Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in San Diego UCSD, CA, have access to expert troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are ready to offer fast and economical help with security problems that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad range of consulting services covers firewall configuration, email security, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class help, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where quick solutions turn into major charges.

We've Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case you are currently faced with a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to learn how to receive immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security plus preparedness for restoring critical information and functions after a security breach requires an on-going program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security experts can help your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your information network, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help security staff to assess the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business processes. Progent can configure scanning software, create and build a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services feature automated online system monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration and Progent's Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring networks and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, restore ordinary functions, and recover information compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide world-class expertise in key facets of network security including:

Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can help you to understand audit results and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable devices. Find out more information about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of all sizes top-level consulting for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWALL Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Support Services
CISM identifies the core competencies and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It offers executive management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your enterprise in critical security disciplines including information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and crisis handling support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration practices, security design and models, access permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IS management mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in critical areas of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your company is located in San Diego UCSD or elsewhere in California and you need cybersecurity expertise, telephone 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.