Online Security Support and Vulnerability Audting for Omaha Small Company Networks
For immediate assistance with data security issues, small businesses in Omaha, NE, have access to world-class support online by contacting Progent's security professionals. Progent's remote support staff is available round the clock to provide efficient and low-cost assistance with security crises that are impacting the viability of your IT network. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to provide help for systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide range of services encompasses firewall configuration, email systems, secure system design, and information restoration. Progent's support staff has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including Certified Information Systems Auditor and CISSP.
Progent offers online security support on a by-the-minute basis without minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or off-hour service. By billing by the minute and by providing world-class expertise, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses low and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions turn into major bills.
We've Been Hacked: What Should We Do?
If you are now faced with a security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Online Computer Help to see how to receive immediate assistance.
For businesses that have planned in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response model promoted by GIAC is Progent's approved method of handling a serious security penetration.
Introduction to Small Business Security Support Services
Coordinating network security plus preparedness for restoring vital information and functions after a security breach demands a continual effort that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at all levels in your efforts to protect your information system, ranging from security assessments to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Protection from E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.
Designing and Implementing Secure Environments
Any company should have a carefully thought out security plan that includes both preventive and responsive steps. The proactive plan is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from an attack, remediate the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as quickly as possible. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can configure auditing software, create and build a safe computer infrastructure, and propose processes and policies that will maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy safe offsite connectivity to email and data, and install an efficient VPN.
If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services feature automated online network tracking and quick response to problems.
System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has skill in recovering systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security penetration. Progent can show you how to evaluate the losses caused by the breach, restore ordinary functions, and recover data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security specialists can also oversee a comprehensive failure evaluation by going over activity logs and utilizing a variety of advanced forensics techniques. Progent's background with security problems minimizes your off-air time and allows Progent to suggest effective measures to prevent or mitigate new assaults.
Backup and Restore Strategies Powered by System Center Data Protection Manager
System Center Data Protection Manager is a revolutionary data backup and restore solution centered around disk-to-disk systems to maximize reliability, speed, and manageability. Progent's expert System Center Data Protection Manager support professionals can assist your company to develop an effective disaster recovery strategy, implement an affordable non-stop network infrastructure, deploy a Microsoft DPM-based backup and restore system, thoroughly validate your system, educate your IT staff or local service providers how to manage Data Protection Manager, or provide complete IT outsourcing services such as off-site housing of Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's secure data center. To read more, go to Microsoft DPM Consulting and Support Services.
Outsourced Spam Filtering
Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and email-borne attacks before they are able to penetrate your network firewall. Get additional information about E-Mail Guard Managed Spam Blocking.
Special Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's certified security engineers can provide world-class support in vital areas of IT security including:
Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers experience with security auditing software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with these and similar tools and can help your company to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also offer web software validation and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with major industry security standards such as HIPPA, NIST, and ISO 17799. In addition, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment plus portable handsets. Get the details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing.
Support for Microsoft ISA Server 2006 MS ISA Server provides policy-based security, enhanced performance, and simple management of internetworking by incorporating both a firewall and a Web acceleration mechanism coordinated with Microsoft's Windows 2003 Server platform. The firewall provides extensive data filtering, management of access rights, and traffic direction. The Web cache improves network throughput by remembering repeatedly accessed Web content.
Progent's Microsoft ISA Server 2006 consulting service provides small businesses the expertise of certified engineers who can design and deploy a solution that matches your protection requirements without restricting system efficiency.
Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) to help you to select, deploy, and support Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls. Get additional information concerning Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Help.
Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals (CCNPs) can deliver world-class consulting expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and VPN solutions such as PIX 500 Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), secure high-speed and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, and Catalyst family switches. Get additional information concerning Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.
Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
In addition to supporting a wide range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide small companies expert support for products from other major firewall and VPN vendors including:
Stealth Penetration Checking Consulting
Unannounced penetration checking is a valuable technique for helping companies to understand how vulnerable their IT environments are to serious attacks by testing how effectively corporate protection processes and technologies stand up against planned but unannounced intrusion attempts launched by seasoned security engineers using advanced intrusion techniques. Find out more details about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager defines the core skills and international benchmarks of service that information technology security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have been awarded their accreditation possess the background and skill to provide efficient security administration and engineering support. Progent can provide a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in critical security areas such as data protection governance, risk assessment, information security program control, and crisis response support.
CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in an international standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP status accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, connection control systems, software development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals Engineering Support for Secure IT Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP qualified security experts are experts who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough examination and substantial experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts possess comprehensive knowledge of access management systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture.
Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-certified security engineer able to assist companies in the fields of information systems audit services, IT administration, systems and infrastructure planned useful life, information technology service delivery, protecting data assets, and business continuity preparedness.
Global Information Assurance Certification Support Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in key categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent offers the help of certified professionals for any of the security capabilities covered under GIAC certification programs including assessing security systems, incident handling, traffic analysis, and web application security.
Contact Progent for Computer Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Omaha or anywhere in Nebraska and you're trying to find network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or email security-help@progent.com.
