Alaska Network Security and Business Continuity For Small Company Information Networks: Security Expertise and Support Services
Small business information networks in the state of Alaska can depend on quick remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security consultants to fix complex security issues. Rates are reasonable, charges are per minute, engagement is quick, and support is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the services of seasoned security engineers with high-level industry credentials.
In case your Alaska business is located away from larger urban areas such as Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, access to accredited security support specialists may be limited when you have an emergency. This can result in a loss of revenue for your company, upset customers, idle employees, and defocused management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a certified security consultant ready to offer expertise when you have to have it to get your computer network running and recover your data.
Progent can assist you in a variety of ways in your endeavors to defend your IT environment with support that ranges from network security assessments to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent provides affordable support to help small businesses to configure and maintain safe IT environments based on Windows and Cisco Systems technology and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms.
Progent can also show you how to outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based security threats. Progent works with Postini to provide small companies E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and e-mail-based security threats before they are able to break through your network firewall. Learn more about E-Mail Guard Spam Blocking and Virus and Worm Defense.
Progent's certified engineers are available remotely or in person to provide a variety of emergency or project-based IT security services such as:
Perform comprehensive security audits
Clean up quickly after virus and worm attacks
Configure hardware and software firewalls
Implement secure solutions for offsite and mobile access
Install automated applications for defense against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
Develop a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 monitoring
Progent's engineers can deliver advanced support in vital areas of network security including analysis, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.
System Audits
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing network security environment by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via advanced software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in administering this
testing saves you time and money and assures an accurate picture of system vulnerability. The knowledge your company gains can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to run dependably and adapt quickly to new risks.
Automated Network Security Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the application of security evaluation software including MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for affordably running a set of programmed system auditing scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with other security analysis products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools such as Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and react effectively.
Progent can help you build protection into your business operations, configure scanning tools, plan and implement a protected system architecture, and suggest policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are available to assist you to configure a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's automated security analysis.
Stealth Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event history monitoring are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network penetration testing consulting.
Firewalls and VPN Expertise
Progent's expertise in security solutions encompasses extensive field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by a variety of companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the services of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Consulting Expertise for MS ISA Server Microsoft ISA Server is a comprehensive gateway that offers a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching platform for protecting the Internet-facing networks of any organization against a broad range of attacks. Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants can help you plan, rationalize, pilot, implement, configure, and support the Standard or Enterprise edition of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
Cisco Firewalls Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, configuration, and support of Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls offer advanced security, high throughput, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform,minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps. Learn more information concerning Progent's Cisco Firewalls Engineering Services.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access technology for small organizations provide a complete line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align best with your business objectives. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Products.
Engineering Services for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent provides small and mid-size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWALL. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and choose the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget limits.
Certified Network Security Planning
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security program that incorporates both proactive procedures and response planning. The proactive plan is a collection of mechanisms intended to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive strategy assists your company's security engineers to evaluate the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the network, document the experience, and get business functions operational as soon as possible.
Progent's certified information security consultants are available to help your company to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and create a network security plan to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize future attacks and dangers.
CISM Certified Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager organization defines the core competencies and global standards of performance that information security professionals are required to master. CISM gives executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM qualified security professionals to help businesses with:
CISSP Certified Security Engineering Support
CISSP certification recognizes expertise with a global standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification accreditation in the area of information protection defined by ISO 17024. Progent offers access to of security professionals who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a broad range of security fields such as:
ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's ISSAP certified system architecture professionals are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status through rigorous examination and significant work with network security design. The ISSAP certification indicates proven competence in the most complex demands of information security architecture bounded by the wider field of IS security knowledge required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture including.
CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is an important qualification that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-certified network security audit consultants are available to help your business with:
IS Audit Process
IT Governance
Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
Information Technology Support
Safeguarding Data Assets
Disaster Recovery Planning
GIAC Accredited Information System Security Engineering Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to deliver support in key categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit consultants can assist your IT organization with:
Contact a Progent Security Engineer Immediately
To see how you can ask a Progent security consultant for urgent phone-based engineering assistance or complex security projects in Alaska, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Expert Online Computer Help.
The Cisco Unified Wireless Network infrastructure delivers cost-effective wireless solutions for productive mobility. Cisco's technology enables the same level of protection, flexibility, and manageability for wireless LANs that businesses demand in their tethered infrastructure. This includes built-in world-class security that identifies, prevents, and self-corrects in response to known and new security attacks. This includes integrated mobility services such as voice support, location services, visitor access, and enhanced security. Cisco products have the versatility and scalability to handle the needs of IT systems of all sizes, from small businesses to global enterprises, within WLAN campus environments or branch offices. The Cisco Unified Wireless Network allows companies to take advantage of the wireless infrastructure to improve operations and enhance productivity via a mobile workforce. Cisco's wireless product families reduce overall operational costs and simplifies network implementation, operations, and administration. Cisco wireless devices that Progent supports include the Cisco Aironet 1130AG access points, Cisco Aironet 1500 Series mesh access points, Cisco Aironet 1400 Series wireless bridges, the Cisco WLCM Routers, and Cisco's 2106 Wireless LAN Controller.
