Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with network security issues, businesses in Los Angeles California can find high-level support by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide expert guidance for vital security and recovery solutions such as AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide array of services encompasses firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.

Progent offers online security help on a by-the-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra charges for setup or off-hour support. By charging per minute and by delivering top-level expertise, Progent's billing model keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to steal its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when support staff are likely to take longer to become aware of a penetration and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to make inside a victim's system, the more time it takes to recover basic operations and scrambled files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to locate and isolate infected servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
In case your business is now faced with a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to find out how to get immediate assistance. Progent maintains a team of seasoned cybersecurity specialists who can provide remote and onsite assistance that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to protect against future attacks.

For companies that have planned in advance for a security breach, the formal post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security incident.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing network security as well as preparedness for restoring critical data and functions following an attack demands a continual program that entails an array of technologies and processes. Progent's security experts can assist your organization at all levels in your efforts to secure your information network, ranging from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security plan. Key technologies covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy defines activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, define and build a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design protected offsite access to e-mail and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If you are interested in an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages include continual online server tracking and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised owing to the breach. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough failure evaluation by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security issues minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to avoid or contain future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. For more information, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
Work-from-Home employees typically use their personal devices and often operate in a unsecured physical area. This situation increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran team of Work-from-home support experts can assist your business to plan, implement and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical IT resources in networks that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer network, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered threat management stack that includes AI software and expert 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 minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking toolkits, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial incident response tool activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can identify, prioritize, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like fake credentials to find out whether your environment is currently being targeted along common attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to allow you to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly configured and consistently observed. Progent can provide ongoing autonomous penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, uninstalled patches, and dangerous 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 Consultants.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your data backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid restoration of critical files/folders, apps, images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or software glitches. Managed services in the ProSight DPS product line 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 storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers can provide world-class specialized help in key facets of network protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of automatic network scans to reveal potential security problems. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to analyze assessment results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can conduct thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read more details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class technical services for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more information about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size expert engineering services for products from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper Networks Integration
• SonicWall Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Configuration Help
• Symantec Help

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

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and test systems, access permission systems, software development security, operations security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services 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 expert to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define efficient configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic security models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security audit consultant able to help businesses in the fields of IS audit process, IT administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

Read the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services.

CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the services available from Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for impartially evaluating your IT management design and also with the services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies.

Read more details concerning Progent's CRISC-certified IT Risk Mitigation Consulting.

Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional has the skills appropriate to deliver support in key categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent offers the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics including assessing networks, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based services security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

Learn additional information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Depend on Progent for Network Security Support
If your organization is located in Los Angeles California and you need computer security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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