Remote Security Support Services and Vulnerability Audting for Denver Small Company Network Systems
To get urgent help with network security issues, small companies in Denver, CO, can find world-class expertise remotely from Progent's security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available round the clock to offer fast and affordable help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Mac, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, e-mail security, secure network design, and data recovery. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and CISSP.
Progent offers remote security support services on a by-the-minute model without minimum minutes and no additional fees for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by delivering world-class expertise, Progent's billing structure keeps costs under control and avoids situations where quick fixes result in major expenses.
We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your network is currently experiencing a security crisis, refer to Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to see how to receive fast aid.
For businesses that have planned in advance for being hacked, the formal post-attack handling model outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's preferred method of reacting to a major security attack.
Overview of Security Services
Managing data protection as well as staying ready for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach requires an on-going effort that entails an array of technologies and procedures. Progent's certified professionals can help your organization at all levels in your efforts to guard your IT system, from security audits to designing a complete security strategy. Key areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of Email-Based Attacks.
Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan specifies activities to help security personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing software, create and execute a secure network architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will maximize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.
If you are looking for an affordable option for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature non-stop remote network monitoring and fast resolution of emergencies.
System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have failed following a security breach. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by going over event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to avoid or mitigate future attacks.
Data Backup and Recovery Strategies Centered on Microsoft DPM
System Center Data Protection Manager is a powerful backup and recovery solution centered around disk-to-disk systems to improve network uptime, speed, and manageability. Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to create an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective fault-tolerant network infrastructure, install a Microsoft Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore system, thoroughly test your system, train your administrative personnel or regular service providers how to manage DPM, or handle extensive information technology outsourcing such as remote hosting of Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center. For more information, visit Data Protection Manager (DPM) Consulting and Support Services.
Outsourced Spam Blocking
Progent has partnered with Postini to provide small and midsize companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that intercepts spam and email viruses before they are able to breach your network firewall. Get additional information about E-Mail Guard Managed Spam Blocking.
Specialized Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key areas of network protection including:
Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of automatic system tests to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive skills with these utilities and can help your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can conduct expert assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection including fixed wireless appliances as well as portable handsets. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.
Support for Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Microsoft ISA Server 2006 provides rules-based protection, improved performance, and simple management of internetworking by providing both an advanced firewall and a Web acceleration server integrated with Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server operating system. The firewall provides extensive security filtering, management of access policy, and traffic direction. The cache enhances network performance by remembering frequently accessed Web content.
Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to show you how to choose, configure, and support Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Get the details about Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Consulting.
Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and VPN technologies such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure broadband and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, and Catalyst family switches. Find out more details about Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise.
Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
As well as being expert in a broad range of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide small businesses top-level consulting for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors including:
Stealth Intrusion Testing Consulting
Unannounced penetration testing is a key method for helping companies to determine how vulnerable their networks are to serious attacks by testing how well network security processes and mechanisms hold up to authorized but unpublicized intrusion attempts instigated by seasoned security engineers using advanced intrusion methods. Read additional details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the basic skills and international benchmarks of service that information security professionals are required to achieve. CISM offers executive management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to offer effective security administration and engineering support. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to help your enterprise in vital security areas including data security governance, risk assessment, information protection program management, and incident response support.
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified professional work, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, communications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.
ISSAP Engineering Services for Secure IT Architecture
Progent's ISSAP certified security consultants are experts who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and substantial hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have acquired in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security.
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-certified security engineer trained to assist companies in the fields of IS audit process, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and disaster recovery planning.
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to deliver support in key categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation topics such as assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, and web services security.
Contact Progent for Computer Security Help
If your organization is situated in Denver or elsewhere in Colorado and you want security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at security-help@progent.com.
Years of experience providing Microsoft expertise and Cisco network consulting has enabled Progent to develop a unique capability for serving branch offices that need network help with the flexibility common to with small firms but which includes effective communications, complete documentation, and compliance with enterprise IT standards. If your corporation has a remote office located anywhere in California or any region covered by Progent's consultants, Progent can provide a broad array of onsite and off-site network consulting services and system design assistance.
Cisco Unified Communications architecture for Voice over IP gives you the foundation and feature set for building a single converged communications system that can manage voice, video, and data traffic simultaneously. The Unified Communications solution provides this functionality while maintaining a high degree of network reliability, QoS, and security. Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you benefit from Cisco IP telephony technology. Progent’s IP telephony engineers can evaluate your current IT system and Internet connectivity infrastructure to determine whether your environment is optimized to support VoIP technology efficiently, assist you to choose and deploy Cisco products that make sense for your current requirements as well as tomorrow's expansion plans, and integrate your Cisco Voice over IP system with technology from other vendors. Progent is able to offer expertise in all of Cisco IP Telephony offerings such as Cisco Unity and Cisco Communications Manager Express.
Progent's certified Microsoft Data Protection Manager support professionals can assist your company to create an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, install a Microsoft DPM-powered backup and restore solution, comprehensively test your system, train your IT staff or regular service providers how to maintain Data Protection Manager, or provide extensive information technology support outsourcing including remote hosting of Microsoft Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's secure data center.
