Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote assistance with data security problems, companies in Beverly Hills California have access to world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security support services on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently fighting a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data protection as well as preparation for recovering critical information and functions following an attack demands an on-going program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT system, from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help IT staff to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install auditing software, define and build a secure computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile access to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature continual remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
At-home workers commonly use their own computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter solutions consultants can assist you to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that guards critical information resources in environments that incorporate at-home workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the security and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of managed services is intended 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of vital files/folders, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.

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 infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide unique consulting support in key areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in key security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services.

CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

Read more details about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver support in key categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of certified professionals for any of the network security services covered within GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in Beverly Hills California and you're looking for computer security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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