Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with network security issues, businesses in Irvine, CA, have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services covers firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent provides remote security help on a per-minute model with no minimum times and without extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions entail major charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to receive fast help. Progent has a pool of veteran network security specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the formal incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer security as well as staying ready for restoring vital information and functions following a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can help your business at any level in your attempt to secure your information network, from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to assess the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a safe computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote server tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover information lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like 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 provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware 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 expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services 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 filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of network security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Read the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting services for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
As well as being expert in a wide array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size advanced engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core competencies and international benchmarks of service that IT security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the background and skill to offer effective security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to help your organization in key security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of 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 network security consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide support in critical areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including auditing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Irvine or elsewhere in California and you're trying to find network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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