Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For immediate remote help with computer security issues, businesses in Santa Cruz California can find high-level troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available to offer fast and economical help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can provide advanced support for vital security and restoration technologies like AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, complete system restore validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide selection of services addresses firewall configuration, email filtering and encryption, protected network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's support team has been awarded the world's most advanced security credentials including GIAC and ISSAP.

Progent offers online security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and without extra charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates situations where simple fixes turn into big bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and late at night, when support staff may be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to organize a rapid and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage inside a victim's network, the longer 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 organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist you to identify and quarantine breached devices and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

We've Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
If you are now fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to learn how to get immediate help. Progent has a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future exploits.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of handling a major security penetration.

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security and planning for restoring critical data and systems after a security breach requires an on-going effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Implementing Protected Networks
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist security staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your company operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and execute a secure computer architecture, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.

If you are looking for an economical way for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Packages feature non-stop remote system tracking and immediate response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and computers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the losses caused by the assault, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data compromised owing to the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to reconstruct an information system compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or Locky. To learn more, visit ransomware cleanup and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Expertise
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically use their personal computers and often work in a unsecured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter solutions experts can help you to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in networks that include remote workers and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to maximizing the protection and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services free up time for your IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that deliver the highest business value from your 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-centered threat defense platform that includes computer learning software and advanced services to provide comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's low-profile software agents can be installed in a few minutes to guard endpoints against modern cyberthreats including ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking tool sets, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints protected by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first incident response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a client's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-based Extended Detection and Response (XDR) consulting.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can expose, rank, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to find out when your system is currently being targeted across common attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to make it possible to take action quickly with your incident response tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration (PEN) Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, uninstalled patches, and dangerous IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Services.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services automate and track your data backup operations and enable non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection portfolio include ProSight 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 expert can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are best suited for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, 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 documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran consultants can provide unique support in vital facets of IT security including:

Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing utilities and can help you to analyze audit reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to determine your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications such as FISMA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including in-place wireless equipment plus portable devices. Learn more information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed Wi-Fi APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers organizations of all sizes advanced engineering services for technologies from other important firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's engineers can provide:

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

Learn the details about Progent's CISM Security Consulting Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are cybersecurity specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge covered under CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, software development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated 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 consultant to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's risk tolerance.

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CISA Security Auditor Professional Services
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Premier security engineer trained to help businesses in the fields of IS audit services, information technology governance, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology support, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity planning.

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CRISC-certified IT Risk Management Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's network risk mitigation expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Premier consultants for objectively assessing your IS management mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for designing security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC certification topics such as auditing perimeters, security 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 business is located in Santa Cruz California and you're trying to find computer security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.