Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online help with data security issues, companies in Chatsworth California have access to expert support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to provide effective and economical help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions entail big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is now faced with a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to learn how to get fast assistance. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing network security plus planning for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach demands an on-going program that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information system, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every company should have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, define and implement a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic 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 ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within 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 Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client 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 requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique support in key areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level support for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that information security managers are required to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to help your organization in vital security areas including data protection governance, risk management, data protection process management, and crisis response management.

Get more information about Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get additional details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status after thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Read additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit professional able to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

Learn more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

Learn more details about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Management Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to provide services in vital areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the support of certified security engineers for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as auditing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is situated in Chatsworth California and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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