Remote Security Consulting and Vulnerability Audting for Rochester Small Office Network Systems
For immediate assistance with network security problems, small companies in Rochester, NY, can find expert support online by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's online service consultants are available at any time to provide efficient and low-cost help with security emergencies that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited security consultants are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple, Sun, and major versions of UNIX. Progent's wide array of services encompasses firewall expertise, e-mail security, protected system design, and information restoration. Progent's support team has earned the industry's top security credentials including GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) and ISSAP.
Progent provides online security assistance on a per-minute model with no minimum call duration and without additional fees for setup or after hours support. By billing by the minute and by delivering top level expertise, Progent's billing policy keeps expenses under control and avoids scenarios where simple fixes turn into major expenses.
We've Been Attacked: What Can We Do?
In case your business is currently experiencing a security emergency, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support to see how to get immediate assistance.
For companies who have planned in advance for a security breech, the formal post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's approved method of responding to a major security incident.
Introduction to Small Business Security Services
Managing data security as well as preparation for recovering critical information and functions after an attack requires an on-going process involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified experts can help your business at whatever level in your attempt to secure your information network, ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Key technologies covered by Progent's experts include Security Planning and Implementation, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Threats.
Designing and Building Protected Networks
Any organization ought to develop a carefully considered security plan that includes both proactive and responsive steps. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that works to reduce security holes. The post-attack strategy defines activities to help IT staff to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, record the event, and restore network activity as soon as feasible. Progent can advise you how to incorporate protection into your business operations. Progent can set up auditing utilities, create and implement a secure computer architecture, and recommend procedures and policies that will maximize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and data, and configure an effective virtual private network.
If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's 24x7 Monitoring Services feature non-stop remote network tracking and quick response to emergencies.
System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent offers expertise in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are suspect, or have failed because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the assault, return your company to normal business operations, and retrieve data lost owing to the breach. Progent's certified specialists can also oversee a thorough forensic evaluation by going over event logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security problems reduces your business disruption and permits Progent to recommend efficient ways to prevent or mitigate future assaults.
Backup and Restore Planning Based on Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a revolutionary data backup and recovery product centered around fast disk subsystems to improve availability, speed, and ease of administration. Progent's expert Microsoft DPM consultants can assist you to create a practical business continuity strategy, design an affordable high-availability network infrastructure, deploy a Data Protection Manager-based backup and recovery solution, comprehensively validate your system, educate your IT staff or regular consultants how to maintain DPM, or handle extensive IT outsourcing including off-site housing of virtual or physical DPM machines in Progent's world-class data center facility. To find out more, go to System Center Data Protection Manager Expertise.
Managed Spam Filtering
Progent has teamed with Postini to offer small and midsize companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that intercepts spam and email viruses before they are able to breach your corporate firewall. Learn more information concerning E-Mail Guard Outsourced Spam and Virus Blocking.
Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of computer protection including:
Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing
Progent offers expertise with security auditing utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of automatic system scans to reveal possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist your company to understand audit results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software testing and can perform thorough evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with important industry security standards such as HIPPA, PCI, and ISO. In addition, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering fixed wireless equipment as well as mobile handsets. Learn more details about Progent's Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.
Setting up Microsoft ISA Server MS ISA Server offers rules-based protection, improved performance, and easy management of internetworking by incorporating both an advanced firewall and a Web cache mechanism integrated with Microsoft's MS Windows Server platform. The firewall delivers extensive security filtering, management of connectivity policy, and traffic routing. The Web cache enhances network throughput by storing repeatedly accessed Web data.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Expertise
Progent can give you access to a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you to select, configure, and support Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Learn more details concerning Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise.
Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Consulting
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver in-depth technical expertise for Cisco's complete family of protection and Virtual Private Network solutions including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and IS routers, Aironet wireless access points and bridges, and Catalyst Series switches. Read more details concerning Cisco Security, VPN and Aironet Wireless Support.
Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a wide array of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Progent can provide small and mid-size organizations top-level support for products from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network suppliers such as:
Stealth Penetration Testing Consulting
Unannounced intrusion checking is a valuable method for helping organizations to find out how vulnerable their IT environments are to potential attacks by revealing how well network security policies and mechanisms stand up to authorized but unpublicized penetration efforts launched by seasoned security engineers utilizing advanced hacking techniques. Learn more information about Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
Certified Information Security Manager Security Consulting Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) defines the core skills and worldwide benchmarks of service that computer security professionals are required to achieve. It offers executive management the assurance that those who have been awarded their certification have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM expert to assist your organization in critical security disciplines including data security governance, vulnerability assessment, data security program control, and incident handling management.
Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security specialists who have earned CISSP accreditation as a result of demonstrated experience, extensive study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management practices, security design and test systems, access permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals (ISSAP) Consulting Services for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP qualified security experts are experts who have been awarded ISSAP accreditation following thorough examination and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts have in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture.
CISA Support Services
The CISA credential is a recognized qualification that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent offers the services of a CISA-qualified security engineer trained to help companies in the fields of IS audit process, IT enforcement, systems and architecture lifecycle, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and business continuity preparedness.
Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to provide services in critical areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of certified professionals for all of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification programs including auditing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, and web services security.
Depend on Progent for Network Security Help
If your organization is situated in Rochester or anywhere in New York and you want computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or send email to security-help@progent.com.
