Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with network security issues, companies in Bakersfield California have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to offer fast and economical help with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple solutions entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
In case you are now faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for a security breech, the formal incident handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing data protection as well as staying ready for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach demands an on-going process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information system, from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a safe network architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe remote access to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual remote system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn 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 provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine 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 OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can assist you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size advanced consulting for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of service that IT security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have earned their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines including data protection governance, risk management, data protection process control, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in key categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is situated in Bakersfield California and you need cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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