Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Petaluma California can find expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or after hours support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your network is currently fighting a network security emergency, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have planned carefully for a security breech, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus staying ready for restoring critical data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going program involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security engineers can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your IT network, from security assessments to designing a complete security program. Some areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a safe network architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite access to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop online server monitoring and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that comply with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by going over activity logs and using other advanced assessment tools. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an environment damaged by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family 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. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn 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 Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud 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 service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit 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 organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single 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 a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures 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 responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class consulting support in key areas of IT protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to identify potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can assist your company to understand audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Get additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to being expert in a wide array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert consulting for products from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the basic skills and worldwide standards of service that information technology security professionals are expected to master. CISM offers executive management the confidence that those who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data security process control, and incident handling management.

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CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access control systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security 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 network security expert to help your enterprise to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on 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 services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM experts for designing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills needed to provide support in important categories of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Petaluma California and you're looking for network security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit 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.