Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast online help with network security issues, companies in Oakland, CA, have access to expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide efficient and economical help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions result in major expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to find out how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of handling a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing computer security as well as preparedness for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires a continual process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your efforts to safeguard your IT network, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to help IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages include non-stop remote system monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud resources and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the damage caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up 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 like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced defense 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 most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic 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 ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to 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 associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer unique expertise in key areas of IT security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can help you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment plus mobile devices. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Read more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security professionals are required to master. It offers business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your enterprise in critical security areas such as information security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process management, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification after thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help companies in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to plan, implement, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant has the skills appropriate to deliver services in key areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation topics including assessing networks, incident handling, traffic analysis, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Oakland or elsewhere in California and you need computer security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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