Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Beverly Hills California can find expert support by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and economical assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where simple fixes entail major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have prepared in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network security and planning for recovering critical information and functions following an attack demands an on-going program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to help security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and implement a safe computer architecture, and propose procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual online network tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an information system victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their personal computers and usually work in a unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of Work-from-home solutions consultants can assist you to plan, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical information assets in networks that include at-home workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your ever-evolving IT system. Besides maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of critical files/folders, apps, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss caused by hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious employees, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify 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 filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you�re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique specialized help in vital areas of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Read more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as supporting a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level support for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Services
CISM defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, risk management, data security program control, and crisis handling support.

Learn additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the skills necessary to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified consultants for any of the security services covered under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is located in Beverly Hills California and you need computer security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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