Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, companies in San Diego California have access to world-class expertise from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security credentials including CISM and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute model without minimum minutes and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions entail major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is now faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to see how to get fast assistance. Progent has a team of veteran network security experts who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the formal incident response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of handling a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection plus preparedness for recovering vital data and functions after a security breach demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security professionals can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security program. Key technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help IT staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and build a safe IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite access to email and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud hosted infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has skill in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest effective ways to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an IT network that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed 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 available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed 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 and email encryption service that uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants can provide unique specialized help in vital facets of IT protection such as:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security including in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and VPN solutions including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

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

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Expertise
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic competencies and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to achieve. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their accreditation have the background and knowledge to provide efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified consultant to assist your enterprise in critical security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection program control, and incident handling support.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security design and models, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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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 associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting.

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology governance, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate 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 organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is complementary to the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively evaluating your IS control design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver support in important areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in San Diego California and you're trying to find computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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