Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate remote help with network security issues, businesses in Carlsbad California have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer fast and affordable help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for key security and recovery technologies such as AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's broad selection of consulting services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery planning. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security certifications including GIAC and CISSP.

Progent offers remote security assistance on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no additional charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions result in major charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel may take longer to become aware of a break-in and are less able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware can manage within a victim's system, the longer it will require to recover basic operations and damaged files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to complete the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and quarantine infected devices and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Should We Do?
In case your network is currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security specialists who offer remote and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your security profile to protect against future exploits.

For companies who have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Managing data security as well as staying ready for restoring vital data and systems following a security breach demands a continual process that entails a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can support your organization at any level in your efforts to protect your information network, from security evaluation to designing a comprehensive security plan. Key areas supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Threats.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and responsive steps. The pre-attack plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help security staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and build a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable option for jobbing out your security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature non-stop online server monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in restoring systems and computers that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses resulting from the breach, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also manage a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an environment damaged by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or Locky. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
Work-from-Home staff members commonly use their personal computing devices and usually work in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce support experts can assist your business to plan, configure and manage an effective security solution that guards critical IT assets in networks that include telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer organizations of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat defense platform that includes computer learning algorithms and professional services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern assaults such as ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne Singularity is invariably the first endpoint response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's network in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can identify, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out whether your system is being targeted along common attack paths. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to react promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an assailant can do serious damage. Progent can provide the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's internal network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and unsound product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of important files/folders, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these managed services are best suited for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified engineers can provide unique specialized help in key facets of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides experience with information risk evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can conduct thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Find out more information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Expertise
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide array of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers businesses of any size top-level engineering services for solutions from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Integration
• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consultants
• WatchGuard Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Deployment and Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Find out additional information concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration practices, security architecture and test systems, access permission methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts have earned ISSAP status following rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Get more details about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your organization to follow modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates pass an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Certified security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit process, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation services are a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Certified consultants for impartially evaluating your IT control mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified consultants for implementing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant has the skills needed to deliver support in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the assistance of certified consultants for all of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Carlsbad California and you need computer security expertise, 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 San Diego Metro Area.