Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with computer security issues, businesses in San Jose California have access to world-class expertise from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple solutions entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do?
If you are currently faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to learn how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Services
Managing computer security plus staying ready for recovering vital data and systems after an attack demands an on-going process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a secure computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected remote access to email and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages include non-stop online system monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud infrastructure and that comply with regulatory security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and using other proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to rebuild an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see 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 or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network 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, maintain, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class support in key facets of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can assist you to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Find out more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size advanced consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their certification possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in critical security disciplines such as data security governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and incident handling support.

Get additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, access control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional details about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help companies in the fields of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

Find out additional details about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in key areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in San Jose California and you want cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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