Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with network security problems, companies in Oakland California can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to provide efficient and economical help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's top security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple solutions entail big bills.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is now experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Help to see how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of certified network security specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For organizations who have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing data security plus preparation for recovering vital information and functions following an attack requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your information network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to assess the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning software, create and execute a safe computer architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include automated remote system tracking and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, 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 provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore a network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost 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 aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture 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 filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business 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 IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class expertise in key facets of computer security such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can help you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Find out more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more information about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level support for security products from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

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

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the basic competencies and international standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in key security areas including information protection governance, risk assessment, data security process management, and incident handling management.

Learn the details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Assistance.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have earned ISSAP status following thorough examination and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms 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 specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 network security expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that indicates mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace 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 network risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide support in vital categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Support
If your company is situated in Oakland California and you're trying to find network security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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