Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Manhattan Beach California can find world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to offer fast and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are premier to support environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced help for key cybersecurity and restoration solutions including AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall configuration, email security, secure network infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the world's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security support services on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra fees for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where simple fixes result in big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are commonly unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a penetration and are least able to mount a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can achieve within a target's network, the longer it will require to recover basic operations and damaged 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 attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist businesses to locate and isolate breached devices and protect clean assets from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
If you are currently faced with a security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Urgent Online Network Support to find out how to get immediate help. Progent maintains a pool of veteran network security experts who offer online and onsite support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and enhancement of your security profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared carefully for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a serious security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer protection plus planning for recovering critical data and systems after an attack requires an on-going program involving an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified security experts can support your organization at whatever level in your attempt to protect your information system, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Environments
Any organization ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that incorporates both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that works to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network functions as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate security into your company operations. Progent can configure auditing utilities, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and propose procedures and policies to maximize the safety of your information system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite access to email and information, and configure an efficient VPN.

If your company is interested in an affordable way for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature automated remote network monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that comply with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration consulting.)

Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Services
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an environment victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. For more information, visit ransomware removal and recovery services.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Consulting
Work-from-Home employees typically utilize their personal devices and usually operate in a unsecured physical space. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of at-home workforce support consultants can assist your business to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT network, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management platform that features AI algorithms and advanced 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 endpoints against increasingly sophisticated assaults such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's system at the outset of a ransomware breach. For additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network so you can uncover, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to detect whether your network is currently being targeted along key attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to allow you to react quickly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the support of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently monitored. Progent can provide continuous autonomous penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern strains of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Services.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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 (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out 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 ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has partnered with advanced backup/restore technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and fast restoration of critical files, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed services in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to identify which of these fully managed 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 data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within 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 authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers can provide unique specialized help in key facets of computer protection such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to understand audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web application validation and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major worldwide security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn additional details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Consulting.

Other Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad range of network security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of all sizes expert support for products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Expertise
• Check Point Software Technologies Ltd Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Expertise
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Engineering Services
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

Find out additional details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security architecture and test systems, connection control systems, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity consultants have earned ISSAP status following thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants have in-depth understanding of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with 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 support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security professional trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity preparedness.

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CRISC IT Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match 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 objectively evaluating your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing company-wide security policies.

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GIAC Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to deliver services in critical categories of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified professionals for any of the network security services addressed under GIAC accreditation programs including assessing perimeters, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in Manhattan Beach California and you're looking for computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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