Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with computer security issues, businesses in Sarasota Florida can find high-level troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class guidance for vital security and recovery solutions like AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to recover basic IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to take the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and quarantine infected devices and guard undamaged resources 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 Should We Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data security and preparation for recovering vital information and systems after an attack demands an on-going process involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any company should develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include automated online network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory 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 enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of Work-from-home solutions consultants can assist your business to plan, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects vital information resources in environments that include an at-home workforce as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management platform that includes AI algorithms and professional services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be installed in minutes to guard popular endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first endpoint response software activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can insert so-called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out whether your network is actively under attack along high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to make it possible to react promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like 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 Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and track your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, applications, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn 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 allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network tests to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Find out additional details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more details about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

Get additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Sarasota Florida and you're looking for computer security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support in metropolitan Orlando and Tampa Florida.