Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online assistance with computer security problems, businesses in Hayward California have access to world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer fast and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security engineers are certified to support environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
In case you are currently fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection plus planning for restoring critical information and functions following an attack requires a continual program that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your information network, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every company should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and implement a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include automated online server monitoring and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct a network compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price 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 state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed 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 hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class expertise in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these utilities and can assist your company to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Find out more information about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get more information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert engineering services for products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program management, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status 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 security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized qualification that indicates expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing networks, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Hayward California and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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