Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with data security issues, businesses in San Francisco California have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support services on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and without additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your network is now experiencing a security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to see how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies that have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing data security plus staying ready for recovering critical data and functions after a security breach requires a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can assist your organization at all levels in your attempt to guard your IT system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install scanning utilities, define and execute a secure computer architecture, and propose processes and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include continual online network monitoring and immediate resolution of emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can help determine the damage caused by the attack, return your company to normal functions, and recover data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems reduces your downtime and permits Progent to propose effective strategies to avoid or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to restore an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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. 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 (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber 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
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables fast recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified engineers offer world-class consulting support in key facets of network protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Get the details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• WatchGuard Technologies Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Corp Help

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the fundamental competencies and international benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are expected to achieve. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their accreditation possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to help your organization in vital security disciplines such as information security governance, risk assessment, data protection program management, and crisis response management.

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

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation after rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Learn additional details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure System Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise associated with 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 principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Learn the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Read additional details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services.

CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are complementary to the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for objectively assessing your IS management design and with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for implementing company-wide security policies.

Learn more information about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consulting.

GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in key areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of certified professionals for all of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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

Depend on Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is located in San Francisco California and you're trying to find cybersecurity 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 Northern California.