Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with data security problems, companies in Hayward California have access to expert expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to provide effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, secure system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to find out how to get immediate help. Progent has a team of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing network security and preparation for recovering critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Networks
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and execute a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and install an effective VPN.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online server monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises 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 offers skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or contain new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical 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 set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
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 centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. 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 allows you to create, maintain, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure 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 gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide unique specialized help in vital areas of network security including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Get additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced support for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM possess the background and knowledge to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in vital security areas such as information security governance, risk assessment, data protection process control, and crisis response management.

Find out additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in key areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your business is situated in Hayward California and you want network security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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