Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online help with network security issues, companies in Sherman Oaks California can find expert support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to offer efficient and low-cost help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure network design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute basis without minimum times and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level help, Progent's pricing policy keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big expenses.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are currently fighting a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to learn how to get fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of veteran cybersecurity experts who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal incident handling model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating computer protection as well as staying ready for recovering vital information and functions after an attack demands a continual effort that entails a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT personnel to assess the damage resulting from a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can set up auditing software, create and implement a secure computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to optimize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to help you to set up a firewall, design protected online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online network monitoring and quick response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your company you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include local and cloud-based resources and that comply with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Office 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working following a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Services
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To learn more, see ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing 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. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, 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 corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports 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 knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants offer world-class expertise in key areas of network protection including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive system scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Read additional details about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out more details concerning Cisco Protection, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size expert support for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants offer:

• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Support
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Symantec Engineering Services

CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information technology security managers are expected to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their certification possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM consultant to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as information security governance, risk management, information protection process control, and incident response support.

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and formal testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission methodology, software development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP certification following rigorous testing and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Protected Network Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security 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 can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

Read more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Services.

CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management services are a good fit the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge needed to deliver services in critical categories of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified security engineers for any of the security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in Sherman Oaks California and you're trying to find computer security help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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