Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with network security issues, companies in Norfolk Virginia have access to high-level expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver expert help for critical security and recovery technologies like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security help on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids situations where quick fixes entail major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may be slower to become aware of a break-in and are less able to mount a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to achieve within a victim's system, the more time it will require to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help you to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your network is now fighting a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection as well as planning for restoring vital information and systems following a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can assist your organization at whatever level in your attempt to guard your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any organization should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature non-stop online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based resources and that comply with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information lost owing to the event. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their own computers and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of at-home workforce solutions consultants can help you to design, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that incorporate telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat defense stack that features AI software and advanced services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be installed in a few minutes to guard endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response consulting.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can expose, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert so-called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out when your environment is under attack across various attack paths. Tripwires provide enough information to make it possible to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Progent can provide ongoing automatic PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, uninstalled patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of modern versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family 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 facets of information assurance. ProSight 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 machine learning tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid restoration of vital files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited 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 infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding 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 supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide unique expertise in vital facets of IT security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size advanced engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

Get the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in vital categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security services addressed within GIAC certification programs such as auditing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Norfolk Virginia and you're trying to find computer security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Hampton Roads Area.