Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with data security problems, companies in Petaluma, CA, have access to expert support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service staff is available to offer fast and affordable help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall technology, email security, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail major expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is now experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Network Help to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned network security specialists who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection plus planning for restoring critical data and systems following an attack demands an on-going effort involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified engineers can assist your organization at whatever level in your efforts to protect your IT system, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any business should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, define and implement a secure network infrastructure, and recommend procedures 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 safe offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include automated online network monitoring and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have failed following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud 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 service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service 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-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more 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 network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique specialized help in vital areas of network protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with testing tools and can help you to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also provide web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as being expert in a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide benchmarks of performance that information security managers are required to achieve. It offers business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification have the background and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in key security areas including information protection governance, risk management, information protection process control, and incident handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in key categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Petaluma or anywhere in California and you want cybersecurity support services, call 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.