Urgent Security Support Services and Vulnerability Testing for Miami Small Business Networks
For urgent assistance with data security issues, small businesses in Miami, FL, can find world-class support remotely by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online support consultants are available on a 24x7 basis to offer efficient and low-cost help with security problems that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services addresses firewall expertise, email systems, protected system architecture, and information restoration. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security accreditations including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.
Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without additional charges for setup or off-hour support. By billing per minute and by providing top level support, Progent's pricing model keeps expenses low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in big charges.
We've Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
In case your network is currently faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Computer Support to learn how to receive fast help.
For companies who have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal incident response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security attack.
Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Managing data protection as well as staying ready for recovering critical data and functions after an attack demands a continual process that entails a variety of technologies and processes. Progent's certified engineers can help your business at all levels in your efforts to guard your information network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security program. Important areas covered by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Protection from Email-Based Spam and Viruses.
Designing and Building Protected Environments
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security plan that includes both preventive and reactive activity. The proactive strategy is a collection of precautions that works to reduce security holes. The post-attack strategy defines activities to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses caused by an attack, remediate the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up scanning software, define and build a safe IT infrastructure, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy secure online and mobile connectivity to email and information, and configure an effective virtual private network.
If your company is interested in an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Services include automated remote system monitoring and immediate resolution of problems.
Data Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in recovering networks and devices that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security breakdown. Progent can help assess the losses caused by the breach, return your company to normal functions, and retrieve data compromised as a result of the event. Progent's security specialists can also perform a thorough forensic analysis by examining event logs and using other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your off-air time and permits Progent to recommend efficient measures to avoid or mitigate future attacks.
Fault Tolerant Backup and Recovery Strategies Powered by Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a powerful backup and recovery solution based on fast disk systems to maximize reliability, throughput, and ease of administration. Progent's certified Data Protection Manager (DPM) consultants can assist you to develop an effective business continuity plan, design an affordable fault-tolerant IT infrastructure, install a Microsoft Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore solution, thoroughly validate your system, train your administrative staff or local consultants how to manage DPM, or handle extensive information technology outsourcing including off-site housing of DPM servers in Progent's data center. For details, go to Microsoft DPM Consulting and Support Services.
Outsourced Spam and Virus Blocking
Progent has partnered with Postini to provide small and midsize businesses E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and email-borne attacks before they can penetrate your network firewall. Get more details concerning E-Mail Guard Managed Spam Blocking.
Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified consultants can provide unique support in key facets of network security including:
Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides expertise with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system tests to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these utilities and can help your company to understand assessment reports and react efficiently. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform thorough assessments of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with key global security specifications such as HIPPA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering fixed wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Assessment.
Managing MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 provides policy-based protection, improved performance, and easy administration of internetworking by incorporating both an advanced firewall and a Web cache mechanism integrated with Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server platform. The ISA Server firewall provides extensive data filtering, management of connectivity policy, and traffic routing. The Web cache enhances network performance by remembering frequently requested Web data.
Progent's Microsoft ISA Server engineering expertise provides small companies the expertise of network security engineers who know how to design and deploy a configuration that supports your protection needs without limiting network efficiency.
Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Support
Progent can offer the services of a Cisco CCIE engineer or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to select, deploy, and support Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Read additional information concerning Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Consulting.
Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco CCNP experts can provide in-depth technical services for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, protected high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, and Catalyst family switches. Read the details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help.
Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of security solutions from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide small and mid-size organizations top-level support for technologies from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers such as:
Stealth Penetration Checking Services
Unannounced penetration checking is a valuable method for helping organizations to find out how exposed their information systems are to potential attacks by testing how effectively corporate security policies and mechanisms hold up to planned but unpublicized penetration efforts instigated by seasoned security engineers using advanced intrusion techniques. Read more details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
CISM Security Consulting Expertise
CISM identifies the fundamental skills and international benchmarks of performance that IT security managers are required to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM have the background and skill to offer effective security management and engineering services. Progent can provide a CISM expert to help your enterprise in critical security areas including information security governance, vulnerability assessment, information protection program management, and crisis handling support.
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated professional work, extensive study, and formal testing. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for IT security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, Internet security, and disaster recovery planning.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals Engineering Services for Protected IT Architecture
Progent's ISSAP certified security experts are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP consultants have comprehensive knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all phases of architecture security.
CISA Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-qualified security audit consultant trained to assist businesses in the areas of information systems audit services, IT governance, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery planning.
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in key categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent can provide the help of GIAC certified consultants for any of the security services addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, security incident response, intrusion detection, and web-based services security.
Depend on Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in Miami or elsewhere in Florida and you want security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at security-help@progent.com.
Cisco's network security and remote access products for small companies provide a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, Cisco Aironet wireless appliances, and additional Cisco security technologies that align best with your business goals.
