Urgent Security Support and Vulnerability Auditing
for Montgomery Small Company IT Networks
For urgent assistance with network security issues, small businesses in Montgomery, AL, can find expert expertise online from Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are ready at any time to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for environments based on Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's broad selection of consulting services addresses firewall technology, e-mail systems, secure system architecture, and data recovery. Progent's technical support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including CISA and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Progent provides remote security assistance on a by-the-minute basis without minimum call duration and without extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By charging by the minute and by providing top level help, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and eliminates situations where quick fixes entail big bills.
Our System Has Been Attacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your network is currently experiencing a network security emergency, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support to find out how to receive fast help.
For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the step-by-step post-attack response model outlined by GIAC is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.
Overview of Security Expertise
Coordinating computer protection as well as preparedness for restoring vital information and systems following an attack demands an on-going effort involving a variety of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your organization at whatever level in your efforts to guard your IT system, from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Important areas supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Failure Analysis, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.
Planning and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization should have a thoroughly considered security plan that includes both preventive and responsive activity. The pre-attack plan is a collection of precautions that helps to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your company processes. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and execute a secure network infrastructure, and propose processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, deploy protected offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network.
If you are interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services include automated online network monitoring and fast response to emergencies.
System Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in restoring networks and servers that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security attack. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the assault, restore normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's security engineers can also manage a thorough forensic evaluation by going over activity logs and using other proven assessment techniques. Progent's experience with security issues reduces your downtime and permits Progent to suggest effective measures to avoid or contain future attacks.
Backup and Restore Strategies Built on Data Protection Manager (DPM)
System Center Data Protection Manager is a ground breaking data backup and restore solution centered around high-speed disk systems to optimize availability, throughput, and manageability. Progent's certified Data Protection Manager consultants can assist your company to develop an effective business continuity strategy, design a cost-effective high-availability network infrastructure, deploy a Data Protection Manager-based backup and restore solution, comprehensively test your DPM system, educate your IT staff or local service providers how to maintain Microsoft DPM, or provide complete IT outsourcing services such as remote hosting of virtual or physical DPM machines in Progent's world-class data center. To learn more, see Data Protection Manager (DPM) Consulting.
Outsourced Spam and Virus Filtering
Progent has teamed with Postini to offer small companies E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and email attacks before they can breach your network firewall. Read additional details concerning E-Mail Guard Outsourced Spam and Virus Blocking.
Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security engineers offer world-class consulting support in vital facets of IT protection such as:
Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security auditing utilities like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for performing a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with testing tools and can assist your company to analyze audit reports and react efficiently. Progent's certified security engineers also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important global security standards such as HIPPA, NIST, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless security including stationary wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Read more details concerning Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment.
Support for MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server provides policy-based protection, improved performance, and easy management of complex networks by providing both an advanced firewall and a Web acceleration server coordinated with Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server operating system. The ISA Server firewall delivers comprehensive data filtering, control of access rights, and traffic direction. The Web cache improves network throughput by storing frequently accessed Web data.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can offer the services of a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to show you how to select, configure, and manage Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Read more details about Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Help.
Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Expertise
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class technical support for Cisco's entire range of security and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and IS routers, wireless access points, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional details about Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting.
Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a wide array of protection solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide small businesses top-level support for security products from other important firewall and VPN vendors such as:
Unannounced Penetration Checking Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is a valuable technique for helping companies to find out how exposed their IT systems are to real-world attacks by revealing how effectively network security policies and mechanisms hold up to authorized but unpublicized penetration efforts launched by seasoned security specialists using advanced intrusion techniques. Get the details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and international benchmarks of service that IT security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have been awarded their CISM have the experience and skill to provide effective security administration and consulting support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified consultant to assist your organization in key security areas such as information protection governance, vulnerability assessment, data protection process management, and incident response support.
CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's CISSP consultants are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP status as a result of demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered under CISSP include security administration procedures, security design and models, access control methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.
ISSAP Consulting Services for Protected System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified security consultants are consultants who have earned ISSAP status after rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with network security design. ISSAP consultants have acquired comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.
CISA Professional Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-qualified security consultant trained to help businesses in the fields of information systems audit process, information technology administration, systems and architecture lifecycle, information technology service delivery, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Support Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified consultants for any of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC accreditation topics such as auditing networks, security incident response, traffic analysis, and web-based services security.
Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Help
If your company is located in Montgomery or elsewhere in the state of Alabama and you're looking for computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email security-help@progent.com.
If you have a company IT system with 10 to 50 network users, Progent's IT outsourcing services free your company from over-reliance on an individual independent service provider while giving you cost-effective and reliable access to high-quality technical support. By providing IT consulting help when you need it, offering specialized knowledge for key applications, delivering value-added services such as 24x7 server monitoring, and charging only for support you use, Progent offers you an economical solution for maximizing the business value of your small business information system. Progent is the smart way for small businesses to create and maintain a reliable and safe information network and to benefit from quick access to the experienced support typically restricted to enterprises who can afford a large internal IT group.
