Small business computer networks in the state of Texas now have fast and economical remote access to Progent's accredited security consultants to fix urgent security problems. The cost is reasonable, charges are per minute, sign-up is quick, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for complex engagements that demand the expertise of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.

If your Texas office is based outside of major metropolitan areas such as Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Austin, Fort Worth, or El Paso, the availability of nearby certified security professionals is often problematic when there's a security disaster. This can result in lost revenue for your company, angry customers, idle workers, and defocused executives. By calling Progent, you have access to a Premier security engineer ready to offer expertise when you have to have it to get your information system running and recover your information.

Progent can assist you at any level in your efforts to guard your information system with support services ranging from network security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers economical support to help companies of any size to design and maintain protected IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX or Linux operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone devices.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to locate and quarantine breached devices and protect undamaged resources from being compromised.

If your system has been penetrated by any version 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 help you outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter.

Progent's certified professionals are available online or on site to offer a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services including:

If your business has an urgent need for computer security help, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help.

Progent's consultants can deliver advanced support in vital areas of network security that include security evaluation, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security planning.

System Assessment
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the strength of your existing computer protection systems by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis via advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's skill in administering this service saves your company money and offers an objective picture of gaps. The knowledge your business gains can make up the basis of a security strategy that can allow your network to operate dependably and adapt rapidly to future threats.

Automated Security Evaluation
Progent offers expertise in the use of security evaluation packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for economically running a set of automatic network auditing scans to identify potential security weaknesses. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities such as SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you build security into your company operations, install scanning tools, define and implement a protected network architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more concerning Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning bundles intended to enable small companies to get an impartial security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers an extensive test of your network from beyond your company firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional runs a network scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to internal assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected external location. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned high-level security credentials and who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the information captured by the scan and suggests practical remediation where called for.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Security Assessment Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Network Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Find out additional information about Progent's stealth security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's background in network security solutions includes in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network products from a variety of vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Fortinet. Progent can provide the services of consultants with key industry certifications including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new installations. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help your company to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, integrate, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional details about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and VPN Support Services
Cisco's network security and remote access technology provide a full range of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business objectives. Read more information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Products.

Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and choose appropriate products from a variety of vendors to support your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Design
Every company ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive processes and response plans. The pre-attack strategy is a set of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive plan assists your IT security personnel to assess the impact resulting from an attack, fix the damage, document the event, and get business functions running as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security consultants can to assist you to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and create a company-wide security plan to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Accredited System Security Consulting Services
The CISM committee describes the core competencies and worldwide standards of skill that IT security managers are required to learn. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM certification possess the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and support services. Progent can provide the services of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:

  • Network Security Strategies
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Program Management
  • IS Security Administration
  • Recovery Management
Find out more details concerning Progent's CISM Qualified Security Engineering Services.

CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Services
CISSP denotes mastery of an international standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your enterprise in a broad range of security fields including:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Systems and Methodology
  • Applications Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Cryptography Mechanisms
  • Telecom, Network and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn additional information about Progent's CISSP Accredited Security Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with network security design. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated mastery in the most complex requirements of information system security architecture within the wider field of information system security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecommunications and Network Security
  • Data Encryption Solutions
  • Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
  • BCP and DRP
  • Physical Security
Read more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit specialists are available to assist your IT organization with:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
  • IT Support
  • Safeguarding Information Resources
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Get more information concerning Progent's CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Engineering Support.

CRISC Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation experts offer a range of risk identification services including:

  • Collect data and study documentation to identify major vulnerabilities
  • Identify legal, industry, and contractual mandates and organizational policies related to your information system to assess their potential impact on your strategic goals
  • Point out possible threats for your business processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can assist with your risk management program
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to related operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Validate risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they align
Learn additional details about Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants.

GIAC Accredited Network Security Engineering Support
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in vital areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC security audit specialists can help your business with:

Learn additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with a Security Engineer
To see how you can access a Progent security engineer for online or onsite assistance in Texas, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Help.

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