Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

For fast remote assistance with data security issues, companies in Santa Rosa California have access to world-class support from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer effective and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP).

Progent offers remote security help on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick solutions entail major bills.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is now fighting a network security emergency, visit Progent's Urgent Online Technical Support to see how to receive fast assistance. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for a security breech, the formal incident response procedure outlined by GIAC is Progent's preferred method of responding to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Coordinating network protection as well as staying ready for recovering critical information and systems after a security breach demands a continual process involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your IT system, ranging from security assessments to creating a complete security plan. Important technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Secure Environments
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive steps. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT personnel to inventory the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and execute a safe computer infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy protected offsite access to email and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote system tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and recover data lost owing to the event. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient strategies to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates next generation behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your critical information. Find out 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 infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. 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
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants offer unique support in vital facets of computer protection including:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can assist you to analyze assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key worldwide security specifications such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus portable handsets. Learn the details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical services for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst switches. Read additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Technical Assistance

CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, data protection process management, and incident response support.

Read additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP status through verified professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, connection control methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity 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 can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer trained to assist businesses in the areas of IS audit services, IT governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.

Learn more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively evaluating your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining security policies and procedures.

Read additional information about Progent's CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in vital categories of network, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered under GIAC certification topics including assessing perimeters, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Expertise
If your business is located in Santa Rosa California and you want cybersecurity support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the North Bay areas of Marin, Sonoma and Napa Counties.