Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with data security problems, companies in Mobile Alabama have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide fast and affordable help with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for key cybersecurity and recovery technologies including AI-based End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad selection of services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple fixes turn into major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can manage inside a victim's network, the more time it will require to restore core operations and damaged files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to take the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist you to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is currently fighting a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a team of veteran network security specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to protect against future attacks.

For companies 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 serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus planning for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information network, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a secure network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature continual remote network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their own computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce support consultants can assist you to design, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical IT resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense stack that features AI algorithms and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be loaded in a few minutes to defend endpoints against modern assaults including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial endpoint response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response services.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out when your system is currently being probed across key attack paths. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to take action promptly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively observed. Progent can provide continuous autonomous penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to the latest variants 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. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files/folders, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this added means of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class support in key facets of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert consulting for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Get additional information about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in vital areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Mobile Alabama and you want network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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