Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Tampa Florida have access to high-level troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced help for critical security and recovery solutions like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions entail big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage inside a target's network, the longer it takes to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and isolate breached devices and protect clean resources from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer security plus preparedness for recovering critical information and functions following a security breach requires an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security consultants can support your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist security personnel to assess the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature automated online system monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Solutions
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical space. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of telecommuter solutions consultants can help your business to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in environments that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense stack that features AI software and advanced services to provide comprehensive 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 cyberthreats such as ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the first endpoint response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can insert so-called tripwires like fake credentials to detect when your system is actively under attack along common attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to allow you to react promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and consistently observed. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous penetration testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of vital files/folders, apps, images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

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 business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class consulting support in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad skills with scanning utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Read additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

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

Get more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of 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 organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IS management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in vital categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Tampa Florida and you're looking for computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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