Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with data security problems, businesses in Pleasanton California can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email security, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security certifications including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model with no minimum call duration and no additional fees for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is now faced with a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to find out how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing data protection as well as staying ready for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach requires an on-going process involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to guard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can install auditing software, create and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options include automated online network tracking and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT team to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of network monitoring and management 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic 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 Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class expertise in key areas of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with testing utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your organization in key security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP certification following thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in important areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including assessing perimeters, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Pleasanton California and you need cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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