Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Irvine California can find expert troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra fees for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids situations where quick solutions turn into big bills.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are now faced with a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help to learn how to get fast help. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For companies who have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer security and preparation for restoring critical information and systems after a security breach requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified consultants can support your business at any level in your efforts to secure your IT network, from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and implement a secure network architecture, and propose processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include automated online server monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an IT network victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses 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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

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 data security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class expertise in key areas of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with scanning utilities and can assist you to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Learn the details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes top-level consulting for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that information security professionals are expected to master. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, data security process management, and incident response support.

Learn more information about Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Get more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs according to security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic 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 Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

Get the details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Expertise.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of certified consultants for all of the network security disciplines covered under GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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

Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your business is located in Irvine California and you're looking for computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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