Progent's Network Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services are intended especially for small businesses who require immediate availability of a Help Desk Service Center with professional phone support and full escalation options but who have to work within a modest IT budget. Important components of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services are Helpdesk Support,
Secure Remote Access Provisioning, System Evaluation, Expert Prioritization, Virtual Help Desk Call Center Support, By-the-Minute Billing, and Help Desk Call Center Applications Selection and Integration.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, free monitoring utilities that operate with Linux and can be deployed to monitor UNIX environments, MS Windows systems, or mixed-OS environments where Linux and MS Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor allows system support engineers to monitor network services including POP3, HTTP, SSH, and NNTP. MRTG allows you to track the traffic through SNMP network appliances such as processors, routers, and switches. Progent's system monitoring experts can help you utilize both these programs to streamline and troubleshoot your network.
Progent offers IT support for mid-size businesses with 50 to 250 network clients. The medium size company or office has traditionally been an underserved part of the market for network support expertise. The overhead and support delivery practices of major outside support firms make them too costly for the ordinary mid-size company or small medium business (SMB), which commonly relies on a minimal IT budget with which to maintain an information system whose complexity and capability are often similar to the information systems of far bigger companies. Progent's support delivery model, which takes full advantage of remote support, virtual network technology and proactive server monitoring, dramatically reduces the network maintenance costs of a small-medium business while offering the small organization with enterprise-level service from professional, IT consultants with background in a broad range of midsized business technologies. If your medium size company or small business is looking for levels of network help needed by a medium size organization without budgeting enterprise costs, call Progent.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 offers powerful, familiar tools to IT experts as well as to information workers, reducing the difficulty of designing, deploying, administering, and using enterprise information and database applications on platforms ranging from mobile devices to enterprise data systems. The sophistication and interconnectivity requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for a network consultant with hands-on experience and broad knowledge in designing and building information-based, end-to-end business IT applications. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of background supporting Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET environment.
Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants offer small and medium-size companies expert consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000. Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 delivers open and expandable high-end system management by providing comprehensive event management, 24x7 monitoring and alerts, recording and tendency profiling, and system and application-specific heuristics and tasks to increase the control of Windows Server System environments. Through built-in application profiles, Microsoft MOM 2005 allows you to isolate your system health problems before they become crises, increase the payback of your network operations via actionable best practices, and support your network operations and senior management through sharing critical service level and performance information. Progent’s MOM consulting experts have broad field-proven experience with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your company install and configure MOM in order to maximize the reliability and productivity of your information system.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Systems Management Server consultants have extensive experience helping small and mid-size businesses save time and money by using SMS 2003 to manage configuration and change processes. Progent can show you how to install Systems Management Server to reduce change and configuration management expenses, enhance system security, maximize output by keeping applications up-to-date, enforce compliance with software licenses, and record software usage profiles to help you make smart buying choices. Progent can help you benefit from SMS 2003's cost-saving features for automated software installation and application deployment, security patch management, asset management, plus software and hardware inventory control. Progent's expertise with remote support can further leverage the economic benefits of Microsoft SMS 2003 and Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified security professionals can show you how to create a complete security strategy that incorporates the cutting-edge security functions of Systems Management Server. Progent also offers high-end support for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), which is a vital part of Microsoft's System Center 2005 solution for automated network management.
Progent's UNIX family support services provide small companies and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that coexist with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your business access to UNIX consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISSP certification. This broad array of experience offers you a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and maintain a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining Windows with major versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX (Hewlett Packard UNIX), BSD, SCO and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat, SuSE, Debian-GNU and Slackware.
Microsoft Virtual Server, run on the Windows Server operating system and powered by technology first developed by Connectix, delivers the performance necessary to carry out server consolidation, software upgrade, and server quarantine projects via virtualization technology in an enterprise-ready computing environment with high scalability, manageability, and fault tolerance. Microsoft has aimed Virtual Server at businesses who want to enhance operational efficiency in application development and testing, migration from outdated mission-critical software, and server consolidation. Progent's professional Virtual Server experts can assist your business to evaluate and integrate MS Virtual Server 2005.
Progent can show you how to plan and execute a smooth migration to Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 so that you retain your information, improve your protection, modernize your analytics, take complete advantage of Microsoft Office support, and minimize business interruption by creating and executing a sensible migration strategy. Progent can also help educate new Microsoft Dynamics GP users so you don't lose productivity. Progent can improve your financial reports and business analytics by providing Crystal Reports consulting, FRx assistance, and Microsoft Excel expertise. Progent's background with Microsoft .NET development, Microsoft SQL Server applications, and programming with VBasic, XML and other platforms make it possible to produce specialized business software and eCommerce programs that integrate seamlessly with Great Plains.
If your business runs a Sun Solaris environment or a multi-OS IT environment, Progent's CISM and ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your entire enterprise in a wide range of security areas including security management practices, security architecture and strategies, connection management systems and methodology, software development security, business processes security, physical security, communications, network and web security, and business continuity preparedness. CISM and CISSP stipulate the fundamental skills and international standards of performance that network security managers are required to master. These accreditations provide IT management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM or CISSP qualification have demonstrated the experience and theory to offer effective security management and consulting services.
