Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with network security issues, companies in Beverly Hills California have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no extra fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to learn how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses that have planned carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection and planning for restoring critical information and functions following a security breach demands an on-going effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information system, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and build a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected remote access to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may take longer to become aware of a break-in and are less able to organize a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage within a target's network, the longer it will require to restore core IT services and scrambled files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist you to locate and isolate infected devices and protect undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their personal devices and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home solutions experts can assist your business to design, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in networks that include at-home workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

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 leading information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn the details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of protection technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international standards of performance that computer security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security areas including data security governance, vulnerability management, data protection process control, and incident response support.

Get additional details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Find out more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IS management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

Get more information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Read more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Beverly Hills California and you want cybersecurity expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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