Alabama Network Security and Business Continuity For Small and Midsize Company Information Systems: Security Expertise and Support Services
Small business IT networks in Alabama can have quick phone-based access to Progent's certified security professionals to resolve urgent security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for complex projects that requires the knowledge of senior security consultants with top security credentials.
If your Alabama organization is far from larger metropolitan neighborhoods such as Birmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, contact with certified network security engineers could be limited during an urgent situation. This can result in a drop in revenue for your company, upset customers, unproductive workers, and distracted management. By calling Progent's online services, you have access to a certified security professional who can offer expertise when you require it to get your network running and restore your information.
Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your efforts to guard your information system with support ranging from network security assessments to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent offers economical service to help small businesses to design and maintain protected IT environments based on Windows and Cisco Systems technology and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms.
Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne security threats. Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small businesses E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and e-mail-based viruses before they are able to penetrate your corporate firewall. Learn additional information concerning E-Mail Guard Spam Blocking and Virus and Worm Protection.
Progent's certified engineers are accessible remotely or on site to provide a range of emergency or project-based computer security services including:
Perform thorough network security evaluations
Recuperate rapidly after serious security breaches
Configure effective firewalls
Configure secure methods for offsite and mobile connectivity
Deploy automated applications for protection against viruses, spam and DHAs
Progent's support professionals provide world-class support in key fields of network protection that include security evaluation, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.
Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your existing computer protection systems by performing comprehensive remote automated testing based on advanced utilities and tested procedures. Progent's experience in administering this
testing saves your company money and offers an accurate picture of gaps. The knowledge your company gains can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to operate dependably and evolve rapidly to new risks.
Automated Vulnerability Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the use of security auditing utilities such as MBSA and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably running a variety of automatic system auditing checks to identify possible security vulnerabilities. Progent has extensive experience with other security auditing utilities including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus tools like Metasploit Framework, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and respond appropriately.
Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes, configure auditing tools, define and deploy a secure network architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security engineers are ready to show you how to configure a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more on Progent's network security audits.
Stealth Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key part of any successful network security strategy. Progent’s security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history analysis are properly set up and actively monitored. Find out additional information on Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.
Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by multiple vendors including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned important industry accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.
Consulting Services for MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server is a multi-functional edge gateway that provides a fully integrated application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and web caching platform for protecting the Internet-facing networks of any organization against a broad variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft ISA Server 2006 support professionals can help you plan, rationalize, test, install, customize, and manage any version of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Support Services
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of protection, high throughput, and high reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system,eliminating common OS-specific security holes. Learn additional information about Progent's Cisco Firewalls Consulting Services.
Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access technology for small companies provide a complete line of manageable security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to assist your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business objectives. Read more information concerning Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and medium size organizations professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.
Certified Network Security Consulting
Any company should develop a thoroughly thought out security program that includes both pre-attack procedures and response planning. The proactive plan is a set of mechanisms that help to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive plan assists your company's network security engineers to evaluate the impact resulting from an attack, repair the system, document the experience, and get business functions operational as rapidly as feasible.
Progent's certified information security consultants are available to help your company to perform a full vulnerability assessment and create a computer security strategy to establish security processes and controls to mitigate ongoing assaults and dangers.
CISM Accredited Network Security Support Expertise
CISM organization defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security managers are required to learn. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver effective security administration and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the services of CISM certified security consultants to help businesses with:
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Assistance
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of a global standard for data security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of data security defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a broad range of security fields such as:
ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's ISSAP qualified system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough testing and significant work with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates demonstrated mastery in the more challenging demands of information security architecture bounded by the broader field of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture including.
Access Management Mechanisms and Techniques
Phone System and Network Infrastructure Security
Data Encryption Solutions
Needs Analysis and Security Standards
Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important qualification that signifies mastery in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-certified IS security audit specialists can assist your business in the areas of:
Information Systems Audit Services
Information Technology Governance
Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
IT Service Delivery
Safeguarding Information Resources
Disaster Recovery Planning
GIAC Certified Network Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital categories of system, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified network security audit consultants are available to assist your company in the areas of:
Talk to a Certified Progent Security Specialist Immediately
To see how to ask a certified Progent security engineer for emergency remote professional assistance or complex security engagements in Alabama, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Expert Online Network Support.
Great Plains 10.0 software is a comprehensive business management and analytics platform that unifies information and operations throughout your business, communicates easily with other applications, and brings together workers, clients and suppliers unrestricted by time or place. Created for small to mid-size companies, Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains 10.0 provides functionality for financials, analytics and reporting, project management, inventory and order control, eCommerce, human resource management, CRM, field force automation, manufacturing, retail, and online business services. Progent can help you install and maintain a reliable, secure server and network environment to support Microsoft Great Plains, and can provide experienced Great Plains consultants to help your company exploit the full power of Microsoft Dynamics GP Release 10.0.
Microsoft Dynamics Customer Relationship Management helps mid-market businesses nurture profitable customer relationships. Integrated Sales and Customer Service modules enable employees to share data to help promote sales success and deliver steady, efficient customer service. Progent can set up the most sensible network environment, including local and offsite wireless connectivity, to back Microsoft CRM, and Progent's Experts Team can supply your Bay Area small business with a certified MSCRM professional who can help you integrate Microsoft Dynamics CRM with your marketing or customer support databases.
