Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in Anaheim California have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer effective and affordable help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is currently experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to see how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing computer protection and preparation for recovering vital information and functions after a security breach requires a continual program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at all levels in your attempt to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected remote connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include automated remote network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Solutions
{Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically use their own computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires careful deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in environments that incorporate at-home workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of critical files/folders, applications, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed services in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this second means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. 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 allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and sharing 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 collecting and relating IT data. Whether you�re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide world-class specialized help in vital areas of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Find out more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the core skills and worldwide standards of performance that computer security professionals are required to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, data security process management, and incident response management.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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 an important achievement that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn the details about Progent's CISA Support Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining security policies.

Read additional details about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including assessing security systems, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Anaheim California and you're trying to find network security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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