Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with computer security problems, companies in Beverly Hills California can find world-class support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, email security, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple fixes entail major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If your network is currently faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to find out how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned carefully for an attack, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating network security and planning for recovering critical data and functions after a security breach demands an on-going program involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design safe remote access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature continual online network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an IT network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets 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 service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. 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
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn 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 uses the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more details 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, update, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide unique consulting support in key areas of computer security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes expert support for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your enterprise in critical security areas including data security governance, risk management, information protection program management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to provide support in key categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Beverly Hills California and you want network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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