Progent's disaster recovery planning and business continuity consultants can show you how to design a disaster recovery strategy to prepare for an IT system catastrophe. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that includes periodic disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also show you how to create an affordable, fault-tolerant system architecture that addresses availability issues covering a wide range of infrastructure technologies and processes.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals offer world-class support for major implementations of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent's experts can help you plan multi-location Exchange installations or updates and can supply local personnel to help enterprises with deployments of Exchange Server 2007 in the San Francisco Bay Area or any area covered by Progent's consultants.
Progent’s wireless engineers can help small businesses plan, select, test, install and support secure building-to-building wireless bridges that integrate transparently into your IT network while providing a level of protection that matches or excels wired interfaces. Progent provides expertise in wireless LAN technology from Cisco Aironet, Proxim, and other office wireless providers and can help you select and install the wireless connectivity technology that fit best with your business needs.
Progent’s Wireless Consulting Services offer a fast, affordable option for small business IT networks to integrate the latest wireless connectivity solutions. Few small companies have internal IT staffs with the time to keep up to date on the fast-changing world of wireless technology and services, and even fewer have the field experience to see through the hype and identify and configure the optimal products for Wi-Fi wireless LAN (WLAN), mobile connectivity, and small office wireless security. For 802.11 WiFi environments, Progent can help you design and install 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g compatible wireless link hardware such as the Cisco Aironet wireless access point. Progent can also help configure an appropriate level of 802.11x security. For wireless messaging and wireless Internet applications for mobile users, Progent can help with devices such as the Research In Motion Blackberry (RIM Blackberry) for wireless email, as well as wireless PDAs, smartphones, and Pocket PCs based on Windows Mobile operating systems with Activesync. Progent’s experience with the Proxim Tsunami wireless bridge allows you to test11:10 AM 6/27/2006 and implement building-to-building wireless access.
Progent’s Microsoft qualified consultants provide small and medium-size businesses experienced consulting services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and MOM 2000. Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 delivers open and scalable enterprise-class system management by providing detailed event management, 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, reporting and tendency profiling, and network and program-specific intelligence and tasks to improve the control of Windows Server System environments. Through built-in application intelligence, Microsoft MOM 2005 allows you to identify your system reliability problems before they grow into crises, increase the efficiency of your network operations through actionable best practices, and support your IT operations and senior administrative staff through sharing key service level and performance data. Progent’s MOM consulting experts have broad hands-on familiarity with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your company install and customize MOM in order to maximize the availability and productivity of your IT system.
VMware Server is a no-cost virtualization package that operates on Linux and Microsoft Windows Servers. VMware Server enables companies to segment a physical server into multiple virtual servers and to begin realizing the advantages of virtualization with minimal monetary outlay. VMware Virtual Server is a reliable yet simple to use solution for companies new to server virtualization technology and is based on VMware’s field-proven platform. VMware Virtual Server is well suited for developers, workgroups, and satellite offices who want to facilitate application development, test software in economical virtual machines, re-host legacy operating systems, and simplify server provisioning. Progent's skilled virtual server engineers can assist you with VMware Virtual Server, VMware GSX Server, and VMware Infrastructure 3 so your business can benefit from VMware server consolidation.
Cisco's security and remote access solutions for small to mid-size companies offer a complete array of manageable protection hardware and software to let you protect your entire information system. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Virtual Private Network access concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and CCNP certifications who can help your organization to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business goals.
Progent has created a sophisticated service reporting system that records and formats complete documentation for all billed services. Unlike many independent consultants or local support organizations who provide scant documentation or details of tasks performed, every service delivered by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Every Progent staff member has access to the service documentation transmitted by each consultant to each client. The discipline of detailing and archiving support records results in more effective support and avoids a variety of common problems such as when a service customer is virtually held hostage to a consultant who won’t release vital service information.
Progent offers technical services for medium size businesses with 50 to 250 network users. The medium size business or work group has traditionally been an underserved part of the market for network consulting services. The cost structures and support delivery practices of large third-party service organizations make them excessively costly for the typical mid-size company or small medium business (SMB), which usually relies on a minimal IT budget with which to maintain an information network whose complexity and capability are frequently similar to the information systems of far bigger enterprises. Progent's support delivery model, which takes great advantage of online support, virtual network technology and 24x7 network monitoring, significantly reduces the network support expenses of an SMB while providing the mid-size organization with big-company service from certified, IT consultants with background in a broad array of small business network solutions. If your medium size organization or small business is searching for the quality of network support needed for a mid-size office without paying enterprise costs, contact Progent.
Progent's Microsoft-certified support team can provide computer help and information technology expertise for Microsoft Operations Manager and for the growing family of Application Management Packs that extend the power of MOM to a wide array of business-critical applications. Progent supports MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to give small to mid-size business networks maximum reliability, security and speed. Progent can show you how to take full advantage of Microsoft Operations Manager by performing needs assessment, installation, configuration, customization, troubleshooting, Help Desk services, security consulting, and administration. With over five years of background working with the NetIQ technology upon which MOM is built, Progent's IT consulting experts can offer small companies enterprise-class support for MOM.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 20 years of background planning, installing, and maintaining email systems for San Francisco Bay Area clients. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange Servers consulting services to ensure that your email environment offers protection, fault tolerance, easy access for off-site and wireless users, time-saving management utilities, and productive integration with telephony. Progent offers consulting and support services for Exchange 2007 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server, Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, and Exchange Server 5.5. Progent can also assist small or mid-size businesses to upgrade from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Microsoft Exchange 2000, or Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
