Online Security Consulting and Compliance Assessment for Los Angeles Small Company Network Systems
For urgent help with computer security issues, small businesses in Los Angeles, CA, have access to world-class expertise remotely from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service staff is available on a 24x7 basis to offer effective and affordable help with security crises that are impacting the productivity of your network. Progent's security engineers are qualified to support systems powered by Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide selection of consulting services covers firewall technology, e-mail security, protected system design, and information restoration. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.
Progent provides online security expertise on a by-the-minute model without minimum times and without additional fees for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top level expertise, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into big expenses.
Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If you are currently experiencing a network security crisis, visit Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support to see how to get fast help.
For organizations that have planned carefully for being hacked, the formal post-attack response model outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of handling a major security incident.
Introduction to Progent's Security Support Services
Coordinating data protection plus preparation for restoring critical data and functions after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security consultants can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your information network, from security evaluation to creating a complete security program. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Prevention, Data Restoration and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.
Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Any organization ought to develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of steps that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist IT personnel to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the event, and restore business functions as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to e-mail and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.
If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Options feature automated online system monitoring and fast response to problems.
System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are suspect, or have ceased to function because of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to ordinary business operations, and retrieve information lost owing to the event. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other advanced forensics tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient ways to prevent or contain new attacks.
Backup and Restore Planning Built on Microsoft DPM
Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a revolutionary fault tolerant backup and recovery technology based on high-speed disk systems to improve network uptime, performance, and ease of administration. Progent's certified Microsoft DPM support professionals can help you to develop a practical business continuity plan, design an affordable fault-tolerant network infrastructure, deploy a Data Protection Manager-powered backup and restore system, comprehensively validate your system, educate your administrative personnel or regular service providers how to maintain DPM, or provide extensive information technology outsourcing such as remote hosting of Microsoft Data Protection Manager servers in Progent's world-class data center facility. To find out more, visit Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Outsourced Spam and Virus Blocking
Progent has teamed with Postini to offer small and midsize companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and email threats before they can breach your network firewall. Find out additional information about E-Mail Guard Managed Spam and Virus Blocking.
Specialized Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide world-class support in key facets of network protection such as:
Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a set of comprehensive network scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with scanning utilities and can help your company to analyze assessment results and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also provide web application testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important worldwide security standards including FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.
Managing Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Microsoft ISA Server offers policy-based security, enhanced throughput, and easy administration of complex networks by providing both a firewall and a Web cache mechanism coordinated with Microsoft's Microsoft Windows 2003 Server operating system. The firewall provides extensive security filtering, management of connectivity policy, and traffic routing. The Web cache improves network throughput by remembering repeatedly requested Web content.
Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can offer the services of a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to choose, configure, and manage Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Get additional information about Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise.
Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver in-depth consulting support for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.
Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a broad array of network security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers small and mid-size organizations top-level engineering services for products from other important firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers including:
Stealth Intrusion Testing Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is a key technique for allowing businesses to understand how vulnerable their information systems are to serious threats by testing how well corporate security processes and mechanisms hold up to planned but unannounced penetration efforts instigated by veteran security specialists utilizing the latest intrusion techniques. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
CISM Security Support Services
CISM defines the core skills and international benchmarks of performance that information security managers are required to achieve. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their certification possess the background and skill to offer efficient security management and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, risk assessment, data protection program control, and incident response support.
CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have been awarded CISSP certification as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP qualification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered within CISSP include security management practices, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals Consulting Services for Secure IT Architecture
Progent's ISSAP qualified security consultants are experts who have earned ISSAP certification after rigorous testing and substantial experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security.
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-qualified security audit professional able to assist companies in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology administration, network assets and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding data resources, and business continuity preparedness.
Global Information Assurance Certification Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in important categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the help of certified professionals for any of the security disciplines addressed under GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, security incident response, intrusion detection, and web application security.
Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your business is located in Los Angeles or anywhere in the state of California and you want computer security engineering help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at security-help@progent.com.
If your business computer system combines Sun Solaris technology with Windows, Progent can show you how to integrate your computers into a cohesive environment that permits all your OS platforms to run side by side for simple management, seamless information exchange, high availability, superior throughput, and strong security. Progent's Solaris and Microsoft Windows coexistence assistance services include network architecture configuration and support, consulting for Windows services for UNIX, remote server monitoring and management, online network help and repair, in-person technical support, and help desk services.
Progent’s Microsoft certified experts offer a variety of consulting services for Great Plains. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 is a Microsoft financial package and business management solution based, like all Microsoft financial solutions, on the scalable and popular platform of Microsoft Windows technology. Great Plains 10.0, the most recent version of Microsoft financial products in the Great Plains Accounting family, provides an affordable tool for controlling and integrating finances, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, CRM, and HR. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 is simple to deploy and configure, and with its segmented design you are able to purchase only the capability you currently require, with the option to add users and enlarge capabilities when necessary. Progent’s Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Software consulting engineers can show you how to deploy, customize and administer Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 as well as earlier editions of Great Plains including Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 9.0 and Microsoft Great Plains 8.0.
