Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in Monterrey Nuevo León can find high-level support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class guidance for vital security 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 wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to become aware of a breach and are least able to mount a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to restore core IT services and scrambled files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist you to locate and isolate infected devices and guard clean resources from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your business is now fighting a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have planned carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security plus staying ready for restoring critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any company ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include non-stop online server monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Solutions
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter solutions experts can help you to design, implement and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense platform that includes computer learning algorithms and professional services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in minutes to defend popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, known and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the first EDR response software activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy so-called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to detect whether your environment is actively being targeted across proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to react promptly with your incident response workflows before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous penetration testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and track your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of vital files, applications, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine 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 service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique expertise in key facets of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert consulting for technologies from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Learn additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISA Support Services.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

Find out additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Monterrey Nuevo León and you're trying to find network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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