Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Pleasanton California have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer fast and economical help with security crises that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's billing structure keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is currently fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data security and planning for recovering vital information and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security engineers can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Every company ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include continual remote network tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and retrieve information lost as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing 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 offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn 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 service that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique specialized help in vital areas of computer security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Learn the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes top-level engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and international standards of service that information technology security professionals are required to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program management, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous testing and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises 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 cybersecurity expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide services in important categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your company is located in Pleasanton California and you want computer security consulting, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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