Business IT networks in the state of California can now get prompt and economical remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security experts to help with the toughest security issues. The cost is affordable, charges are per minute, sign-up is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for long-term engagements that demand the services of senior security engineers with top industry certifications.
If your California business is outside of major urban neighborhoods including Los Angeles, San Jose, San Francisco, or Sacramento, support from local accredited network security consultants could be problematic when there's an urgent situation. This could mean a loss of income for your business, upset clients, unproductive employees, and distracted management. By calling Progent, you have access to a Premier security engineer ready to deliver assistance whenever you have to have it to get your network operating and restore your information.
Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your efforts to protect your network with services ranging from security assessments to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent offers affordable support to help companies of any size to design and maintain secure IT environments based on Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect clean resources from being compromised.
If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter.
Progent's certified professionals are available remotely or on site to provide a variety of emergency or longer-term network security services such as:
Progent's support professionals offer advanced services in key fields of computer security that include security evaluation, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.
System Security Assessment
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the strength of your current network security systems by performing comprehensive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves your company time and money and offers an objective picture of system vulnerability. The information your IT organization gains can form the foundation of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to run safely and adapt rapidly to new risks.
Automated Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides consulting in the application of security analysis utilities such as MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically performing a set of programmed system auditing checks to uncover possible security weaknesses. Progent has extensive knowledge of other network analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, plus tools such as Metasploit, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and respond appropriately.
Progent can help you design security into your business operations, install auditing tools, plan and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security engineers are available to show you how to configure a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Find out more on Progent's network security analysis.
Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation bundles designed to allow small companies to receive an objective security evaluation from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine possible risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer executes a network scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to evaluate your exposure to internal attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a protected remote location. The project is managed by an engineer with high-level security accreditations and who produces a report that details and analyzes the data captured by the security scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if appropriate.
Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.
Stealth Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's network security penetration testing support services.
Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's expertise in security solutions encompasses extensive familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network products from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent offers the support of consultants with important industry certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new deployments. Following Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your company to plan, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging support.
Cisco Security and VPN Consulting Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite access technology provide a complete line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your organization to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your business objectives. Read additional information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Products.
Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate products from multiple vendors to support your security objectives while staying within your budget restraints.
Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Network Security Consulting
Every company ought to develop a carefully considered security program that includes both pre-attack procedures and response plans. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive plan assists your security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, fix the network, document the experience, and get business functions operational as soon as possible.
Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to assist your company to run a complete vulnerability evaluation and define a company-wide security strategy to implement security processes and controls to mitigate future assaults and threats.
CISM Qualified Network Security Engineering Services
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:
CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Assistance
The CISSP credential denotes expertise with an international standard for information security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded certification accreditation in the field of information security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security professionals who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a broad range of security areas including:
CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status through thorough examination and extensive work with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated skill in the most challenging demands of information security architecture within the broader field of IS security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.
CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified network security audit specialists can assist your company in the areas of:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create 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 tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk mitigation engineers can provide a range of risk evaluation services including:
GIAC Qualified IS Security Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills necessary to provide services in vital areas of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC IS security audit engineers can assist your IT organization with:
Contact a Certified Progent Security Specialist
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