Progent can help your business to plan and implement a smooth migration from a Sun Solaris-powered IT system to a network powered by MS Windows and suited for running Microsoft's familiar office productivity suites, business applications, and software development tools. Progent's Sun Solaris, Windows and Cisco consultants and software development experts can help you preserve your information and minimize business discontinuity by developing an effective transition strategy that protects your existing assets in Solaris software and technology. UNIX-to-Windows transition consulting expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of existing infrastructure, migration strategy and validation, MS Exchange migration support, data and application software porting, and processor and media transition and economization.
Progent's disaster recovery support and business continuity consultants can help you create a disaster recovery strategy in case of an IT system catastrophe. Progent can help you define a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy that incorporates periodic disaster recovery assessments and drills. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-authorized professionals can also help you create an affordable, fault-tolerant network architecture that takes into account reliability issues involving a wide range of infrastructure technologies and procedures.
E-Mail Guard represents a complete solution for blocking spam and virus attacks. E-Mail Guard handles the protection and management of corporate email by offering continually improved spam and virus blocking, policy administration, content filtering, and protection against email-borne directory harvesting and DoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also features monitoring, management and reporting utilities plus outbound email testing to help you repair your e-mail environment and define and regulate corporate security policy.
Remote server management cards offer IT managers complete control of a server without the requirement for an on-site visit. Through these server management cards, all console screen information plus keyboard and mouse functionality are exported to a remote session to a support expert who can be located anywhere in the world. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified engineers can help you to plan, deploy, and manage a high-availability company network that includes remote management cards and Progent can utilize these remote management cards to deliver efficient remote technical assistance. Progent has experience with a variety of remote server management cards including Aten remote management cards, American Megatrends remote management cards, Dell DRAC cards, HP Lights-Out 100c remote server management cards, and Peppercon remote server management cards.
Progent's certified security staff can help you secure your Mac environment through professional support offerings including running security audits, clean up after virus and denial of service penetrations, setting up firewalls, implementing safe off-site and mobile access, installing automated software for protection against viruses, spam, and directory harvest attacks, and creating a company-wide security plan adapted for the particular objectives of your business information system.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's affordable anti-spam and anti-virus solution that gives small businesses enterprise-quality protection against spam, viruses, directory harvesting, and other forms of e-mail-based assaults on IT networks. E-Mail Guard is based on Postini's Perimeter Manager, a full library of web-managed antispam and virus protection services that stop email attacks before they are able to penetrate the network firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators monitor and manage their e-mail systems, regardless of server vendor, hardware technology, or data center location.
Subcontractor Jobs for Freelance Microsoft Consultant Positions
Progent's Experts Group provides support in key areas that include Macintosh integration and programs; Consulting for Linux, UNIX-based, and Sun Solaris environments; MRP, Enterprise Resource Planning, or CRM expertise; Mission-critical and vertical application help; Chief Information Officer, management information analyst, and project management services; Special program design and integration; Web site, eCommerce, EDI, and client information portal development and deployment; DBM management and efficiency consulting; Business information consulting; and Telecommunications architecture support.
Progent provides support services for WatchGuard Firewall security appliances such as the Firefox X Core line of Firewalls and the Firebox VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can show you how to select, configure, and manage a WatchGuard VPN security appliance that fits your security strategy and fits your computer budget. Progent can also help you to combine WatchGuard Firewall/VPN and SSL VPN products with protection products from other suppliers and provide a one-stop source for technical help, training, and security consulting.
Progent can provide the expertise of CISM certified security professionals. The Certified Information Security Manager committee describes the basic competencies and international standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM certification possess the background and knowledge to deliver efficient security management and support consulting.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer small and midsize companies expert support services for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM 2005) and MOM 2000. MOM 2005 delivers extensible and scalable enterprise-class operational management by providing detailed event management, proactive monitoring and threshold alarms, reporting and trend profiling, and network and program-specific intelligence and routines to improve the control of Windows Server System networks. Through internal application profiles, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 helps you identify your system health problems before they grow into disasters, increase the payback of your network operations through specified best practices, and support your network operations and senior management by sharing critical service level and capacity data. Progent’s MOM consulting engineers have extensive field-proven experience with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your company install and customize MOM in order to maximize the reliability and productivity of your information network.
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server consulting experts have broad backgrounds developing corporate security solutions for IT networks with many locations, remote users, and line-of-business eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA Server consultant is ready to help your small or mid-size company design and implement a configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that supports your IT security needs without restricting your network.
Progent is the leading source of easy, quick, and cost-effective access to Cisco CCIE support professionals. CCIEs are highly-qualified network experts who earn this top-level classification only as a result of intense testing by Cisco. CCIEs are able to handle the most complex issues associated with network planning, implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Progent’s CCIE experts work closely with Cisco in-house staff in analyzing problems with Cisco's IOS software and devising workarounds or obtaining patches to resolves anomalies. Progent offers fast access to a CCIE by telephone so you can receive instant assistance for complex network troubles that are impacting business efficiency but are beyond the expertise of your usual IT service providers. Progent's CCIE consulting professionals can access your network via advanced off-site support tools in order to provide timely and cost-effective diagnosis and repair of critical network problems.
Progent can provide businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area and select cities across the U.S. with consultants to show how to set up Microsoft Project, integrate the program with popular office productivity software such as Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Excel, and provide custom training. Progent's staff consultants can help your business build and maintain a safe, reliable network and communications foundation to run your MS Project applications. Progent can also promote corporate project management success by configuring Microsoft Project Server.
