Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security issues, companies in Petaluma California have access to world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide effective and economical help with security issues that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including CISA and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick solutions entail big charges.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are currently faced with a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to find out how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data security as well as planning for restoring critical data and systems after an attack demands an on-going process involving an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your IT system, ranging from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Any company should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies activities to assist IT staff to assess the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature automated online system tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your 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 and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates 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 combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small 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. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn 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 create, update, find and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide unique expertise in vital areas of network security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also can perform web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Get additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn the details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced consulting for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
CISM defines the basic skills and worldwide benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified support professional to help your organization in vital security areas including data security governance, risk management, information security program management, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, connection permission systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have been awarded ISSAP status after rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional able to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the knowledge needed to deliver services in important categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification 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 organization is situated in Petaluma California and you need network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go 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.