Remote Security Support Services and Compliance Audting for San Diego Small Office IT Networks
To get fast help with computer security problems, small companies in San Diego, CA, can find expert support online from Progent's certified security professionals. Progent's remote support consultants are available at any time to offer efficient and affordable assistance with security problems that threaten the viability of your IT network. Progent's security consultants are certified to support environments based on Microsoft, Linux, Macintosh, Sun, and popular derivatives of UNIX. Progent's wide array of consulting services covers firewall expertise, messaging security, secure network design, and information recovery. Progent's technical support staff has earned the industry's top security certifications including Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and CISSP.
Progent provides online security help on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and without extra charges for sign-up or off-hour service. By charging per minute and by providing world-class support, Progent's pricing structure keeps costs under control and avoids scenarios where quick solutions turn into major charges.
Our System Has Been Attacked: What Can We Do Now?
In case your business is now fighting a network security crisis, visit Progent's Emergency Remote Computer Help to learn how to get fast assistance.
For organizations who have prepared in advance for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure outlined by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security attack.
Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Managing computer protection as well as preparedness for recovering critical information and functions after an attack demands a continual process that entails an array of tools and procedures. Progent's certified security consultants can help your organization at any level in your attempt to protect your IT network, from security audits to creating a complete security plan. Some technologies supported by Progent's security engineers include Planning and Prevention, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Based Attacks.
Designing and Building Secure Networks
Every organization ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a collection of steps that helps to reduce security holes. The reactive plan specifies procedures to assist security staff to evaluate the losses caused by a breach, repair the damage, document the experience, and restore business activity as soon as possible. Progent can advise you how to build protection into your business operations. Progent can install auditing utilities, create and implement a safe network infrastructure, and recommend processes and policies to maximize the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy secure offsite access to e-mail and information, and install an effective VPN.
If your company is interested in an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options include non-stop online network tracking and immediate resolution of problems.
Data Recovery and Security Forensics
Progent provides expertise in recovering networks and computers that have been hacked, are quarantined, or have failed because of a security penetration. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the attack, return your company to ordinary functions, and retrieve information compromised as a result of the assault. Progent's certified engineers can also perform a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and using a variety of proven assessment tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your downtime and permits Progent to propose efficient measures to avoid or contain new assaults.
Backup and Recovery Strategies Powered by Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Microsoft Data Protection Manager is a powerful fault tolerant backup and restore product centered around fast disk systems to increase reliability, throughput, and manageability. Progent's expert Data Protection Manager (DPM) support professionals can assist you to create an effective disaster recovery plan, implement a cost-effective high-availability IT architecture, configure a Microsoft Data Protection Manager-powered backup and recovery solution, thoroughly validate your system, educate your administrative personnel or regular service providers how to maintain Data Protection Manager, or provide complete information technology outsourcing services such as off-site hosting of Microsoft DPM machines in Progent's data center. For more information, visit Data Protection Manager Consulting Services.
Outsourced Spam Filtering
Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small and midsize companies E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that blocks spam and email viruses before they can penetrate your network firewall. Find out additional details concerning E-Mail Guard Managed Spam and Virus Filtering.
Special Security Services Offered by Progent
Progent's security consultants offer world-class specialized help in vital areas of IT protection including:
Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Testing
Progent provides experience with security evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard from GFI for conducting a set of comprehensive network scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with these utilities and can assist your company to analyze audit results and respond efficiently. Progent's security consultants also can perform web software validation and can perform expert assessments of enterprise-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major global security specifications such as HIPPA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the effectiveness of your wireless protection covering stationary wireless equipment as well as mobile devices. Get the details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Audits and Compliance Testing.
Configuring MS ISA Server MS ISA Server provides rules-based security, improved performance, and simple management of internetworking by incorporating both a firewall and a Web cache server integrated with Microsoft's MS Windows 2003 Server platform. The firewall delivers comprehensive data filtering, management of access rights, and traffic direction. The cache improves network throughput by remembering frequently accessed Web data.
Progent's MS ISA Server 2006 engineering expertise gives small businesses assistance from security engineers who can plan and deploy a solution that matches your security needs while avoiding limiting system productivity.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Consulting
Progent can give you access to a Cisco CCIE engineer or Cisco CCNP expert to show you how to select, deploy, and manage Cisco PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls. Read the details concerning Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall Help.
Cisco Protection, VPN and Wireless Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points and bridges, and Catalyst switches. Learn additional details about Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Help.
Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Consulting Services
As well as being expert in a broad range of protection solutions from Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Progent offers small and mid-size organizations top-level consulting for products from other major firewall and VPN suppliers including:
Unannounced Intrusion Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is a key method for helping companies to find out how vulnerable their IT environments are to potential attacks by revealing how thoroughly network protection procedures and technologies stand up against planned but unannounced penetration efforts instigated by veteran security engineers using advanced intrusion methods. Get additional details concerning Progent's Penetration Testing Services.
CISM Security Support Expertise
Certified Information Security Manager identifies the basic skills and worldwide standards of performance that computer security managers are required to master. CISM offers executive management the assurance that those who have earned their accreditation have the experience and knowledge to offer effective security management and consulting support. Progent can offer a CISM expert to help your enterprise in critical security disciplines such as data protection governance, vulnerability management, information security program management, and incident handling management.
CISSP Security Support Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified experience, extensive study, and exhaustive examination. CISSP qualification recognizes mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of knowledge covered within CISSP include security management procedures, security design and models, access permission methodology, applications development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, Internet security, and business continuity planning.
Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals (ISSAP) Consulting Services for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP certified security experts are experts who have earned ISSAP accreditation following thorough testing and significant experience. field experience with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity and DRP, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture.
Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-certified security consultant trained to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit process, information technology enforcement, systems and infrastructure lifecycle, IT support, protecting information assets, and business continuity preparedness.
GIAC Professional Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the skills needed to deliver support in important categories of network, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent can provide the assistance of certified professionals for all of the network security disciplines addressed within GIAC certification programs including assessing networks, incident response, traffic analysis, and web-based services security.
Get in Touch with Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is situated in San Diego or anywhere in the state of California and you're looking for security consulting, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or email Progent at security-help@progent.com.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants offer small and midsize businesses computer consulting, maintenance, and repair services for Microsoft SharePoint Server. SharePoint is an enterprise portal platform for intelligently connecting people, groups and data. SharePoint provides a common spot for your workers or clients to connect to, organize, share and interact with useful information, files, and software and to communicate with other people. SharePoint enables faster and better decisions, more efficient access across teams and more economical business practices. The primary objective of SharePoint is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of knowledge accessible inside and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, customers, workgroups and projects with the data they’ve developed in a way that makes data easy to locate, retrieve and re-use.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 is a complete, Web-enabled database and data analysis package that enables the rapid creation of a new generation of high-end applications that can provide your business a significant competitive advantage. Microsoft SQL Server 2000 features built-in support for XML and the capability to query across the Internet and outside the firewall. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2000 consultants, with an average of more than over 10 years of background helping with Microsoft technology, assures you success in designing, installing and administering Microsoft SQL Server applications that are seamlessly integrated with other applications based on Microsoft's .NET environment.
For mid-size companies who need network support, Progent offers a variety of alternatives including on-site help, remote assistance, phone-based Call Center, 24x7 support with remote system monitoring, emergency staffing, site relocation support, application programming, and expert consulting. For midsize businesses in California or other areas serviced by Progent's field engineers, Progent offers professional onsite support for fixing network issues quickly and affordably.
Exchange Servers and Macintosh workstations can work together efficiently. Progent's Mac and Microsoft qualified experts can help you set up Microsoft Entourage and Exchange so your Mac users can collaborate with teammates who run Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage 2008 or 2004 for Mac, Exchange and Apple Macintosh software can coexist, enabling Mac users to receive and send messages, examine the GAL, copy addresses, sync up appointments, and alert fellow workers to conferences with your Microsoft Exchange account. Progent will verify that your Microsoft Server is properly configured and that LDAP and Outlook Web Access are working. Progent also can provide specialized one-on-one Entourage education.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 18 years of experience providing e-mail, electronic messaging and telecommunications/email combination solutions for San Francisco Bay Area companies. Progent provides affordable Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server consulting services to strengthen email security and virus protection, achieve high availability email, and implement remote and mobile email connectivity. Progent’s Microsoft Exchange help and support services can aid you in planning and implementing a Microsoft Exchange upgrade or a move from a legacy SMPT server or outdated Microsoft Email software such as Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2000. In addition Progent offers Windows XP and Vista client-side Microsoft Mail consulting for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and can help you set up Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Microsoft Outlook XP, and Outlook Web Access (OWA). For email virus protection and spam filtering, Progent offers expertise with Postini spam filtering and Trend Micro software. Progent is a Postini Managed Service Provider (Postini MSP). As a Postini aggregator, Progent is able to help small organizations benefit from Postini’s enterprise-class spam blocking technology.
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server consulting experts have extensive backgrounds configuring Microsoft ISA Server-based security installations for IT networks with many sites, remote users, and line-of-business web applications. Progent's Microsoft Firewall experts can assist your small business in planning and implementing an installation of ISA 2000 Server or ISA Server 2004 that supports your information protection needs without adversely restricting your IT system accessibility. Progent's consultants can help you upgrade from Microsoft Proxy Server from ISA 2000 Server to ISA 2006 Enterprise Edition Server or ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server.
Progent is a leading innovator in cost-effectively providing enterprise-class network help to small businesses. Progent's success in handling the IT service needs of the historically underserved small company sector is the combined outcome of key technical and process innovations that have removed much of the traditional costs out of managing IT service, added unprecedented professional expertise into the support mechanism, and dramatically accelerated the solution cycle.
Microsoft Live Communications Server delivers IM and presence as part of an extensible, enterprise-grade package featuring advanced protection, transparent compatibility with additional Microsoft products, an expandable, industry-standard development environment, and support for regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can realize cost savings and elevated operational efficiencies, enhanced individual productivity, and stronger IP protection with this easy-to-manage, fault-tolerant solution. Effective implementations of Live Communications Server require careful planning and thought before installation. Progent's Microsoft-authorized consultants can provide the expertise necessary to realize all the benefits of Live Communications Server throughout your whole corporation.
For large organizations, Progent can leverage internal IT staffs by providing extensive experience in supporting key Microsoft and Cisco technologies. Progent's certified professionals offer Enterprise Active Directory consulting, Exchange Server 2003 integration, Systems Management Server (SMS) expertise, and SQL Server help. For the nationwide or global enterprise with branch offices in the Bay Area, Progent can act as a transparent nearby extension of enterprise IT management. Progent’s enterprise support services include company-wide security, online branch office support, network design, Sarbox compliance, project planning, and top-level support for multi-site network environments powered by Enterprise Windows. Progent can provide on-site consultants and specialists to help with a site relocation or branch move, or a system architect to help with setting up or utilizing an Internet Data Center or co-location site.