Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with computer security problems, businesses in Schaumburg Illinois can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to provide efficient and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital security and restoration technologies including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and at night, when IT personnel are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve within a target's system, the more time it takes to restore core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your network is currently fighting a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to see how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach requires an on-going program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can support your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature non-stop online network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
At-home employees typically utilize their personal computers and often operate in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter support consultants can help you to plan, deploy and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that includes AI algorithms and advanced services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be installed in a few minutes to defend popular endpoints against modern cyberthreats such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial EDR response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware breach. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can expose, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires such as fake credentials to detect whether your network is currently under attack across high-risk attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to allow you to react promptly with your incident response workflows before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, missing patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to the latest strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses 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 Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of important files, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup 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 filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class consulting support in key areas of computer security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Get more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level consulting for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Expertise
• Check Point Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Engineering Services
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional has the skills needed to provide services in vital areas of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Schaumburg Illinois and you want computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Chicago Metro Area.