Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote assistance with network security issues, businesses in Irvine California can find world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support staff is available to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver world-class support for key security and recovery solutions including AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's wide selection of consulting services encompasses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, protected system design, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support team has earned the world's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent offers online security help on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and forceful response. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to manage within a victim's system, the longer it will require to restore core operations and damaged files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to take the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate breached devices and guard undamaged resources from being compromised. If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
If your network is currently fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive fast aid. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have prepared beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security penetration.

Introduction to Security Support Services
Managing network security and staying ready for restoring vital information and systems after a security breach requires a continual process involving a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's security professionals can help your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your IT network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Attacks.

Designing and Building Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan defines activities to assist security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, create and execute a safe IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected remote connectivity to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include continual online system tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and servers that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed as a result of a security attack. Progent can help assess the damage caused by the attack, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified specialists can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend effective measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the services of seasoned ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To find out more, see ransomware cleanup and restoration expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly use their own computers and usually operate in a unsecured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of at-home workforce support consultants can help your business to design, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical information assets in environments that incorporate telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. In addition to maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver maximum 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 product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense platform that features computer learning algorithms and expert services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact software agents can be loaded in minutes to defend endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, script misuse, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the initial incident response tool activated by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy so-called tripwires such as fake files or credentials to find out when your network is under attack across key attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough detail to make it possible to react quickly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any comprehensive network security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored. Progent can implement ongoing autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost 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 aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered 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 Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous 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 DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of important files/folders, applications, images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss caused by hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight DPS family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

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 applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository 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 advanced automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class support in vital areas of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with testing utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with important global security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security covering in-place wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Read more information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of any size expert support for solutions from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network vendors. Progent's engineers offer:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consultants
• Check Point Software Technologies Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Help
• Juniper and NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consultants
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Learn additional details about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISSP Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have been awarded ISSAP status following thorough testing and significant hands-on work with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

Get additional information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected Network Architecture Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 network security expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining security policies.

Learn more details about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide services in key areas of network, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including U.S. National Security Agency. Progent offers the assistance of certified security engineers for all of the security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs including auditing security systems, incident response, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Irvine California and you want network security expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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