Company networks in the state of North Carolina can depend on quick and affordable remote help from Progent's certified network security professionals to help with complex security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that demand the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with high-level security credentials.

If your North Carolina company is far from major urban areas including Charlotte, Raleigh, Greensboro, Durham, or Winston-Salem, support from nearby certified network security support specialists could be problematic during a crisis. This can cause a loss of revenue for your company, angry customers, idle workers, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a Certified security consultant ready to deliver help when you have to have it to get your computer network on line and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in all your efforts to protect your information system with services ranging from network security checks to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers affordable support to assist businesses of all sizes to configure and maintain protected networks powered by Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux platforms as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone devices.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to carry out the urgent first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist you to locate and isolate infected devices and protect clean resources from being penetrated.

If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Introduction to 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 filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall.

Progent's security engineers are accessible online or in person to offer a variety of emergency or longer-term IT security services which include:

If your company has an immediate need for IT security help, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support.

Progent's security experts can deliver world-class services in vital fields of network protection including security assessment, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security consulting.

System Security Assessment
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing computer protection systems through comprehensive remote automated testing via sophisticated software tools and proven procedures. Progent's skill in this service saves your company money and offers an objective portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your IT organization is provided can form the basis of a network protection plan that can permit your network to run safely and adapt rapidly to future risks.

Automated Network Security Analysis
Progent provides expertise in the use of security analysis products including Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically performing a variety of programmed system auditing checks to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad experience with other security analysis utilities such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools like Metasploit, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can show you how to design security into your company processes, configure auditing tools, plan and deploy a secure system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to show you how to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out additional information about Progent's network security audits.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory service packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an objective security assessment from a certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer administers an extensive examination of your network from outside your company firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a system scan from a secure machine inside your firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured remote location. The process is directed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective remediation where called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, automated testing of your network to help you expose, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Network Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's stealth security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Support
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes in-depth field work with major firewalls and VPN products offered by multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned key networking certifications including CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help your company to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your company to design, deploy, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more details about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access technology provide a full range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business goals. Find out additional information about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, 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 within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Consulting
Any company ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive processes and response planning. The proactive plan is a collection of procedures designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy helps your network security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a security penetration, repair the system, record the event, and get the IT network running as soon as feasible.

Progent's certified IT security consultants can to assist your business to perform a complete risk assessment and create a computer security strategy to establish security policies and controls to reduce ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Security Engineering Assistance
The CISM organization describes the core capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security managers are expected to learn. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM credential have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and support services. Progent offers the services of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

  • Information Security Strategies
  • Vulnerability Analysis
  • Information Security Implementation Management
  • Network Security Management
  • Response Management
Find out additional details about Progent's CISM Accredited Network Security Engineering Expertise.

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of data security stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a broad range of security fields such as:

  • Security Management Procedures
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Management Systems and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read more details about Progent's CISSP Accredited Cybersecurity Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive work with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated mastery in the more challenging requirements of IS security architecture within the wider scope of IS security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and Network Infrastructure Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Solutions
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Read additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Engineering Professionals.

CISA Qualified Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit experts can assist your company in the areas of:

  • Information Systems Audit Process
  • IT Administration
  • Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • IT Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Data Resources
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Get more details concerning Progent's CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Consulting Support.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk management specialists can provide a range of risk evaluation services including:

  • Gather data and review documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements and company standards associated with your information system to determine their possible impact on your strategic goals
  • Point out potential vulnerabilities for your business workflows to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your organization understand IT risk so they can contribute to your risk management program
  • Match key risk vectors to related operational procedures to help assign risk responsibility
  • Validate risk appetite with executive management and key stakeholders to ensure they align
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Accredited Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge needed to deliver services in critical areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC information security audit consultants are available to assist your IT organization with:

Find out more information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Engineer
To find out how you can access a certified Progent security engineer for remote or onsite assistance in North Carolina, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Computer Help.

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