Company computer networks in Ohio can have prompt and affordable online access to Progent's qualified network security professionals to resolve urgent security issues. Rates are reasonable, charges are per minute, engagement is quick, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for long-term projects that requires the services of seasoned security engineers with top industry certifications.

In case your Ohio company is located away from more populated urban areas including Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, or Dayton, access to nearby qualified network security experts could be limited during a crisis. This could mean a drop in productivity for your company, angry customers, unproductive employees, and distracted management. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to provide assistance whenever you require it to get your network operating and restore your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to guard your information system with services that ranges from network security assessments to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides affordable support to help businesses of all sizes to set up and maintain safe IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help you to identify and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged resources from being compromised.

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

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.

Progent's certified professionals are accessible online or on site to offer a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services including:

  • Perform automated network security audits
  • Clean up rapidly after serious security breaches
  • Set up and troubleshoot firewalls
  • Configure secure methods for remote and mobile access
  • Deploy effective utilities for protection against spam and DHAs
  • Develop a comprehensive security plan with round-the-clock security monitoring
  • Offer comprehensive Call Center Services
  • Help Create an effective data backup and business continuity solution built around Microsoft DPM automated backup technology
If your business has an immediate need for IT security support, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's support professionals offer world-class services in vital facets of network security that include security assessment, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security planning.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your current computer security implementation by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves you time and money and offers a detailed portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your business gains can form the foundation of a network protection plan that will allow your information system to run safely and react quickly to future risks.

Automated Security Evaluation
Progent offers consulting in the use of security testing packages such as MBSA and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a variety of automatic network auditing scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing tools such as NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools such as SolarWinds, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations, configure auditing tools, define and deploy a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are ready to show you how to set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install VPN. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network security analysis.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an independent security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional runs a system scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to uncover the risk to inside attacks. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a secured remote site. The process is overseen by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and suggests practical improvements where called for.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any successful IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out additional information about Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.

Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in security solutions includes extensive familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of consultants who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices 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 powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help you to manage your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to plan, configure, tune, manage and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection products represent a complete range of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who are able to assist your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business objectives. Read additional information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Products.

Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and medium size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security strategy and select appropriate products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from 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) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult 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: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security program that incorporates both preventive procedures and response plans. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps designed to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack plan assists your company's security personnel to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, repair the system, document the event, and get business functions operational as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified IT security consultants can to help your business to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and define a computer security plan to establish security policies and controls to reduce future assaults and dangers.

CISM Accredited Network Security Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the basic competencies and international standards of skill that IT security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Certified security consultants to help companies with:

  • Information Security Governance
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Information Security Program Management
  • IS Security Administration
  • Response Management
Read additional information about Progent's CISM Certified Information Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of a global standard for data security. ANSI has awarded certification recognition in the area of information security defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a broad range of security areas such as:

  • Security Management Practices
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Solutions and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Data Encryption Technology
  • Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read more information about Progent's CISSP-certified Security Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure System Architecture Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture professionals are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience with information security design. The ISSAP credential represents proven mastery in the more complex demands of IS security architecture bounded by the wider field of information system security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

  • Access Control Systems and Methodologies
  • Telecommunications and Network Protection
  • Encryption/Decryption Options
  • Needs Analysis and Security Standards
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Find out additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Information System Architecture Support Professionals.

CISA Certified Information System Security Auditing Consulting Support
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit engineers are available to help your IT organization with:

  • Information Systems Audit Process
  • IT Governance
  • Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle
  • Information Technology Support
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Get more information concerning Progent's CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Consulting Services.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk management engineers can provide a range of risk assessment services including:

  • Gather information and study documentation to help identify significant vulnerabilities
  • Inventory statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational standards related to your information system to determine their possible influence on your strategic goals
  • Identify possible vulnerabilities for your operational workflows to help in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness program and provide seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate information system risk so they can contribute to your risk management program
  • Match key risk vectors to related business procedures to help determine risk responsibility
  • Validate risk appetite with executive management and major stakeholders to ensure they align
Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants.

GIAC Accredited Network Security Engineering Assistance
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in vital categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC network security audit experts can help your IT organization in the areas of:

Read more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with a Security Engineer
To find out how you can access a security engineer for online or onsite help in Ohio, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.

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