Remote Security Consulting and Vulnerability Auditing for Atlanta Small Office Information Networks
To get urgent assistance with network security issues, small companies in Atlanta, GA, can find expert troubleshooting online from Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is available at any time to provide efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's broad array of services covers firewall configuration, messaging security, protected network design, and information restoration. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the industry's top security accreditations including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Progent provides remote security support services on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra fees for setup or off-hour support. By charging by the minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's billing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates situations where simple solutions result in big charges.
Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Should We Do Now?
In case your network is now fighting a network security crisis, go to Progent's Urgent Online Computer Help to see how to receive fast assistance.
For businesses who have planned in advance for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack handling procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.
Introduction to Small Business Security Support Services
Managing network protection as well as preparedness for restoring vital data and functions after an attack demands an on-going effort that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified security professionals can support your business at any level in your efforts to guard your IT system, from security evaluation to creating a comprehensive security program. Some areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Based Attacks.
Planning and Building Protected Environments
Every organization ought to develop a thoroughly considered security plan that incorporates both preventive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that works to reduce security holes. The reactive strategy specifies procedures to assist security staff to assess the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and revive business functions as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your company processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and implement a secure network architecture, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.
If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated online server monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.
Data Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers skill in restoring systems and servers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have stopped working as a result of a security attack. Progent can help evaluate the damage caused by the breach, restore normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a thorough failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of advanced assessment tools. Progent's background with security issues reduces your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or contain future attacks.
Backup and Recovery Solutions Based on Data Protection Manager
Microsoft Data Protection Manager is a powerful data backup and restore product utilizing fast disk subsystems to optimize reliability, speed, and ease of administration. Progent's expert Microsoft Data Protection Manager support professionals can help you to develop an effective business continuity strategy, design an affordable fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, deploy a DPM-based backup and restore system, comprehensively test your system, train your administrative personnel or regular consultants how to manage Data Protection Manager, or handle complete information technology support outsourcing including off-site hosting of Microsoft DPM machines in Progent's world-class data center. For more information, visit Microsoft DPM Consulting.
Outsourced Spam and Virus Filtering
Progent has teamed with Postini to provide small companies E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and email-borne threats before they are able to breach your corporate firewall. Find out additional details concerning E-Mail Guard Outsourced Spam Blocking.
Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer unique expertise in key areas of computer protection including:
Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's certified security consultants also provide web application testing and can perform expert assessments of corporate-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important global security standards including FISMA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including fixed wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Read additional information concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.
Consulting for MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 offers policy-based security, enhanced performance, and simple management of complex networks by providing both a firewall and a Web cache server coordinated with Microsoft's Microsoft Windows 2003 Server platform. The ISA Server firewall delivers extensive security filtering, control of access policy, and traffic direction. The Web cache improves network throughput by remembering frequently requested Web data.
Progent's Microsoft ISA Server consulting service provides small and midsize companies the expertise of security professionals who know how to plan and implement a solution that meets your security needs while avoiding limiting system productivity.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can provide a Cisco CCIE engineer or Cisco Certified Network Professional to show you how to choose, configure, and support Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Read additional details about Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise.
Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's complete family of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, and Catalyst Series switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.
Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a wide range of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Progent offers small and mid-size businesses expert engineering services for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors such as:
Unannounced Penetration Checking Services
Unannounced intrusion checking is a key method for helping organizations to determine how exposed their IT systems are to serious attacks by testing how effectively corporate security processes and technologies stand up against planned but unpublicized penetration efforts launched by veteran security specialists using the latest intrusion methods. Read the details concerning Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
CISM Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the fundamental skills and worldwide standards of performance that IT security managers are required to master. It offers executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their accreditation possess the experience and skill to offer effective security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM consultant to assist your enterprise in vital security disciplines including data security governance, risk management, information protection program control, and incident response support.
CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.
ISSAP Engineering Support for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified security experts are experts who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of rigorous examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.
CISA Support Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that signifies expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test given by the ISACA professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-qualified security professional trained to help companies in the fields of information systems audit services, information technology administration, network assets and infrastructure planned useful life, IT support, protecting data assets, and disaster recovery planning.
Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to provide support in important categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent can provide the support of GIAC certified security engineers for all of the network security services covered under GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, and web-based application security.
Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your company is situated in Atlanta or anywhere in the state of Georgia and you're looking for computer security support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email security-help@progent.com.
Progent offers access to Cisco switches consultants to provide seasoned infrastructure planning and support services for information networks built on Cisco switching products. Cisco switches implement cutting edge Quality of Service to help ensure that data traffic is classified and prioritized, and that bottlenecks are avoided. Set up of Quality of Service for a Cisco switch is greatly simplified through auto-QoS, a feature that finds Cisco IP phones and automatically configures the switch for the appropriate classification and egress queuing. This optimizes data prioritization and system throughput without requiring your IT staff to design a complex switch configuration. Through the Cisco Catalyst switches for small and midsized companies, Cisco enables organizations to realize the full benefits of adding intelligent services into their IT networks. A Cisco network switch makes it possible to deploy abilities that make the network infrastructure consistently available to handle time-critical tasks, scalable to accommodate growth, safe enough to protect confidential data, and capable of classifying and managing data flows. Progent’s Cisco-qualified IT consultants can show you how to select and deploy a Cisco Ethernet switch to optimize your network’s throughput and availability.
