Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Expertise

To get immediate online help with computer security problems, businesses in Sherman Oaks California have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to offer fast and economical assistance with security issues that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security engineers are certified to provide help for systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services addresses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure system infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security credentials including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum times and without extra fees for setup or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes turn into big expenses.

We've Been Attacked: What Should We Do Now?
If your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Support to see how to get fast assistance. Progent has a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For businesses who have planned carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating computer security as well as preparedness for restoring critical data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and build a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected remote access to email and data, and configure an effective VPN.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include non-stop remote system tracking and fast response to emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in recovering systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed as a result of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve information compromised owing to the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified 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 real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that allows you prove compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit 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 or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned engineers offer world-class specialized help in key areas of IT security such as:

Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic network tests to reveal potential security problems. Progent has extensive skills with these tools and can assist you to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as portable devices. Read more details about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of security and VPN technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes top-level support for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Expertise
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core competencies and worldwide benchmarks of service that IT security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as information security governance, vulnerability management, information security process control, and incident response support.

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CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out more information about Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services 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 and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that indicates expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively assessing your IS control mechanisms and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies.

Find out additional information about Progent's CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consulting.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to deliver services in key areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation programs including auditing IT infrastructure, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Computer Security Support
If your organization is situated in Sherman Oaks California and you're looking for cybersecurity help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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