Urgent Security Consulting and Compliance Testing for San Antonio Small Company Networks
To get urgent assistance with computer security issues, small businesses in San Antonio, TX, can find expert support online by contacting Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote service staff is ready at any time to provide fast and affordable assistance with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your IT network. Progent's accredited engineers are qualified to support systems based on Windows, Linux, Apple Mac, Sun Solaris, and popular versions of UNIX. Progent's wide range of consulting services addresses firewall technology, messaging systems, secure network architecture, and data restoration. Progent's support team has earned the industry's most advanced security certifications including GIAC and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Progent provides online security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum times and without extra fees for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs low and avoids scenarios where quick fixes result in major expenses.
Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do Now?
If your business is now faced with a network security emergency, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to find out how to receive fast help.
For companies who have prepared carefully for an attack, the formal post-attack handling procedure promoted by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's approved method of reacting to a major security attack.
Overview of Progent's Security Services
Managing computer security plus preparedness for restoring vital data and functions after a security breach demands a continual effort involving an array of tools and procedures. Progent's security professionals can support your organization at any level in your efforts to secure your information system, from security audits to creating a complete security program. Some technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Implementation, Data Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Protection from Email-Borne Attacks.
Designing and Implementing Protected Networks
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both preventive and reactive steps. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of precautions that works to minimize security holes. The post-attack strategy specifies procedures to assist IT staff to inventory the damage resulting from an attack, repair the damage, document the event, and restore business activity as quickly as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can set up scanning utilities, create and build a safe IT infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies to optimize the protection of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure offsite connectivity to email and information, and install an efficient virtual private network (VPN).
If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security management, Progent's Round-the-clock Monitoring Options feature continual online network tracking and fast response to emergencies.
System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent has expertise in recovering networks and devices that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working because of a security attack. Progent can show you how to assess the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the breach. Progent's security engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's background with security consulting minimizes your business disruption and allows Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate future assaults.
Backup and Restore Strategies Powered by System Center Data Protection Manager
Data Protection Manager (DPM) is a powerful backup and recovery solution based on fast disk subsystems to increase network uptime, throughput, and ease of administration. Progent's expert Data Protection Manager support professionals can assist your company to develop a practical business continuity plan, implement an affordable non-stop IT infrastructure, configure a Microsoft DPM-powered backup and recovery solution, comprehensively validate your DPM system, educate your IT personnel or regular service providers how to maintain DPM, or handle complete IT support outsourcing including off-site hosting of Microsoft Data Protection Manager machines in Progent's data center. To learn more, visit Data Protection Manager Consulting.
Outsourced Spam Blocking
Progent has partnered with Postini to offer 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 additional information about E-Mail Guard Managed Spam Filtering.
Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class consulting support in key facets of network security including:
Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for performing a variety of comprehensive network tests to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has broad skills with scanning utilities and can assist you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security engineers also offer web software validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with key industry security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless security including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read the details about Progent's Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Testing.
Configuring MS ISA Server MS ISA Server offers rules-based security, improved throughput, and simple administration of internetworking by providing both an advanced firewall and a Web cache mechanism coordinated with Microsoft's Windows Server operating system. The firewall delivers extensive data filtering, control of connectivity policy, and traffic routing. The Web cache enhances system throughput by storing repeatedly requested Web content.
Progent's MS ISA Server support service gives small and midsize businesses access to certified professionals who can plan and deploy a solution that meets your security needs without restricting system efficiency.
Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Help
Progent can offer the services of a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) or Cisco Certified Network Professional to assist you to choose, configure, and support Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Read additional details about Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall Expertise.
Cisco Security, VPN and Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts (CCIEs) and Cisco CCNP experts can deliver world-class consulting support for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network products such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, the Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, Aironet wireless access points, and Catalyst family switches. Learn more information concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Aironet Wireless Help.
Additional Firewall and VPN Technologies
In addition to supporting a broad array of security solutions available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide small businesses expert engineering services for security products from other popular firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) vendors such as:
Unannounced Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is a key technique for allowing businesses to understand how vulnerable their IT environments are to potential attacks by testing how thoroughly corporate security processes and technologies stand up to authorized but unannounced penetration efforts launched by seasoned security specialists utilizing advanced intrusion methods. Read the details concerning Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. It provides business management the confidence that those who have been awarded their certification possess the background and skill to provide effective security management and consulting services. Progent can offer a CISM-certified expert to assist your organization in key security disciplines such as data security governance, risk assessment, data protection process control, and incident handling management.
CISSP Security Support Services
Progent's CISSP experts are security engineers who have earned CISSP certification through demonstrated experience, rigorous study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes expertise in a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of knowledge included under CISSP include security management procedures, security design and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, encryption, telecommunications, network security, and disaster recovery planning.
ISSAP Engineering Support for Secure Network Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP qualified security experts are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP certification as a result of thorough testing and extensive hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Support Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo an exhaustive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-certified security audit engineer able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information assets, and business continuity preparedness.
GIAC Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent offers the assistance of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines addressed under GIAC certification programs including assessing IT infrastructure, security incident response, intrusion detection, and web application security.
Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your company is situated in San Antonio or elsewhere in Texas and you need security help, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at security-help@progent.com.
Progent provides the help of Microsoft and Cisco-qualified network consulting professionals to show clients economical ways to help companies optimize the value of Microsoft and Cisco products. For environments that range from small offices to nationwide corporations, Progent's network engineers can assist you to improve your information system's e-mail infrastructure, security, reliability, throughput, and IT administration.
