Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote assistance with data security issues, companies in San Mateo California can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available to provide effective and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems based on Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide expert support for vital security and recovery technologies such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, Managed Detection and Response, full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent provides online security expertise on a by-the-minute model with no minimum times and no additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and avoids situations where quick solutions entail major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a rapid and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to achieve inside a target's system, the longer it takes to recover basic IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to take the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
If you are now fighting a network security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Computer Help to learn how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of certified network security experts who can provide online and on-premises assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to protect against future attacks.

For businesses that have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security incident.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing network protection plus preparation for restoring vital data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's security experts can assist your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your IT network, from security audits to designing a complete security program. Key areas covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of Email-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive plan is a set of steps that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to help IT personnel to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive network functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will enhance the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure online and mobile access to e-mail and data, and install an effective VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical way for jobbing out your security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include continual remote system tracking and fast response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to design, implement, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud resources and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent has expertise in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can help determine the losses caused by the attack, restore normal business operations, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to propose effective ways to avoid or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically utilize their own computers and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of telecommuter support experts can assist you to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking updates to your dynamic information system. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services free up time for your in-house IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information 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-centric threat defense stack that includes AI 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 minutes to protect endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, known and new malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is always the first EDR response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery. For additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response services.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can insert so-called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to detect when your environment is actively being probed along common attack paths. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to allow you to take action quickly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, uninstalled patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to the latest variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight series of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of important files, applications, system images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets your business recover from data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound 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 leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique consulting support in key areas of computer protection including:

Information Risk Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can help your company to understand assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web software validation and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection including in-place wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Get additional details concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of security and VPN solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide range of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size top-level support for security products from other popular firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Find out more details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Consulting Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management practices, security architecture and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following rigorous testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access control systems and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Premier security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting information assets, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk management services are a good fit the support available from Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining security policies.

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GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide services in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security services addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in San Mateo California and you need cybersecurity help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.