Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in San Jose California can find world-class support by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer effective and economical help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security credentials including GIAC and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security support on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where simple solutions result in major expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is now experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast help. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For organizations that have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network security and preparedness for restoring vital information and functions following an attack demands an on-going program that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified experts can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to protect your information system, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Options feature automated online server tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital files, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, 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 an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With 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 managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details 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, update, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide world-class specialized help in vital facets of IT security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus portable devices. Get additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size expert consulting for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information security program management, and crisis response management.

Get more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read the details about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

Get the details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management 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 design, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

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GIAC Support Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in San Jose California and you're trying to find computer security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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