Progent can assist your company to plan and execute an efficient transition from a UNIX-powered IT environment to a network based on Microsoft Windows and suited for running Microsoft's popular office productivity suites, business applications, and developer tools. Progent's UNIX, Windows and Cisco engineers and software development specialists can assist you to preserve your data and minimize productivity discontinuity by developing an efficient migration plan that protects your current investments in UNIX application and infrastructure. UNIX-to-Windows migration consulting expertise offered by Progent include evaluation of existing infrastructure, transition planning and testing, MS Exchange migration expertise, information and application porting, and processor and storage migration and consolidation.
Remote management cards offer network managers full control of a server without the need for a personal presence. Using remote server management cards, all console screen information plus keyboard and mouse operations are exported to a remote session to an IT expert who can be situated anywhere with Internet access. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco authorized consultants can help you to plan, deploy, and support a high-availability company network that includes remote server management cards and Progent can utilize these remote server management cards to provide efficient off-site technical help. Progent has experience with a number of remote server management cards such as Aten IP9001 remote management cards, American Megatrends remote server management cards, Dell DRAC cards, HP Lights-Out 100c remote management cards, and Peppercon eRIC remote server management cards.
Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server 2006 experts can assist you to design, deploy, and manage a configuration of ISA Server 2006 on your information system that provides the firewall protection, performance and ease-of-use that your business requires.
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's support experts to clients. By educating customers to deal with problems that are within their scope, Progent is able to focus on providing hard-to-find services where Progent has little competition. Small companies who work with trusted freelance consultants or who employ in-house IT staffs benefit when Progent passes on knowledge about critical technology and proven methodologies to make their IT environments more reliable, secure, and efficient.
SQL Server 2005 offers powerful, standardized tools to computer experts and information workers, reducing the complexity of designing, integrating, managing, and using company data and database applications on platforms ranging from handheld devices to enterprise information networks. The complexity and integration requirements of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 call for a network consultant with real-world expertise and wide knowledge in designing and building data-driven, comprehensive business technology applications. The expertise of Progent's Microsoft-certified technical team, with an average of more than 10 years of professional work involving Microsoft technology, assures you success in planning, configuring and supporting Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions that are well integrated with the Microsoft .NET platform.
Progent's fault tolerant consulting services for small business networks offer Microsoft and Cisco-qualified network experts who can show you how to implement clustered servers to build a robust computing environment that incorporates essential technologies and activities for line-of-business environments. Progent’s fault-tolerant system experts can help you create non-stop networks by planning and deploying the growing line of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers. Clustered Windows servers for fault-tolerant networks include Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. By showing you how to create your fault-tolerant network around Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent’s consulting professionals can help implement a network architecture with features such as fault tolerant Internet access, system load balancing, fault tolerant data center planning, fault tolerant interoffice connections, high-reliability multi-location systems, and fail-safe disaster recovery.
Progent provides high availability load balancing support covering network load balancing, load balanced applications, LAN/WAN backbone routing, and content delivery technology including Cisco Content Engine. fault tolerant load balancing providers for which Progent can provide consulting expertise include Windows Server 2003 Network Load Balancing Manager, Citrix Access Suite and Presentation Server, Cisco CSS, Cisco Distributed Director and ACNS, and F5 Networks BIG-IP.
Progent's expertise delivering Microsoft .NET services and SQL Server help, and Progent's programming experience with Microsoft VBasic, XML, and additional developer platforms enable Progent to design specialized mission-critical applications and eCommerce environments that integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics GP Software. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP reporting consultants can help you design reports that let you track your business more effectively, turning uncooked data into useful insights into your company and customers.
Progent’s Cisco Security/VPN consultants and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or medium sized business deploy and maintain Cisco’s security and VPN technology including routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN solutions include both remote connectivity and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and Advanced Integrated Module hardware encryption cards, and hardware devices, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are simple to administer and provide the versatility to expand with your 1:25 PM 6/28/2006growing business needs. Progent’s Cisco-qualified network experts are familiar with Cisco’s comprehensive line of products aimed at eliminating information pilfering, virus and worm assaults, DDoS attacks, and other threats to your information system. Progent can help you integrate Cisco products to achieve secure connectivity, intrusion protection, and full Identity services based on Cisco Access Control Server using RADIUS security and TACACS to create a central user access control framework for user authentication, permissions, and tracking from a graphical Web interface.
AT&T represents the combination of SBC, AT&T, PacBell, and BellSouth. AT&T is a Tier 1 Internet Service Provider and provides a wide range of data services including AT&T DSL, T1, and ISDN for high-speed connectivity and AT&T Bonded T1, Frame Relay Plus, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode for enterprise customers. SBC IP Flexible Reach uses AT&T VoIP technology for nationwide organizations to unify PBX functions. Progent has an agency relationship with AT&T and is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner with the expertise to help you incorporate AT&T data/voice services to create a world-class, integrated communications network on a realistic budget.
Before Progent’s MOM-based solution, network problems were handled reactively, once workers were impacted by them. With the benefit of proactive, automated warnings and trend analyses sent by Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can now address server problems before they becomes serious enough to impact network uptime. Because of Microsoft Operations Manager, Progent can deal with incipient problems before customers know that the problems exist. Progent has background with Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to deliver small business networks enterprise-class reliability, safety and productivity.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer small and medium-size businesses expert 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 alerts, reporting and trend profiling, and network and application-specific intelligence and tasks to improve the control of Windows Server System networks. Through internal application profiles, Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 helps you isolate your IT reliability problems before they become disasters, improve the efficiency of your network operations via actionable best practices, and support your network operations and senior management by sharing key service level and performance data. Progent’s MOM consulting engineers have broad field-proven experience with MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 and can help your business install and customize MOM in order to maximize the reliability and efficiency of your information network.
