Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Sydney New South Wales have access to high-level expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide effective and economical help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital cybersecurity and restoration solutions such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute model without minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and at night, when support personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a break-in and are less able to organize a rapid and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make inside a target's system, the longer it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and protect undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If you are currently experiencing a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection plus preparedness for restoring vital data and systems following an attack requires a continual process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified consultants can help your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated remote network monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically utilize their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to design, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT assets in environments that incorporate remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that includes AI software and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern assaults including ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first incident response software activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can identify, rank, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert decoys called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to detect when your system is actively being probed along common attack paths. Tripwires provide enough information to make it possible to take action quickly with your incident response workflows before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, missing patches, and dangerous product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered 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: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this added form of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common 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 offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software validation and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Expertise
• Check Point Software Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Integration
• Symantec Engineering Services

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in vital areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification topics including auditing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is situated in Sydney New South Wales and you need network security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the greater Sydney metro area.