Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in Carlsbad, CA, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple fixes entail big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your business is currently faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer security as well as planning for recovering vital data and functions following an attack demands an on-going process involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security personnel to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature automated online network tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the breach, return your company to normal functions, and recover information lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer unique consulting support in vital areas of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network technologies including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas such as data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and incident handling management.

Get more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP certification through verified experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more information about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following thorough testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to provide support in important categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Carlsbad or elsewhere in California and you're trying to find network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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