Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Pasadena California have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are ready to provide effective and low-cost assistance with security issues that threaten the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are premier to provide help for systems powered by Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide expert support for key security and recovery solutions such as AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide selection of services encompasses firewall technology, email security, protected system architecture, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and ISSAP.

Progent offers remote security expertise on a per-minute model with no minimum minutes and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's billing policy keeps costs low and eliminates situations where simple fixes entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a target network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are commonly launched on weekends and late at night, when IT personnel may take longer to recognize a penetration and are least able to organize a quick and forceful response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage within a victim's system, the more time it will require to recover core operations and damaged 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 complete the urgent first phase in responding to a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to identify and quarantine infected 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 Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is currently faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Support to see how to receive immediate assistance. Progent has a team of certified cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for a security breach, the step-by-step post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security incident.

Overview of Security Services
Coordinating computer security and preparedness for recovering critical information and functions following a security breach demands a continual process that entails a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to guard your information system, from security evaluation to creating a complete security plan. Important areas supported by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Threats.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security staff to inventory the damage caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to incorporate protection into your company operations. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a safe IT architecture, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to email and information, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an affordable way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include automated remote server monitoring and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to plan, implement, manage and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that include physical and cloud hosted resources and that are compliant with government and industry security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud planning and integration expertise.)

Data Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have stopped working because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and recover information lost owing to the breach. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of experienced ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an information system that has suffered an attack by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Security Consulting
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their personal computers and often work in a unsecured physical area. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of telecommuter support experts can assist you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in environments that incorporate at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Read more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity portfolio is a subscription-based, cloud-centric cyberthreat defense stack that includes computer learning algorithms and expert services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be installed in a few minutes to defend popular endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, known and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tools, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first EDR response tool deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system in the first stages of a ransomware recovery. For additional information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, concurrent, automated assessment of your network to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to find out when your network is being targeted along proven attack vectors. Tripwires generate enough information to allow you to take action quickly with your SIEM workflows before an assailant can wreak havoc. Progent offers the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's threat analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous automatic PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound IT 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 Intrusion Assessment Experts.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: 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 machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, 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 alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of critical files, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed services in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can help you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more details 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 allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer world-class support in vital areas of computer protection including:

Information Risk Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of automatic system tests to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to understand assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with key worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment plus mobile handsets. Read additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Find out the details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
As well as supporting a broad range of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert support for solutions from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Learn the details concerning Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Assistance.

Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security architecture and models, access control methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.

Get the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Protected System Architecture Engineering Services.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide large organizations with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior cybersecurity analyst. Progent can provide the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to assist your organization to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security models that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive examination overseen by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security consultant trained to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT administration, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk mitigation services are complementary to the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IS control design and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM support professionals for defining security policies and procedures.

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GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification topics such as assessing networks, incident handling, intrusion detection, web application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is situated in Pasadena California and you want cybersecurity consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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