Progent provides expertise for security evaluation products such as LANguard from GFI for running a variety of automatic network auditing scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with network auditing tools and can help you to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately. Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes, configure scanning software, define and implement a protected network architecture, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security consultants are ready to show you how to set up a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and install VPN. Progent's accredited security engineers can also test the security of web-based applications and can conduct extensive information security tests of company-wide security to validate your organization's compliance with key international security standards such as HIPPA, NIST, and ISO.
If your organization does not need immediate online help but expects to require technical services with your network in the near future, you can conserve time and expenses and guarantee that the appropriate IT skill will be ready when you need it by getting in touch with a Progent sales agent and signing up as a customer. For more information, phone 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Progent has created a sophisticated support reporting system that stores and formats complete documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike some freelance consultants or local service firms who provide scant documentation or specifics of tasks performed, every service provided by Progent is accompanied by full documentation. Each Progent staff member has access to the service reports sent by every staff member to each client. The discipline of detailing and archiving service activity allows more effective support and avoids a slew of typical problems such as when a service customer is effectively held hostage to a consultant who refuses to release vital service information.
MS Dynamics GP 10.0 accounting software is a comprehensive business management solution that unifies data and operations across your company, communicates easily with other applications, and connects workers, customers and vendors regardless of time or place. Created for small to mid-size businesses, Great Plains 10.0 delivers capability for accounting, analytics and reporting, project management, inventory and order processing, e-commerce, HRM, customer relationship management, field force automation, manufacturing, retail management, and online business services. Progent can show you how to install and manage a reliable, secure server and network environment to support Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, and can provide expert Great Plains consultants to help your company benefit from the full potential of Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Release 10.0.
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts can provide computer help and IT consulting services for Microsoft .NET Servers and programs and for Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Progent’s consulting team can show you how to plan, integrate, maintain and manage the entire suite of Windows .NET Servers including Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft ISA Server 20066, Microsoft BizTalk Server, Microsoft Commerce Server, Content Management Server, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003), Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Application Center, Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft SharePoint Services, Virtual Server, Project Server, and System Center Operations Manager 2007 and MOM 2005.
Progent is a pioneer in cost-effectively providing world-class IT support to small companies. Progent's success in handling the network service needs of the historically underserved small company sector is the cumulative result of major technical and process breakthroughs that have removed much of the traditional costs out of managing network service, injected unprecedented technical skill into the IT service system, and dramatically streamlined the solution process.
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Progent's compensation structure is built on revenue sharing, so just like working as an independent consultant, your earnings are entirely driven by your work effort. Certain Progent consultants focus on quality of life and elect to consult at an easy pace, using our flexible schedule to pursue individual enthusiasms such as mountain biking, car racing, snow boarding, surfing, travel, or sharing free time with family and acquaintances. Others take advantage of the chance to make major dollars via hard effort and extended days. Progent fully encourages both ends of the spectrum and any point in between.
Progent’s Wireless Consulting Services provide a fast, affordable option for small company IT systems to integrate the latest wireless connectivity technology. Few small companies have internal IT staffs with the resources to keep current on the dynamic world of wireless technology and services, and even fewer have the field background to cut through the hype and identify and configure the best products for Wi-Fi wireless LAN (WLAN), mobile connectivity, and small business wireless security. For 802.11 WiFi environments, Progent can show you how to design and install 802.11a, 802.11b and 802.11g compatible wireless link appliances such as the Cisco Aironet wireless access point. Progent can also help configure an acceptable level of 802.11x security. For wireless email and wireless Internet programs for mobile workers, Progent supports handheld computers such as the Research In Motion Blackberry (RIM Blackberry) for mobile email, as well as wireless PDAs, smartphones, and Pocket PCs based on Microsoft Mobile operating systems with Activesync. Progent’s experience with the Proxim Tsunami wireless bridge allows you to evaluate and install building-to-building wireless access.
Progent's certified ISA Server consultants have extensive backgrounds developing Microsoft-based security designs for information systems with multiple sites, remote users, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA 2004 Firewall engineer can help your small business design and implement an installation of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that meets your information protection needs without limiting your network.
Progent's SonicWALL consultants can help you pick, deploy, and maintain the SonicWALL Firewall, SonicWALL VPN and SonicWALL PRO family of products and can offer training to allow you to manage SonicWALL protection technology. Progent's CISSP certified consultants, CISM certified security professionals, and CISA certified IS security audit consultants can help you create an end-to-end security plan, including documented policies, and design protection into your business practices.
Progent can help you plan a viable Wireless LAN topology, select appropriate components, and integrate wireless access points, 802.11 LAN adapters, wireless bridges, radio antennas and various wireless accessories. Progent can also help you build a thorough 802.11 wireless network security strategy that is well integrated with the security plan for your entire business network.
NextWeb provides business class fixed wireless connectivity that can be set up in days instead of weeks. NextWeb provides a variety of wireless data transports such as NextWeb wireless T1, wireless DS3, and special event wireless Internet access. Progent has an agent agreement with NextWeb and is an authorized Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner with the expertise to show you how to integrate NextWeb wireless data services to build an enterprise-class, integrated communications network on a small-business budget.
For enterprises with branch offices in Northern California or any region covered by Progent's engineers, Progent's Microsoft-certified IT support professionals and certified Cisco network consultants can provide a range of IT consulting services such as project planning, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, site moves, enterprise security, system design, local or remote branch office support, and technical support for collocation hosting facilities. A Progent IT architect can help you plan a multi-office information system that makes efficient use of colocation services and Internet data centers. Progent’s Microsoft qualified engineers can help large enterprises design, integrate and maintain major rollouts of updated versions of Microsoft products including Enterprise Active Directory, Exchange Server, Systems Management Server, SQL Server, and Enterprise Windows. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional experts can help you deploy Cisco products for connectivity solutions that incorporate simple, high-speed, integrated, and wireless networking.
