Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast online assistance with network security problems, companies in Hayward California can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where simple solutions turn into major charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now experiencing a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing network security as well as preparedness for restoring vital data and systems following an attack demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and implement a secure network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security breach. Progent can help assess the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your computer network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Read more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out 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 provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. 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 filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more 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 create, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class expertise in vital facets of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Learn additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that computer security managers are expected to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your organization in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and incident response management.

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

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise.

CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver support in vital categories of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Read more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is situated in Hayward California and you want cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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