Cisco's security and offsite connectivity technology for small to mid-size businesses represent a full array of easy-to-administer protection products to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and VPN solutions. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and CCNP qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your corporate objectives.
Mid-sized businesses can get all the benefits of Microsoft Operations Manager and have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified IT support professionals. Thanks to Progent's economically priced IT support programs, medium-size organizations can select a basic MOM-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, proactive alerts, in-depth system analysis, Help Desk support, and remote service. For businesses with line-of-business applications who need high availability networking, Progent can provide a complete round-the-clock outsourcing package. Progent offers expertise in MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to provide medium-size company networks enterprise-class availability, protection and performance.
Progent’s Microsoft qualified experts provide small and midsize businesses experienced support services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and MOM 2000. MOM 2005 delivers extensible and expandable high-end system management by featuring comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, reporting and trend profiling, and network and application-specific intelligence and tasks to increase the control of Windows Server System environments. Through built-in application profiles, Microsoft MOM 2005 helps you identify your IT health problems before they grow into disasters, increase the payback of your network operations via specified best practices, and support your IT operations and senior management by sharing critical service level and performance information. Progent’s MOM consulting experts have extensive field-proven familiarity with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your company install and configure MOM in order to maximize the availability and efficiency of your IT network.
Progent's pricing policy is to charge for remote support and in-person help by the minute. As a result, you are invoiced exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not impose a higher rate for after-hours or emergency support, and within California or in areas where Progent offers in-person support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than four hours. In addition, Progent applies no initialization fee and asks no retainer. Many service firms impose large minimum fees or charge for every fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity eliminates big bills for quick repairs so you will not be forced to permit simple problems to stay unaddressed.
Progent is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has earned accredited competencies that include Information Worker Solutions. Microsoft Gold Certified Partners represent the most successful Microsoft Business Partners who receive the highest customer endorsement and are afforded the tightest working relationship with Microsoft. The knowledge, capabilities, and commitment required to earn the level of Microsoft Gold Certified Partner pays dividends to Progent's customers by enabling Progent to provide your company more complete technical solutions for your IT network.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants can offer small and mid-sized companies advanced Microsoft SQL Server help. Microsoft SQL Server is a complete, web-ready database and data analysis package that opens the door to the rapid creation of enterprise-class business applications that offer your company a competitive advantage. SQL Server provides core support for XML and the ability to query over the Internet and beyond the corporate firewall. In addition to providing consulting, support and troubleshooting services, Progent’s SQL consultants can help you use Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Microsoft SQL Server Business Intelligence to enhance the business value of your information network. Progent can also help you upgrade from earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server to SQL Server 2005.
Progent's Cisco-certified network management consultants can assist you to run Cisco's management utilities alongside a variety of powerful third-party products to create a complete network management solution to keep your network operating reliably, conserve limited resources, protect your data, revive rapidly from device failure or deliberate assaults, and enable you to expand or reassign network resources sensibly and economically as your business evolves.
Progent's Apple Mac networking engineers can assist you with a broad range of system foundation issues including system architecture, off-site and mobile access, internetwork compatibility, security, and new technologies such as VoIP and fast wireless connectivity. For company networks based solely on Apple Mac OS X or for systems that use a mix of Mac, Linux/UNIX and Windows based servers and workstations, Progent has the knowledge and depth to handle the complexity of planning, integrating, and maintaining a network infrastructure that is robust, secure, productive and supportive of your corporate goals. Progent can help you deploy Apple’s Xserve enterprise servers, Apple's Xserve RAID fault-tolerant storage systems, and Apple's Xsan storage area network solution. Progent can also provide certified experts to support Cisco routers and switches.
Even if your company has a small network services group and a limited IT budget, your information network can still have the same high reliability and responsiveness that once needed a large internal support group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of world-class Microsoft-certified and Cisco-qualified network professionals, the most recent network management products for 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective support programs such as a help desk service to keep your vital business applications and hardware operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include remote system monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to reduce service expenses, fix problems quickly, and anticipate issues before they degrade system performance. Progent is experienced at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative built on Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to deliver comprehensive event management. Progent can help with MOM 2000 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 to give small company systems enterprise-class reliability, security and capacity.
By using virtual servers, companies are able to operate multiple virtual servers on a single physical server. Virtualization technology enables companies to enjoy all the advantages of server isolation, but without the expense associated with buying additional server hardware. Other key server management technologies are server monitoring utilities, Windows Server Update Services, and remote server management cards. Progent's professional server management consultants can help you in all aspects of server virtualization and management to enable your company to cut costs and save time.
Progent's certified Windows 2000 Server experts can provide network support and information technology consulting services for the entire family of Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers, Windows 2000 Server, and Windows Server 2003. Progent's Windows 2000 Server integration, update, and troubleshooting services include network design, deployment, project management, local and off-site technical support, Help Desk outsourcing, expert security analysis, full service outsourcing, and cost-effective co-sourcing.
