Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with computer security problems, businesses in Oakland California have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to offer fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute model without minimum times and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case your network is now experiencing a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared in advance for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing computer security and preparation for restoring critical data and systems after an attack requires a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your business at all levels in your attempt to secure your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Every company should develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan specifies activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and build a secure network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote network monitoring and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct a network damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight family of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out 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, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique expertise in vital facets of network protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with testing tools and can assist your company to understand audit results and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Read more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a broad range of security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size expert consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic competencies and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to assist your organization in key security areas including data protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection process control, and crisis response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise 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 consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver services in vital categories of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for any of the security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Oakland California and you want cybersecurity support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Northern California.