Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast online assistance with data security issues, companies in Walnut Creek California can find world-class support from Progent's certified security engineers. Progent's online support consultants are available to provide fast and affordable help with security emergencies that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's security engineers are premier to provide help for systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can provide world-class help for key security and restoration technologies including AI-driven End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), full system restoration validation, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide range of services covers firewall expertise, email filtering and encryption, protected system infrastructure, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Global Information Assurance Certification and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

Progent provides remote security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and no extra fees for setup or off-hour service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing policy keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way through a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and at night, when support personnel may take longer to become aware of a penetration and are least able to organize a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral movement ransomware is able to manage within a target's system, the more time it will require to recover basic IT services and scrambled files and the more information can be exfiltrated to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged resources from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do Now?
If your business is now faced with a security crisis other than ransomware, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Help to see how to get fast aid. Progent has a team of seasoned cybersecurity experts who can provide online and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your security defense to guard against future attacks.

For businesses who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step incident response procedure promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Managing network security and staying ready for restoring vital information and systems following an attack requires an on-going program involving a variety of technologies and procedures. Progent's security engineers can help your business at all levels in your efforts to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Key areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.

Planning and Building Protected Environments
Any business ought to have a carefully thought out security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize security gaps. The post-attack plan defines procedures to help IT staff to inventory the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to design protection into your business processes. Progent can install scanning utilities, create and implement a secure network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile access to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.

If you are interested in an economical option for jobbing out your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Packages feature non-stop online server tracking and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your company you to plan, deploy, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that incorporate physical and cloud-based resources and that are compliant with government data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to assess the losses caused by the attack, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough failure evaluation by going over activity logs and using a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to propose efficient ways to avoid or mitigate future attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Recovery Expertise
Progent offers the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to rebuild an environment that has suffered an attack by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware cleanup and recovery expertise.

Work-from-Home (WFH) Cybersecurity Solutions
At-home workers typically utilize their personal devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of telecommuter support consultants can assist you to design, implement and manage a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that incorporate at-home workers and hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's managed services for software and firmware patch management offer organizations of any size a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT network, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT staff to concentrate on line-of-business projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Based on SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management platform that includes AI software and expert services to provide enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's compact agents can be loaded in minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern threats such as ransomware, familiar and new malware, trojans, hacking tools, memory exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and reseller and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne Singularity is always the initial endpoint response software activated by Progent to provide control and visibility of a customer's system at the outset of a ransomware emergency. For more information, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response consulting.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can find, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically deploy decoys called tripwires like bogus files or credentials to detect when your system is actively under attack along high-risk attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient information to allow you to react promptly with your SIEM workflows before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Evaluation Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any overall IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly configured and actively observed. Progent can implement continuous autonomous PEN testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, overlooked patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks typical of modern variants of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio 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 facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup product companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, system images, and Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned 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 DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your network.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Services
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more 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 allows you to create, update, find and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's veteran engineers offer unique consulting support in key facets of IT security including:

Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with information risk auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to reveal potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can help your company to analyze assessment reports and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also provide web software testing and can perform expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless appliances as well as mobile devices. Find out more details about Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Network Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can provide world-class consulting support for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.

Other Firewall and VPN Technologies
As well as supporting a broad array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide organizations of any size 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 Deployment and Support
• Check Point Software Technologies Expertise
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Engineering Services
• Juniper/NetScreen Deployment and Support
• SonicWall Inc. Support
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consultants
• Symantec Corp Engineering Services

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are cybersecurity specialists who have earned CISSP status as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, access control methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Premier Experts for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier security consultants have earned ISSAP accreditation after rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown 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 offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity expert to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity mechanisms for all key system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational requirements with your organization's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious qualification that indicates expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to help companies in the areas of information systems audit process, IT governance, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Specialists
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's risk management 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 services of Progent's CISM-certified experts for implementing security policies.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in critical categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions around the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the security services covered under GIAC certification programs such as auditing IT infrastructure, incident handling, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is situated in Walnut Creek California and you're trying to find computer security support services, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

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