Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, companies in Bakersfield California have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to provide fast and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in big bills.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer protection and preparedness for recovering vital data and functions after an attack requires a continual program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to help security staff to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, create and execute a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop online system tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and restoration services.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to 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 focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Read 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs 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 network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide unique consulting support in key areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced consulting for security products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information security professionals are expected to master. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and crisis response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes 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 efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in key categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is located in Bakersfield California and you're looking for cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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