Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with data security problems, businesses in Bakersfield California have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are ready to offer efficient and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If your business is now experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection and preparation for recovering critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any organization should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature continual remote network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent 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 rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details 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 capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure 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 common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

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

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Learn more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information security managers are required to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in vital security areas such as information protection governance, risk assessment, data protection program control, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security engineer able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security services addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Bakersfield California and you need computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties.