Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online help with data security problems, businesses in San Diego California can find world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are available to provide fast and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited engineers are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.

Progent provides online security support on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick solutions entail major bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is currently fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to find out how to get immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer online and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned in advance for an attack, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for restoring vital data and functions following a security breach demands a continual program that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at any level in your attempt to secure your information system, from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security program. Important technologies covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any company ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an affordable way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated online server tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function following a security penetration. Progent can help evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, restore ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to propose efficient strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help 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 immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important 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 support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more 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, update, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique support in vital areas of network security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar tools and can assist you to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Get more details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes expert consulting for security products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers can provide:

• Check Point Software Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the background and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to help your enterprise in vital security disciplines such as information protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and crisis handling management.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP status following rigorous examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected IT Infrastructure Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT support, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

Learn more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services.

CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for defining security policies and procedures.

Read more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the assistance of certified professionals for any of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation topics including auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, traffic analysis, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in San Diego California and you're trying to find network security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the San Diego Metro Area.