Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Webster Texas can find world-class expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver expert support for key security and restoration solutions like AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of consulting services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way across a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are commonly unleashed on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may be slower to recognize a break-in and are less able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware can achieve inside a victim's network, the more time it will require to restore basic IT services and damaged files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to identify and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are now fighting a network security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to receive fast help. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have planned in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating data security as well as preparation for recovering critical information and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your organization at any level in your efforts to guard your information system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and build a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature automated remote network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their own computing devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of Work-from-home solutions consultants can help your business to plan, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving information system. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that includes AI algorithms and professional services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be installed in minutes to defend endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial incident response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware breach. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your network so you can find, rank, fix, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can insert decoys called tripwires such as fake credentials to detect whether your system is being probed across various attack paths. Tripwires provide enough information to allow you to take action quickly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently observed. Progent can provide ongoing automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation 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) managed services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files/folders, applications, system images, and VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more 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 allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of IT protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can help you to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Find out additional information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Help

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to provide support in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is located in Webster Texas and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Houston Metro Area.