Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Expertise

To get fast online assistance with computer security issues, companies in Bakersfield California can find world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service consultants are ready to provide fast and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's security engineers are premier to support environments based on Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced support for key security and restoration technologies like AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide range of consulting services addresses firewall expertise, email security, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support staff has earned the world's top security credentials including Certified Information Security Manager and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for sign-up or after hours support. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids situations where simple fixes entail major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way across a target network. For this reason, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and at night, when IT personnel may take longer to recognize a breach and are least able to organize a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage within a target's network, the more time it will require to restore core operations and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the urgent first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to identify and isolate breached devices and protect undamaged assets from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is currently experiencing a security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to find out how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a pool of certified cybersecurity specialists who can provide online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future exploits.

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

Introduction to Security Services
Coordinating data security as well as planning for restoring vital information and systems following a security breach demands an on-going process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can support your business at any level in your attempt to safeguard your IT system, from security assessments to creating a complete security strategy. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.

Planning and Implementing Protected Environments
Every company should have a thoroughly thought out security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies activities to assist security staff to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your business operations. Progent can install scanning software, create and execute a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will enhance the protection of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include automated remote network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.

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

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and recover information compromised owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to restore an environment damaged by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Consulting
Work-from-Home staff members commonly use their personal computers and usually operate in a unsecured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter support consultants can assist your business to design, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical information assets in environments that include at-home workers as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management provide organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT team to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management stack that includes computer learning software and professional services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first incident response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network so you can expose, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can plant so-called tripwires like bogus credentials to find out whether your system is being probed across various attack vectors. Tripwires provide sufficient information to allow you to take action quickly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent offers the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive network security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are properly configured and actively observed. Progent can provide continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, skipped patches, and unsound product defaults can be combined by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Experts.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup product vendors to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of vital files, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps you avoid data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or application bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this second means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

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 critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures 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 enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class consulting support in key areas of computer security such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with scanning utilities and can assist you to analyze audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key global security standards such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile handsets. Find out more information concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth technical support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Engineering Services
• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Engineering Services
• Symantec Help

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security.

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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 large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your organization to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant security features for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Network Security Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk mitigation services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM consultants for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC accreditation topics including auditing security systems, security incident response, traffic analysis, web services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your organization is located in Bakersfield California and you want cybersecurity support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout Fresno, Tulare, and Kern Counties.