficient security management and support services. Progent offers the support of CISM Certified security professionals to assist businesses with:

  • IS Security Processes
  • Risk Management
  • Information Security Implementation Management
  • IS Security Management
  • Recovery Management
Learn more information about Progent's CISM Qualified IS Security Consulting Professionals.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP certification recognizes expertise with a global standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a broad range of security areas such as:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Control Systems and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Technology
  • Telecom, Network and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn more information about Progent's CISSP Accredited Cybersecurity Support Professionals.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure System Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security design. The ISSAP credential represents demonstrated skill in the more complex requirements of IS security architecture within the wider field of IS security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and Network Infrastructure Protection
  • Data Encryption Solutions
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Site Security
Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is an important qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified IS security audit specialists can help your company with:

  • Information Systems Audit Services
  • IT Governance
  • Systems and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
  • Information Technology Support
  • Protecting Information Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Read the details about Progent's CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation engineers offer a range of risk evaluation services such as:

  • Gather data and study documentation to help identify major risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, industry, and business mandates and organizational standards related to your network to assess their possible influence on your strategic goals
  • Identify potential vulnerabilities for your operational processes to help in evaluating your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to make sure your organization understand IS risk so they can assist with your risk control program
  • Match identified risk vectors to your associated operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Validate risk tolerance with executive management and major stakeholders to ensure they align
Read additional information concerning Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants.

GIAC Qualified Information System Security Engineering Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in important categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified IS security audit consultants can assist your business in the areas of:

Learn more details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Talk to a Security Specialist
To find out how to get in touch with a security consultant for online or on-premises support in Mississippi, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Help.

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