Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate online help with computer security issues, companies in Salinas California can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide fast and economical assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security support on a per-minute basis without minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions turn into big charges.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is currently faced with a security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to see how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who can provide remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating data security as well as planning for restoring vital data and functions following an attack requires a continual effort that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified professionals can assist your business at whatever level in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive steps. The proactive plan is a set of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing software, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options include continual online system tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are in question, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the losses caused by the breach, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the event. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to propose effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art 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 Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS 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 leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic 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 organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. 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, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide world-class consulting support in key facets of computer security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with these tools and can assist you to understand assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances plus portable devices. Learn more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes advanced support for solutions from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

CISM Security Support Services
CISM defines the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification have the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, information security process control, and crisis handling management.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Get the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data assets, and business continuity planning.

Learn additional details about Progent's CISA Consulting Expertise.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially auditing your IT management design and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to provide support in critical areas of network, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for any of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics such as assessing security systems, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Salinas California and you're trying to find cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.