Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with data security issues, companies in The Woodlands Texas have access to high-level expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class support for key cybersecurity and recovery solutions such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes result in big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel are likely to be slower to recognize a penetration and are least able to organize a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to achieve within a target's system, the longer it takes to restore core IT services and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to guide organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist businesses to identify and isolate breached devices and guard undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your system 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.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for a security breach, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security as well as staying ready for restoring vital data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going effort involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security assessments to creating a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes 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 secure online and mobile access to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include continual online network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry 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 (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed because of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
At-home employees commonly utilize their own computing devices and often operate in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of at-home workforce support experts can assist your business to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that guards vital information resources in environments that incorporate remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management platform that features AI software and advanced services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the initial EDR response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware breach. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing 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 to help you expose, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to find out when your network is actively being targeted along common attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to make it possible to take action quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your 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, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's internal network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can provide ongoing automatic penetration testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and unsound product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS 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 (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and monitor your backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of important files/folders, applications, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited 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 and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this added form of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted looking for 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 recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of IT security such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help you to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important worldwide security standards including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Read additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Engineering Services
• Symantec Corp Help

Get additional details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Read the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

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

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

Read the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to provide support in important categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in The Woodlands Texas and you're looking for cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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