Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security problems, companies in Chatsworth California can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure system design, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions result in major bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If you are currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data protection and preparedness for restoring vital information and functions following a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, create and execute a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include continual online server monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their own computers and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to malware threats and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of at-home workforce solutions experts can help you to design, implement and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a family of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of important files/folders, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or application bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique support in key areas of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Get the details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in key security disciplines including information security governance, risk assessment, information protection program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP status after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in vital areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is located in Chatsworth California and you're trying to find network security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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