Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Los Angeles Metro Area including Orange County.

To get immediate remote help with data security problems, companies in Irvine, CA, have access to world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are available to offer effective and affordable help with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides online security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
If you are currently faced with a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to find out how to get fast aid. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security as well as planning for recovering critical data and functions after an attack demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can support your organization at any level in your attempt to guard your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business should have a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature automated online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud resources and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security consulting reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is designed 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images/, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud 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 and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization 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 network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are 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 allows you to capture, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you 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 certified engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic system tests to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with testing tools and can assist your company to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Learn additional information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical services 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 integrated services routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Learn additional details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWALL Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the basic skills and worldwide standards of service that computer security managers are required to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in critical security areas including data security governance, vulnerability management, data security program control, and crisis handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Qualified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the services 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 help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-qualified security audit consultant able to help companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide services in important areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as assessing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is located in Irvine or anywhere in California and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.