Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in San Francisco California have access to world-class support from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is ready to offer fast and affordable help with security crises that threaten the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad array of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level help, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple solutions turn into big charges.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your network is now fighting a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned beforehand for a security breech, the formal post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a serious security penetration.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus preparation for restoring critical data and systems following a security breach demands a continual effort involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security experts can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any company should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to assist IT personnel to assess 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 design security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an affordable option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include non-stop remote server tracking and quick resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the damage resulting from the breach, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore a network victimized by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email 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 (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of vital files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of top data security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit 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 business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation 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: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer unique consulting support in vital areas of IT protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with security auditing tools like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help you to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can conduct expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with major global security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Find out the details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting services for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced consulting for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper Networks Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of performance that information technology security managers are required to master. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their accreditation have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified support professional to help your enterprise in key security disciplines including information security governance, risk management, information security program management, and crisis handling management.

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included within CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is an important qualification that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IT management design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for designing security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is located in San Francisco California and you want network security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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