Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Winston-Salem North Carolina can find world-class support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer efficient and economical assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class help for critical cybersecurity and restoration solutions including AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, complete system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall technology, email security, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage inside a victim's system, the more time it will require to recover core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to take the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network protection and preparedness for restoring critical information and systems following a security breach requires a continual process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security consultants can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every company should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist security staff to inventory the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their personal computers and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home solutions experts can assist your business to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that guards critical information resources in environments that incorporate remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. In addition to optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT team to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense stack that includes computer learning algorithms and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be loaded in a few minutes to guard endpoints against modern assaults such as ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial EDR response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network to help you expose, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can insert decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to detect whether your environment is currently under attack across key attack paths. Tripwires generate enough detail to allow you to react promptly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can provide continuous autonomous penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files, applications, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family 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 hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited 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 and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique expertise in vital areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Find out more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises 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 network security consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to deliver services in critical areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in Winston-Salem North Carolina and you need cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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