Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Beverly Hills California have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall configuration, email security, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your business is currently faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing computer protection plus preparation for restoring vital data and systems after a security breach demands a continual program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at any level in your efforts to protect your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines activities to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and implement a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe remote access to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual remote network tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to focus on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out 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 makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of network protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Learn more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size top-level support for technologies from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to master. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in vital security areas including information protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection process management, and incident response support.

Learn more details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

Read the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified consultants for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Beverly Hills California and you're trying to find computer security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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