Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Bakersfield, CA, have access to world-class expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer effective and low-cost help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions entail major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case your business is now fighting a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating network security and staying ready for recovering critical data and systems after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can support your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every company should have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a secure computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature non-stop online network monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features 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 (ASM) 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 deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: 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 provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. 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: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class support in key areas of network protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can assist you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Read additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWALL Support
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information protection governance, risk management, data protection program control, and incident handling support.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CRISC IT Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important areas of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the expertise of certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is situated in Bakersfield or elsewhere in the state of California and you're looking for computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.