Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

For immediate remote help with network security problems, businesses in San Francisco California can find expert expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer efficient and economical help with security issues that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support environments powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall expertise, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.

Progent provides remote security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and avoids situations where quick fixes result in major charges.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is now fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Help to find out how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for a security breech, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Security Support Services
Managing data security and preparedness for restoring critical data and functions following a security breach requires an on-going process that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your organization at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Key technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every organization should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to help security staff to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and execute a safe network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to set up a firewall, deploy secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include continual remote network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge 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 next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs 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 protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: 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 leading data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details 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 create, update, retrieve and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants can provide world-class support in vital areas of network security including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic network scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key global security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Read the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Get more information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level support for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have been awarded their CISM possess the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your organization in critical security areas including data security governance, vulnerability management, data protection program management, and crisis handling management.

Find out the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Learn additional details about Progent's CISSP Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation after thorough examination and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Learn the details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 security analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to help businesses in the areas of IS audit process, information technology governance, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more information about Progent's CISA Consulting Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially assessing your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM consultants for defining company-wide security policies.

Read additional details about Progent's CRISC IT Risk Mitigation Services.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide support in critical categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the support of certified consultants for all of the security services covered within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing networks, incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Learn additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in San Francisco California and you want cybersecurity consulting expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Northern California.