E-Mail Guard represents a complete service for defending against spam and virus attacks. E-Mail Guard handles the protection and administration of corporate email by providing constantly improved spam and virus blocking, policy management, content filtering, and defense against email-borne DHA and DoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also features monitoring, management and analysis utilities plus outbound email filtering to let you troubleshoot your email environment and define and enforce corporate security policy.
Progent's Microsoft certified consultants can show you how to design and deploy a smooth in-place Microsoft Exchange 2007 migration plan that minimizes network downtime, reduces long-term support demands, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. For complicated multi-server or multi-site migrations, Progent has the experience to complete your project rapidly and affordably. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 help, troubleshooting, and design offerings include expertise with the integration of third-party add-ons to Exchange Server 2007 and the design of unified messaging solutions powered by Exchange Server 2007.
Progent's Microsoft-authorized consultants can show you how to rationalize the economic justification for implementing SharePoint 2007, consult with you on the most sensible version of SharePoint for your circumstances, provide configuration and deployment expertise, assist you to install Microsoft SQL Server as a supporting DBM, improve your network integrity, integrate your standard and customized application programs to work with SharePoint Portal Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security plan that incorporates portal solutions, and deliver maintenance and Help Desk services.
Windows NT Technology Consulting Services Outsourcing
The complexity and integration demands of Microsoft Windows Servers requires an IT consulting firm with hands-on expertise and in-depth familiarity with planning and building cohesive, end-to-end network technology solutions. The background of Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants, which averages over 10 years supporting Microsoft technology, assures you success deploying Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 to align closely with your strategic goals. Progent’s consulting services can help you with planning, installing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows Server solutions that increase the productivity of your IT system. Progent’s consultants can help you with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, or Windows NT Server so they efficiently support Windows XP and other desktop clients.
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home businesses to scalable gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, high throughput, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built operating system,minimizing common OS-specific security holes.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts can provide small and medium sized companies computer consulting, support, and repair services for Microsoft SharePoint Server. SharePoint Server is an advanced portal platform for intelligently coordinating people, teams and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers a common location for your workers or clients to access, organize, share and interact with relevant information, files, and software and to communicate with other people. Microsoft SharePoint allows faster and more intelligent decisions, more efficient access across teams and more economical business practices. The main goal of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a relevant way, all of the many sources of information accessible within and without an organization. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, customers, workgroups and major tasks with the information they’ve created in a way that makes data convenient to locate, download and re-use.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts offer small and midsize companies IT consulting, support, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal solution for efficiently connecting people, groups and data. SharePoint Portal Server provides a central spot for your workers or customers to access, manage, distribute and interact with useful information, files, and applications and to communicate with other people. It enables faster and more intelligent decisions, more effective sharing across groups and more streamlined business processes. The primary goal of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge available inside and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services join workers, customers, workgroups and projects with the data they’ve developed in a way that makes data easy to find, retrieve and re-use.
If you are developing Linux-based applications on a network that has Microsoft Windows-based processors, desktops, and office applications, Progent can provide full-service IT outsourcing that allows you to focus on your field of strategic know-how without the continual hassle of maintaining your company information system. By using automated server monitoring and by providing online and in-person assistance as your company needs it, Progent offers an economical solution for supporting an information system that provides excellent dependability, security, and efficiency. Progent's Linux developer support services feature comprehensive it outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, online and on-sitesupport and troubleshooting, proactive network monitoring services, and help desk call center support.
Progent can help you plan and implement an efficient migration to Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains so that you preserve your data, strengthen your security, modernize your management reporting, take complete advantage of Microsoft Office integration, and minimize business interruption by designing and following a smart migration plan. Progent can also help train new Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 users so you don't lose productivity. Progent can improve your company reports and management analytics by offering Crystal Reports consulting, FRx programming, and Excel expertise. Progent's background with Microsoft .NET technology, Microsoft SQL Server applications, and designing with VBasic, XML and other platforms make it possible to create custom business applications and eCommerce solutions that integrate seamlessly with Great Plains.
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge needed to provide services in important areas of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent offers the help of GIAC certified consultants for all of the network security capabilities addressed under GIAC certification programs such as assessing IT infrastructure, security incident handling, intrusion detection, and web-based application security.
Progent practices knowledge transfer from Progent's support experts to customers. By educating clients to deal with problems that are within their scope, Progent is able to concentrate on providing high-value skills where Progent faces few competitors. Mid-size companies who utilize trusted freelance consultants or who maintain in-house IT personnel benefit when Progent passes on knowledge about new technology and proven methodologies to make their IT environments more reliable, secure, and efficient.
Server proliferation wreaks havoc on IT budgets and management resources. Server consolidation through a virtual architecture promises lower total cost of ownership of hardware and faster return on investment, more efficient use of physical computers, streamlined operations, enhanced system availability, and easier manageability. Typical uses for virtual machines include resource consolidation, low-cost hosts for mission-critical legacy applications running on obsolete operating systems, and affordable quarantine of program development or pilot testing environments from on-line systems.
Progent provides small and medium size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and select the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.