Progent's UNIX family consulting experts offer small and mid-size businesses and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your organization contact with UNIX consultants, consulting professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM and CISA certification. This wide array of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with popular variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandriva Linux, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Progent’s IT outsourcing services provide budget-friendly network support for medium-size corporations. Whether it includes planning network infrastructure, setting up an internal Help Desk or using an outside one, deploying an updated email platform, monitoring your system, or developing a web-based eCommerce application, outsourcing your IT technical services can reduce costs and minimize uncertainties, permitting network support expenses to increase in a more moderate and controlled fashion than is possible by assembling a bulky, all-purpose internal network support staff. Progent’s Outsourcing White Paper and flyers show how Progent can help you create a protected and highly available network foundation for your critical Windows-based applications including Microsoft Office XP, Office 2003, and Microsoft Office 2000.
Progent can provide you with programmers who can customize your Microsoft Business Solutions ERP, MRP, and accounting system applications to meet your particular company requirements. Progent’s Microsoft support experts provide expertise in Microsoft AX ERP Software, Microsoft NAV Business Management Software, Microsoft Solomon, and Microsoft Retail Management Software. Progent also provides expert e-Commerce integration support for safe, company-wide information sharing plus interfacing with CRM packages.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have more than a decade of background providing email, digital messaging, and email and telephony combination solutions for small businesses and large corporations. Progent provides economical Exchange Server 2003 consulting to enhance email and virus security, configure high availability email environments, and facilitate remote and mobile email connectivity. Progent’s Exchange support services can help you in planning and executing a migration from a legacy SMPT server or unsupported Microsoft Email software such as Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003. Progent also provides XP and Vista desktop Microsoft Email support for Exchange and Outlook and can show you how to integrate Microsoft Outlook 2003 and Outlook Web Access (OWA). For email virus protection and spam filtering, Progent supports Postini's security services as well as Trend Micro Scanmail. Progent is an authorized Postini aggregator. As a Postini partner, Progent can help small companies take advantage of Postini’s enterprise-class spam blocking solution.
Server proliferation wreaks havoc on IT budgets and management resources. Server consolidation through a virtual infrastructure offers lower TCO of hardware and quicker return on investment, more leveraged utilization of servers, simplified operations, increased network uptime, and easier management. Common usage scenarios for virtual servers include hardware consolidation, low-cost hosts for mission-critical legacy software running on outdated operating systems, and inexpensive isolation of software development or evaluation systems from on-line systems.
If your business runs a UNIX or Linux environment or a multi-OS computer system, Progent's CISM, CISSP and ISSAP-qualified security specialists can assist your whole organization in a broad array of security topics including security management procedures, security design and strategies, access control products and techniques, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, communications, infrastructure and Internet security, and disaster recovery planning. CISM, CISSP and ISSAP stipulate the fundamental competencies and worldwide standards of performance that network security managers are expected to possess. These certification provide IT management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISA or CISM qualification have the background and theory to deliver world-class security support and engineering help.
Progent's pricing policy is to charge for phone service and on-site help per minute. Consequently, you pay exclusively for received support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for after-hours or emergency support, and inside California or in regions where Progent provides on-site support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site work is less than four hours. Also, Progent imposes no minimum charge and requires no monthly commitment. Many service firms demand substantial minimum fees or charge for each fifteen minutes or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity avoids big invoices for quick repairs so you will not be tempted to allow simple problems to fester.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide a range of consulting services for Great Plains Business Software. Microsoft Business Solutions Great Plains is a Microsoft accounting platform and corporate management solution built, like all Microsoft accounting solutions, on the expandable and popular platform of Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0, the most recent edition of Microsoft financial products in the Microsoft Great Plains Accounting family, offers an affordable solution for managing and combining accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, CRM, and human resources. Microsoft Great Plains is easy to deploy and integrate, and with its modular design you are able to purchase only the capability you currently need, with the option to expand users and increase capabilities when necessary. Progent’s Microsoft Great Plains Software consulting experts can show you how to install, customize and administer Microsoft Dynamics GP 9.0 and also earlier editions of Great Plains such as Microsoft Great Plains 8.0 and Microsoft Great Plains 7.5.
Progent’s professionals provide expertise in multiple disciplines related to mobile networking such as system topology, wireless data synchronization, wireless security, wireless email, Windows Mobile 2003. PDA integration, Research in Motion Blackberry, and wireless application programming. Progent's Microsoft certified professionals can save your organization time and expense by using their wireless experience to help you choose and integrate mobile connectivity solutions that make sense for your company. Progent can also optimize your network infrastructure so that wireless appliances work better.
E-Mail Guard is Progent's economical antispam and virus protection managed service that gives small businesses enterprise-quality protection against spam, viruses, DHA attacks, and other forms of e-mail-based attacks on computer networks. E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's Perimeter Manager, a comprehensive library of web-based antispam and virus protection services that stop email attacks before they can breech the corporate firewall. Perimeter Manager also lets administrators track and control their email systems, irrespective of server platform, hardware type, or geographic location.
Progent's expert consultants can show you how to define and implement a smooth in-place Microsoft Exchange 2007 upgrade strategy that avoids productivity disruption, simplifies ongoing service requirements, and makes your Exchange Server 2007 easy to manage. For complicated multi-server or multi-site upgrades, Progent has the background to complete your project rapidly and economically. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2007 help, repair, and consulting offerings include expertise with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that are best aligned to your business goals.
