Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, companies in Pleasanton California can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide effective and low-cost help with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and without extra charges for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions entail big bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to find out how to get fast help. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing data security and planning for recovering vital information and functions after an attack demands a continual program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can help your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Any business should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help security personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an affordable way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop online server monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

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

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the attack, restore normal business operations, and recover information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. 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 recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are 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 data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide unique support in vital facets of IT security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic system scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can help your company to understand audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level consulting for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program management, and incident response management.

Get additional information about Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP certification after thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

Find out the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise.

CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM support professionals for implementing security policies and procedures.

Find out more information about Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in vital areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the support of certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is situated in Pleasanton California and you want network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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