Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with computer security issues, businesses in Napa California can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to offer efficient and affordable help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's top security certifications including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where quick solutions entail big bills.

We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are now faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to see how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a team of seasoned network security experts who offer online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing network protection as well as planning for restoring critical information and systems after an attack demands a continual program involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security experts can help your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any organization ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines activities to help IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, define and build a safe network architecture, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual remote network tracking and fast resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud resources and that comply with government data security requirements. (Learn 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 Platform planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the attack, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend effective ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read 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 Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of IT protection including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a set of automatic network scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Get more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of any size expert support for technologies from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of service that IT security managers are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and knowledge to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your organization in key security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, data protection program control, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security architecture and models, connection control systems, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially assessing your IT control design and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to provide services in critical areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your business is located in Napa California and you need computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the North Bay areas of Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties.