Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security issues, businesses in Tacoma Washington can find high-level expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for critical security and recovery solutions including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick solutions entail major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may take longer to recognize a penetration and are less able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage inside a target's network, the longer it takes to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist businesses to locate and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated 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 Hacked: What Do We Do?
In case your business is currently fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and planning for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to help IT staff to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, create and build a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop online system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage resulting from the breach, restore ordinary functions, and recover information lost owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
At-home employees commonly use their personal devices and usually work in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce support experts can help your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management stack that includes computer learning software and advanced services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be loaded in a few minutes to guard endpoints against modern threats such as ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, RAM exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first EDR response tool activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware breach. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network so you can identify, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out whether your system is currently being targeted across common attack paths. Tripwires generate enough information to make it possible to take action quickly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your 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 existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any comprehensive network security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly configured and actively observed. Progent can provide ongoing automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest versions of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations 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 (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a 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 Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution like 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 unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of critical files, applications, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more 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 capture, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique consulting support in key facets of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Get the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional information concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert support for technologies from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consultants
• Symantec Help

Read more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is situated in Tacoma Washington and you want cybersecurity support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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