Business computer networks in South Carolina can now get quick and affordable online technical support from Progent's accredited network security engineers to resolve critical security issues. Rates are reasonable, charges are by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that demand the knowledge of senior security consultants with top security credentials.

If your South Carolina network is located some distance from larger metropolitan areas like Columbia, Charleston, Rock Hill, or Greenville, contact with local qualified network security experts is often problematic when you have an urgent situation. This can result in lost revenue for your company, angry customers, unproductive workers, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's online services, you have access to a Certified security engineer who can provide expertise when you have to have it to keep your information system operating and salvage your data.

Progent can help you in your initiatives to guard your network with support ranging from security assessments to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent offers economical support to help businesses of all sizes to design and manage safe networks powered by Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus mobile clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to locate and isolate infected devices and guard clean assets from being compromised.

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

Introduction to Progent's IT Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam filtering and protection from email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified consultants are accessible remotely or on premises to provide a range of urgent or project-based computer security services including:

  • Perform automated security audits
  • Recuperate rapidly after attacks
  • Install firewalls from multiple vendors
  • Implement secure solutions for offsite and mobile connectivity
  • Deploy advanced applications for protection against spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Help create a comprehensive security plan with round-the-clock monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Call Center Services
  • Create a practical data backup and business continuity plan based on Data Protection Manager (DPM) backup capability
If your network has an immediate need for IT security help, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help.

Progent's engineers offer world-class support in key facets of system protection that include analysis, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security consulting.

System Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the strength of your existing computer security implementation through exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves you consulting fees and assures an accurate portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the foundation of a security plan that will allow your information system to operate dependably and respond rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the use of security testing packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for affordably performing a variety of automatic system auditing checks to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with additional security analysis products including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you design protection into your company processes, install auditing applications, plan and implement a secure network environment, and suggest policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to show you how to set up a firewall, implement secure remote access to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more concerning Progent's automated security evaluation.

Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small businesses to receive an objective network security evaluation from a qualified security expert. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a comprehensive test of your network from outside your firewall to uncover possible risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to determine the risk to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected remote location. The project is managed by a consultant with top security credentials and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information captured by the scan and suggests practical improvements where called for.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently checked. Learn more on Progent's network security penetration analysis support services.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN products offered by a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Fortinet. Progent can provide the support of engineers who have earned important networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help your company to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, deploy, tune, manage and debug firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower configuration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Services
Cisco's security and remote access products represent a full line of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your company objectives. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security and VPN Products.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and medium size businesses expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security strategy and choose appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines 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 set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With 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 moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Design
Every company should have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive procedures and reaction planning. The proactive strategy is a set of steps designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive plan helps your IT security personnel to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, repair the network, document the event, and get business functions running as soon as feasible.

Progent's expert IT security engineers can to assist your company to run a full risk assessment and create a company-wide security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing assaults and threats.

CISM Certified System Security Engineering Expertise
The CISM committee describes the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It gives business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the background and capability to provide efficient security management and support services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to help companies with:

  • Network Security Processes
  • Vulnerability Analysis
  • Information Security Program Management
  • IS Security Management
  • Response Planning
Find out additional details concerning Progent's CISM Certified IS Security Support Services.

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Expertise
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of an international standard for network security. ANSI has awarded certification recognition in the area of information security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent offers access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your company in a variety security fields including:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Control Systems and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Cryptography Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Qualified Information Security Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous testing and extensive work with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification indicates proven competence in the most complex demands of information system security architecture bounded by the broader scope of IS security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and System Infrastructure Protection
  • Encryption/Decryption Solutions
  • Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
  • Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Site Security
Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Professionals.

CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit engineers are available to help your business with:

  • Information Systems Audit Services
  • Information Technology Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • Information Technology Support
  • Safeguarding Data Assets
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn more details about Progent's CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Assistance.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation specialists offer a range of risk evaluation services including:

  • Collect data and study documentation to identify significant vulnerabilities
  • Identify legal, regulatory, and business mandates and company standards associated with your network to assess their possible impact on your business objectives
  • Point out potential threats for your business workflows to help in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to ensure your stakeholders appreciate information system risk so they can contribute to your risk control program
  • Match key risk vectors to related operational procedures to help determine risk responsibility
  • Determine risk appetite with executive leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they align
Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts.

GIAC Qualified Security Engineering Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver services in key areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit engineers can help your IT organization in the areas of:

  • Auditing IT Infrastructure
  • Incident Handling
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web-based Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with a Security Specialist
To see how to contact a certified security consultant for online or onsite support in South Carolina, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Help.

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