Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with network security issues, businesses in Monterey California have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide fast and affordable help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's most advanced security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute model without minimum times and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in major charges.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are now fighting a network security crisis, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of certified network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating data protection as well as preparedness for recovering vital information and systems after an attack demands a continual effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at any level in your attempt to guard your information network, from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing software, define and implement a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature continual remote system tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more 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, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. 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. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class support in key areas of computer protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can assist you to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Read more details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as data security governance, risk management, data security program management, and incident response support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, access control systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise 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 cybersecurity expert to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to provide support in critical areas of network, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is located in Monterey California and you need network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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