Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with network security problems, businesses in Monterey California have access to expert troubleshooting from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security crises that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISA and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes result in big expenses.

We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If your business is now experiencing a security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Help to learn how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned in advance for being hacked, the formal incident handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security plus staying ready for recovering critical data and functions following a security breach requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Some technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, define and execute a safe network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature continual remote server monitoring and immediate 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 hosted resources and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the assault, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve information compromised owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and recovery expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more 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, maintain, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class consulting support in vital areas of IT security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Get more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes expert engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are expected to master. It offers business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to provide effective security management and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in vital security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and crisis response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and models, connection control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
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 maintain IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading 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 a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide services in critical categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of certified security engineers for any of the network security services covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Monterey California and you need computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.