Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

To get immediate online assistance with computer security problems, companies in Thousand Oaks California have access to world-class support from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available to offer fast and economical assistance with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced guidance for critical security and recovery solutions including AI-driven EDR (End Point Protection and Response), Managed Detection and Response, full system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad selection of services encompasses firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and business continuity planning. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's most advanced security accreditations including CISM and CISSP.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute model without minimum call duration and no extra fees for sign-up or after hours support. By billing per minute and by delivering top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where quick fixes entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to work its way through a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when IT staff may be slower to become aware of a breach and are least able to organize a rapid and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to make within a victim's system, the longer it will require to restore basic operations and damaged files and the more data can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to identify and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being compromised. If your system 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 Network Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do Now?
In case your business is now faced with a security emergency other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to see how to get immediate assistance. Progent has a team of seasoned network security experts who can provide online and onsite assistance that includes containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies who have prepared carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Overview of Security Support Services
Coordinating computer security as well as planning for recovering critical information and systems following a security breach demands a continual program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified experts can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to safeguard your IT network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security strategy. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Borne Spam and Viruses.

Planning and Building Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps that helps to reduce security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to assist security personnel to inventory the losses resulting from a breach, repair the damage, document the event, and revive business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and implement a secure IT infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to enhance the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to e-mail and information, and install an efficient VPN.

If your company is looking for an economical option for jobbing out your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Packages include continual remote network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with government and industry data security standards. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.)

Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have ceased to function following a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses caused by the assault, restore normal business operations, and recover data compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment techniques. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to recommend efficient measures to prevent or contain future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery experts with the skills to restore an IT network compromised by a ransomware virus such as Ryuk, WannaCry, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
At-home employees commonly use their own computing devices and often work in a unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran team of telecommuter support consultants can help your business to design, implement and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that incorporate remote workers as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for assessing, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT system. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and tasks that derive the highest 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-centric threat defense platform that includes computer learning software 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 a few minutes to guard popular endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, familiar and zero-day malware, trojan viruses, hacking tool sets, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, invasive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response tool deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's system at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For additional information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) expertise.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically plant decoys called tripwires like fake credentials to find out when your network is under attack along key attack paths. Tripwires generate enough detail to make it possible 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 help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any overall network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Consultants.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge 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 Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with advanced backup/restore product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss caused by hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned employees, or application glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight DPS product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure 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 service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's seasoned consultants offer world-class support in key areas of IT protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application validation and can perform thorough assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important worldwide security specifications including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable handsets. Learn more information about Progent's Information Risk Evaluation and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco CCIE engineers and Cisco CCNP experts can provide world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected high-speed and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Expertise.

Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as supporting a wide array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide businesses of all sizes expert engineering services for technologies from other major firewall and VPN vendors. Progent's consultants can provide:

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

Learn additional details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through verified experience, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include cybersecurity management practices, security design and test systems, access control systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.

Read the details about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure System Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security consultants have earned ISSAP status after thorough testing and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth understanding of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Premier Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to assist your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review system security designs based on security engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an exhaustive examination overseen by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security engineer trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's network risk management expertise is complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Premier security engineers for objectively auditing your IT management mechanisms and with the services of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for defining company-wide security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide support in important categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations around the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the expertise of GIAC certified consultants for all of the security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs such as auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Support
If your company is situated in Thousand Oaks California and you're looking for computer security expertise, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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