Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Reston Virginia have access to high-level expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and economical help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide expert help for key security and recovery solutions such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes turn into big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can manage within a target's system, the longer it takes to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to guide you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help businesses to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are now faced with a security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to learn how to get immediate help. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as preparation for recovering critical data and functions following an attack requires a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can support your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any organization should have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature automated remote system tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and using other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home employees commonly use their own computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home solutions consultants can assist your business to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that guards vital information resources in environments that include remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management stack that includes computer learning software and expert 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 minutes to protect endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, known and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tools, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert so-called tripwires like fake credentials to find out whether your environment is being probed along common attack vectors. Tripwires provide enough detail to make it possible to take action promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can provide ongoing automatic penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, missing patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Evaluation Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. 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 incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of critical files, apps, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends 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 service plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this second form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to 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 making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique specialized help in vital facets of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can help you to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert engineering services for security products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consulting
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to provide services in important areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Reston Virginia and you're looking for network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Greater Washington DC Metro Area including suburban Maryland and Virginia.