Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with computer security issues, companies in Carlsbad California have access to expert expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to provide fast and low-cost assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are now experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection plus preparation for restoring critical data and systems after an attack requires a continual program involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified engineers can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information system, from security audits to designing a complete security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any company should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options include automated remote server tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and using other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of managed 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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 related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class consulting support in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive system scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key global security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of service that information security managers are required to master. It provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, information security program control, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the network security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is located in Carlsbad California and you're looking for network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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