Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with computer security issues, businesses in San Jose, CA, have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to provide effective and economical help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes turn into major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently faced with a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who offer online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future attacks.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security as well as staying ready for recovering critical data and systems following an attack demands a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist security staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and build a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature non-stop online server monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine 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 DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class expertise in key facets of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can help you to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Find out more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete range of security and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read additional details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level consulting for products from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Services
CISM identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, information protection program control, and incident response management.

Find out more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status following rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Get more details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies.

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GIAC Support Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing security systems, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is located in San Jose or elsewhere in the state of California and you want cybersecurity consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Northern California.