Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Plano Texas can find high-level troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide efficient and economical help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class guidance for key cybersecurity and recovery solutions such as AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick fixes result in big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when support staff may be slower to recognize a breach and are least able to mount a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve inside a target's system, the longer it will require to recover 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 guide organizations to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist you to locate and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being compromised. If your system has been breached 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 Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for a security breach, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist IT staff to assess the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing software, create and build a secure network architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature continual remote network tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Solutions
At-home workers commonly utilize their own computers and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce support experts can help you to design, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in networks that include remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management stack that features computer learning algorithms and advanced services to deliver comprehensive 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 threats such as ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the initial EDR response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your network so you can identify, rank, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to detect whether your network is currently being targeted along various attack vectors. Tripwires provide enough detail to allow you to take action 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 help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic penetration testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more 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 makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide unique support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can help your company to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Engineering Services
• Check Point Software Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important areas of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Plano Texas and you need network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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