Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Fremont, CA, have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer effective and low-cost assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra fees for setup or after hours service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions entail big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data protection and planning for recovering vital data and functions after an attack requires an on-going program that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization should have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design protected remote access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote server tracking 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 combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also manage a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore a network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-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 incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see 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 business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide world-class expertise in vital facets of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can assist your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Find out additional details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert consulting for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the basic competencies and international standards of performance that information technology security professionals are expected to master. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security process management, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Get more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with 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 network security consultant to assist your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Fremont or anywhere in the state of California and you need network security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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