Progent’s team of Microsoft and Cisco qualified consultants average longer than a decade of real-world industry background, in the trenches of network service, performing a wide range of IT projects for an extensive mix of businesses. Each Progent support professional shares a refined set of individual best practices which are incorporated into company-wide best practices standards that Progent instills in its support staff. This means that you get not only expert technical skills, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for using technical knowledge to resolve real-world IT problems efficiently.
Progent's work environment will make you a more capable consulting professional by enhancing your information technology skills and increasing the loyalty of your clients. Progent delivers this commitment by attracting the top professional talent for you to work with, offering an advanced system infrastructure, using custom software utilities to enable the maximum level of support, and by streamlining our operational structures for attracting and maintaining customers.
Microsoft Certified Expert Microsoft Great Plains Accounting Information Technology Consulting Technical Support
The open structure of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains makes it possible to develop specialized programs that have all of the basic capability of proven Microsoft GP solutions but also meet the particular needs of your business. With use of the Modifier included with Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, program designers can use the most widely used development environment in the industry to modify Microsoft Great Plains information views, add or edit business logic, define forms and reports, or expand interaction with Microsoft Office applications. Progent's expertise with Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server consulting, and programming experience with VBasic, XML and other developer platforms make it possible to write custom line-of-business software and web commerce solutions that work transparently with Microsoft GP.
Microsoft Mac Office allows Apple Macintosh users to receive the benefits of the world's most popular business applications. Progent's Apple-certified Mac consultants can help you configure Mac Office on a mixed-platform environment that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows-powered platforms so that Macintosh users can access the new capabilities of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share information and system resources with colleagues who run Microsoft Windows. Progent's engineers have experience with both Mac and Windows technology and can provide service for environments that combine Apple Macintosh with Microsoft Windows computers with extensive resource sharing, or networks which intentionally restrict collaboration between Mac and Windows users.
Progent is among the most qualified information technology consulting companies in Northern California for integrating email and messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent is skilled in helping small companies derive the full advantages of Exchange Server 2000 under typical situations such as updating from Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Server, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and jobbing out your Exchange 2000 Server administration.
Progent’s Microsoft certified experts provide small and midsize companies experienced support services for Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005 offer extensible and scalable enterprise-class operational management by providing comprehensive event management, proactive monitoring and alerts, reporting and trend profiling, and network and application-specific heuristics and tasks to increase the control of Windows Server System networks. Through built-in application profiles, System Center Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005 allow you to identify your IT reliability problems before they become disasters, improve the payback of your IT operations through specified best practices, and support your IT operations and senior management through sharing critical service level and performance data. Progent’s Microsoft Operations Manager consulting engineers have extensive field-proven experience with Operations Manager 2007 and 2005 and can help your company install and configure MOM in order to maximize the reliability and productivity of your IT system.
Progent’s staff of Microsoft and Cisco certified experts average longer than a decade of hands-on industry background, at the front lines of IT service, executing a wide variety of technical projects for an extensive array of customers. Every Progent support professional shares a refined collection of personal best practices which are incorporated into shared best practices standards that Progent instills in its consulting team. This ensures that you get not only expert technical skills, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for using technical knowledge to resolve real-world network problems quickly.
Progent's Data Center engineers can show you how to identify fault-tolerant data centers that meet the specific requirements of your business. High availability colocation sites are especially appealing to small businesses due to of their low cost and simplified logistics compared to pursuing a do-it-yourself approach. Trying to design an in-house data center with even a basic level of fault tolerance is financially prohibitive for typical small businesses. Progent can help you reap all the advantages of non-stop data centers and fault tolerant colo sites by providing a complete array of engineering and support services.
SQL Server 2005 offers indispensable, familiar tools to IT experts as well as to information workers, reducing the complexity of designing, deploying, administering, and accessing company data and analytical applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to corporate information systems. The complexity and interconnectivity requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 require a network consultant with hands-on experience and wide knowledge in planning and building data-driven, end-to-end business technology solutions. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of over 10 years of professional work involving Microsoft technology, ensures you success in planning, deploying and managing Microsoft SQL Server 2005 applications that are seamlessly integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's Cisco-qualified network consultants can assist you to run Cisco's management utilities along with a selection of powerful third-party applications to create a comprehensive network management strategy in order to keep your environment operating reliably, conserve expensive resources, guard your data, recover quickly from device failure or malicious assaults, and enable you to expand or repurpose network resources sensibly and economically as your company grows.
Progent's pricing model is to charge for phone support and in-person visits per minute. Consequently, you are billed only for received services. Progent does not demand a more expensive rate for after-hours or priority service, and inside California or in areas where Progent offers on-site support, Progent does not bill for travel except for urgent support where on-site time is less than four hours. Also, Progent imposes no minimum fee and requires no monthly commitment. Many support firms demand substantial minimum payments or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's small granularity eliminates large bills for quick fixes so you won't be forced to allow minor problems to fester.
Progent's Experts Team offers support in key fields that include Apple OS networking and applications; Consulting for Linux-powered, UNIX-based, and Sun environments; MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or Customer Relationship Management consulting; Mission-critical and specialized application support; Chief Information Officer, business analyst, and project logistics services; Special applications development and integration; Web, electronic business, EDI, and client portal design and integration; Database support and efficiency consulting; Management intelligence consulting; and Telecom architecture support.
