Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, companies in Santa Rosa California have access to world-class troubleshooting from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is ready to offer fast and economical help with security crises that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security engineers are premier to support environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and no extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions turn into big expenses.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Do We Do Now?
If your business is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future exploits.

For businesses that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating computer protection and staying ready for recovering critical information and functions following a security breach requires an on-going program that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can support your business at any level in your attempt to guard your IT system, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Some technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any company should develop a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy defines procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and implement a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include non-stop online network monitoring and immediate response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function because of a security attack. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and recover data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to propose effective ways to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Services
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an information system compromised by a ransomware virus like Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, 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 Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class 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 fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting service. Learn 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, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers can provide unique consulting support in key facets of IT security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read the details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst switches. Get more details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
In addition to being expert in a wide range of network security technologies from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of all sizes top-level consulting for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Symantec Corp Help

Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the core skills and worldwide standards of service that information security managers are expected to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their certification have the background and skill to provide efficient security management and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM support professional to assist your enterprise in key security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, data security process control, and incident response management.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more information concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts have earned ISSAP accreditation following rigorous testing and significant hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's risk tolerance.

Find out the details about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, safeguarding data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for impartially evaluating your IT control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for designing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in important categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Santa Rosa California and you're trying to find cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or see 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.