Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security problems, businesses in Chatsworth California have access to world-class expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to offer fast and affordable help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail major charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your network is now fighting a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing data protection and preparedness for restoring critical data and functions following an attack demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every company should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to help security personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, create and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote server tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read 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 from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class support in vital areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with scanning tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Get additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert consulting for security products from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that computer security managers are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM possess the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in vital security areas such as data security governance, risk assessment, data protection process management, and incident handling support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Read more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to provide services in key areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is situated in Chatsworth California and you need network security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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