Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with computer security problems, businesses in Beverly Hills California can find world-class expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer fast and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital cybersecurity and restoration solutions like AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad range of services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when support personnel may be slower to become aware of a breach and are least able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware can achieve inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help you to complete the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged resources from being penetrated. 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.

We've Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case you are currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security posture to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned in advance for a security breach, the step-by-step incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer security plus preparation for restoring critical data and systems after an attack requires a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can support your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop remote server tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Solutions
Work-from-Home staff members typically utilize their own computing devices and usually work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of telecommuter support experts can help your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical IT assets in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense stack that features computer learning software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be installed in minutes to guard endpoints against increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats such as ransomware, known and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first incident response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, automated testing of your network so you can uncover, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out when your system is actively being targeted across proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to take action quickly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently observed. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of modern variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Evaluation Experts.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of outsourced network 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products automate and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of important files/folders, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets you protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or application glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to determine which of these managed backup services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this added form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register several validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming 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
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class support in key areas of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with testing utilities and can help you to analyze audit results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert consulting for solutions from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Configuration Help
• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Engineering Services
• Symantec Corp Help

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of 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 knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified 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 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 help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for designing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver support in critical areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Beverly Hills California and you want cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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