Business IT networks in the state of Virginia can now get fast and affordable online access to Progent's accredited network security engineers to help with the toughest security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is by the minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that requires the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top security credentials.

If your Virginia small business is located outside of more populated metropolitan areas including Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Richmond, or Arlington, help from nearby accredited network security consultants could be problematic when there's a crisis. This could mean a drop in productivity for your company, upset clients, unproductive employees, and defocused management. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security professional who can offer help whenever you need it to keep your network operating and restore your information.

Progent can help you in your efforts to guard your information system with support services ranging from network security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to help small and midsize companies to configure and manage secure networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms plus mobile clients with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's IT Security Expertise
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that uses the technology of top data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified engineers are available remotely or on site to provide a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services which include:

If your network has an immediate requirement for computer security help, go to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help.

Progent's security experts offer world-class services in key facets of computer security that include security evaluation, firewall and VPN expertise, and high-level security consulting.

System Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing network protection environment through exhaustive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and proven procedures. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company consulting fees and assures an objective picture of gaps. The knowledge your IT organization gains can be used as the foundation of a security plan that will allow your information system to run safely and adapt rapidly to new risks.

Automated Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent offers expertise in the use of security analysis products including MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a set of automatic network testing scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with other network auditing tools such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities like SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can help you design security into your business processes, install scanning applications, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more about Progent's automated security audits.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning bundles designed to enable small companies to get a professional security evaluation from a qualified security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to uncover the risk to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by a consultant with top security credentials and who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the scan and proposes practical improvements if called for.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, rank, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Intrusion Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any serious network security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are correctly set up and actively checked. Find out additional information on Progent's stealth penetration testing support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's background in network security technology encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of consultants who have earned key networking accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more value than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new deployments. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help your company to manage your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your business to design, configure, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Services
Cisco's security and remote access products offer a complete range of manageable security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who are able to help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align best with your business goals. Learn additional information about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and choose appropriate products from multiple suppliers to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Planning
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive processes and response planning. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy helps your company's network security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by a security penetration, repair the damage, document the event, and get business functions running as soon as feasible.

Progent's expert information security engineers are available to help your company to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and create a computer security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Qualified System Security Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that information security professionals are required to learn. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to assist companies with:

  • Information Security Processes
  • Risk Management
  • Information Security Implementation Management
  • Information Security Administration
  • Response Management
Find out more information about Progent's CISM Accredited Security Engineering Professionals.

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI has awarded certification recognition in the field of data protection defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your business in a variety security areas including:

  • Security Management Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Solutions and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Site Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out additional information about Progent's CISSP Qualified Network Security Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification through thorough testing and significant experience with information security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven competence in the most in-depth demands of information system security architecture bounded by the broader field of information security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

  • Access Management Systems and Techniques
  • Phone System and Network Protection
  • Data Encryption Options
  • Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Hardware Security
Find out additional details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Expertise.

CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA IS security audit engineers can help your company in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Governance
  • Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
  • Information Technology Service Delivery
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Get more details about Progent's CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Engineering Expertise.

CRISC Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-certified IT risk management experts offer a range of risk evaluation services such as:

  • Gather data and study documentation to help identify significant risk scenarios
  • Inventory legal, industry, and business mandates and organizational policies related to your information system to determine their potential influence on your strategic objectives
  • Point out possible vulnerabilities for your operational processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Create a risk awareness program and provide seminars to ensure your organization appreciate IT risk so they can assist with your risk management program
  • Match identified risk scenarios to related business procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk appetite with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they align
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Experts.

GIAC Qualified Security Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to provide support in key categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified network security audit experts can help your IT organization with:

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

Contact a Security Specialist
To find out how to get in touch with a Progent security engineer for remote or onsite help in Virginia, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Computer Help.

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