Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Pleasanton California can find expert support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is ready to offer effective and affordable help with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions entail major charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is now fighting a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to find out how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network security and planning for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach requires a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Every organization should develop a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing software, define and build a safe network architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online system tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive 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 offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses 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 Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's 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 machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class support in vital areas of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help your company to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco 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 technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level support for solutions from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that computer security professionals are required to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in key security areas including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection program control, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out more details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security consultant able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in key areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including auditing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is situated in Pleasanton California and you need computer security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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