The sophistication and connectivity requirements of Microsoft Windows Servers requires an IT consulting team with hands-on experience and broad knowledge in designing and integrating cohesive, end-to-end network technology systems. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants, which averages more than 10 years working with Microsoft integration, ensures you success deploying Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 to match closely with your strategic objectives. Progent’s IT support can help you with designing, deploying, managing, and supporting Windows Server systems that maximize the productivity of your IT system. Progent’s consultants can help you with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, or Microsoft Windows NT Server so they efficiently support Windows XP and other clients.
Progent’s Cisco Voice Over IP professionals offer expert evaluation, integration and troubleshooting help for Cisco VoIP technology. Cisco Architecture for Voice Video and Integrated Data technology provides the infrastructure and tools for creating a single integrated network that can manage voice, video, and data traffic at the same time. AVVID offers this functionality while maintaining a high level of system uptime, Quality of Service, and protection. Key advantages of IP communications solutions based on Cisco AVVID VoIP architecture include a versatile, open migration ability that permits you to select IP Communications products that meet your existing needs, while offering an easy path for accelerating IP adoption, QoS mechanisms that help ensure high voice quality via tight control of delay, loss and jitter, and network administration tools that support network administration, operations, repair, configuring, fault monitoring, and element management. Progent’s Cisco-qualified technology experts can show you how to design a robust VoIP phone system built around Cisco IP PBX and Cisco IP Telephony products. Progent’s Voice over IP experts can help you select and deploy Cisco software that makes sense for your small or mid-size organization, such as Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco CallManager, or Cisco CallManager Express.
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, performance, and high availability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform,minimizing common OS-specific security gaps. PIX firewalls offer multiple integrated security and networking services, including cutting edge application-aware firewall services, Voice over IP and multimedia security, site-to-site and mobile access IPSec VPN connectivity, intelligent networking services, and flexible management options. The Cisco ASA 5500 Series leverage technology developed for firewalls from Cisco's PIX 500 family. Progent’s IT security experts can show you how to choose and deploy any PIX or ASA firewalls such as the the Cisco PIX 506E, the PIX 525 Firewall, and the ASA 5540 Firewall.
Progent offers high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced program, network infrastructure routing, and content delivery technology such as F5 Networks 3DNS. non-stop load balancing vendors for which Progent offers consulting services include Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Metaframe and Presentation Server, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Content Engine and LocalDirector 400 series, and F5 Networks 3-DNS.
Progent provides national remote help and troubleshooting services for companies who operate Apple Mac networks or whose information systems include a mix of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows technology. Online IT help offers optimum return for your information technology dollar by protecting client productivity and limiting the time billed for computer repair services. Advanced online support utilities and experienced technicians and consultants allow Progent to handle most network issues without wasting time and expense by going to your site. In the vast majority of cases your network problems can be dealt with over the phone or through a mix of telephone help and remote network analysis. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network engineers and CISA and CISM qualified security professionals to assist you with the most challenging network issues.
Our Experts Group offers consulting in key technologies that include Apple OS networking and programs; Consulting for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun systems; MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management expertise; Line-of-business and vertical application help; Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project management outsourcing; Custom applications design and integration; Web site, eCommerce, Electronic Data Interchange, and customer information portal development and integration; SQL support and efficiency consulting; Business information consulting; and Telecommunications systems consulting.
Progent’s Cisco-certified network consultants can provide consulting for Cisco routers that includes integration and maintenance services plus experienced Cisco IOS software consulting. Progent's services for Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic fail-through, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and network availability. Cisco routers for small to medium sized businesses include Cisco 800 Series Routers, Cisco 1700 Series Routers, the Cisco 1750 Modular Access Router, the Cisco 1751 Modular Access Router, the Cisco 1760 Access Router, Cisco 2500 Router, Cisco 2600 Series Routers, Cisco 3600 Routers, and Cisco 3700 Series Routers. The Cisco 800 Router Series securely connects small offices and off-site telecommuters to the Internet or to the company network via ISDN, DSL, Ethernet or serial connections. Cisco 1700 Router Series modular access routers are designed to provide an economical, integrated e-business platform for small and midsize businesses. They provide flexibility and manageability to handle complex e-business requirements, such as seamless data/voice/video/fax integration, high-performance broadband Internet access, and comprehensive security solutions. Cisco 2600 Routers are a family of modular multiservice access routers for remote offices, offering flexible local area network and wide area network options, multiple security selections, and a range of high speed CPUs. The Cisco 3700 Router Series is a family of modular, multiservice access platforms for mid-sized and large-sized offices. With more than 70 modular interface components, the Cisco 3700 product line provides solutions for data, voice video, hybrid dial access, VPNs, and multiprotocol data routing.
Progent’s computer outsourcing support offerings for small businesses include designing 2003 Server, Microsoft .NET Server, and Microsoft BackOffice systems, coordinating upgrades to Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk Call Center, remote and in-person repair, resolving chronic IT problems, and creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent can help you maximize system reliability and performance via fault-tolerant technologies, resilient network topology, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also offers special project help for major upgrades and can help with requirements assessment, resource identification, bill of materials development, sourcing selection, purchasing coordination, and complete documentation. Progent’s computer outsourcing help also includes education for office productivity programs such as Office XP.
