Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security problems, companies in Salinas California have access to world-class expertise from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services covers firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and no additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick fixes entail major charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are now faced with a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to learn how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Expertise
Managing data security and staying ready for recovering critical data and functions after a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can help your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing software, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If you are looking for an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine 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, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to restore an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of managed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist 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 data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital areas of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help your company to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web application validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile devices. Read more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size expert engineering services for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of service that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program control, and incident handling management.

Find out the details concerning Progent's CISM Security Consulting Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following thorough examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to provide support in vital areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics including auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in Salinas California and you need network security consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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