Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with data security problems, companies in San Diego, CA, can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available to provide fast and low-cost help with security problems that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple fixes entail big bills.

We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Help to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent has a pool of certified cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security attack.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating data protection as well as preparation for recovering critical data and systems following a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified consultants can assist your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to help security staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online system tracking and quick resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud resources and that comply with government security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data lost as a result of the attack. Progent's security specialists can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend effective strategies to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild a network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and configure 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 test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable 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, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide world-class specialized help in vital facets of computer protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for performing a set of automatic system tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with scanning tools and can help your company to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Find out additional information about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network products including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Help

CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic competencies and international benchmarks of performance that IT security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in vital security areas including data security governance, vulnerability management, information protection program management, and crisis response management.

Read additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and models, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Learn more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise 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 organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.

Find out additional information about Progent's CISA Support Services.

CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IS control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in important areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified security engineers for all of the network security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as auditing perimeters, 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 Support
If your company is located in San Diego or elsewhere in the state of California and you're looking for network security engineering help, 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 San Diego Metro Area.