Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with network security problems, businesses in Virginia Beach Virginia can find high-level expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer effective and affordable assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for vital security and recovery technologies including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when support staff may take longer to become aware of a breach and are least able to organize a rapid and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve within a victim's network, the longer it takes to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to complete the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your network is now faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security posture to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for a security breach, the step-by-step incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating data protection as well as preparation for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can help your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to help IT personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include automated remote network tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Consulting
Work-from-Home workers commonly utilize their own devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter support experts can help you to design, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat defense platform that includes computer learning algorithms and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern assaults including ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first endpoint response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated assessment of your network to help you identify, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to detect whether your environment is being probed along high-risk attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to allow you to take action quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can do serious damage. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can provide ongoing automatic PEN testing to map your internal and external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, skipped patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products automate and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid restoration of important files/folders, apps, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

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 uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn 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, update, retrieve and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out more details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size top-level support for solutions from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consultants
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Professional Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in vital areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Virginia Beach Virginia and you're trying to find network security engineering help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Hampton Roads Area.