Computer Support for Small Companies Part-time Chief Technology Officer Services: San Francisco Bay Area, California, and Nationwide
Progent can provide small businesses with an information management expert who can act as a part-time Chief Information Officer. This part-time CIO can provide long-term direction to help you deploy sensible technology to improve business operations so they align more closely with your business goals. Your business can create and implement a well thought out information technology plan without incurring the expense of a full-time senior IT executive.
Microsoft Live Communications Server provides IM and presence in an extensible, enterprise-grade package offering advanced security, transparent integration with other Microsoft products, an expandable, industry-standard development platform, and compliance with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and GLB. Your organization can realize lower costs and improved business efficiencies, increased worker productivity, and better intellectual property security with this simple-to-administer, highly available IM platform. Effective implementations of LCS require careful planning and thought before roll out. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can deliver the expertise necessary to realize all the benefits of Live Communications Server throughout your whole organization.
Progent’s Microsoft certified experts offer small and mid-size companies enterprise-class consulting support for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's standard tool for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, a component of Microsoft System Center 200, allows you to install critical software rapidly and automatically to appropriate workers, reduce product expense and stay compliant by understanding patterns of usage, enhance Windows protection by improving your awareness of vulnerability and by installing targeted patches, manage your mobile workforce through accepted standards independent of connection or geography, and lower operational expenses by fully exploiting the management functions incorporated into Windows. Progent’s SMS engineers can show you how to use SMS economically for automated software and application installation, security patch control, and asset monitoring management including program and hardware inventory.
Mid-sized companies can derive all the benefits of Microsoft's MOM and have fast access to Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco qualified IT consulting professionals. Thanks to Progent's affordably priced network support packages, medium-size organizations can choose a basic MOM-based co-sourcing service program with network monitoring, automated warnings, comprehensive reporting, Help Desk support, and remote service. For companies with mission-critical applications who need non-stop networking, Progent can provide a complete round-the-clock outsourcing solution. Progent supports MOM 2005 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 to offer medium-size business networks enterprise-class reliability, protection and productivity.
Progent provides consulting for security testing packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer for performing a variety of automatic system testing scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad knowledge of security analysis tools and can show you how to make sense of testing reports and respond effectively. Progent can help you design security into your company processes, install scanning applications, plan and implement a protected network environment, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Progent's certified security engineers can test the security of web software and can provide extensive security evaluations of company-wide security to validate your organization's compliance with key industry security standards such as FISMA, NIST, and ISO 17799.
Progent practices information transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating clients to resolve problems that are within their comfort zone, Progent is able to concentrate on delivering high-value skills where Progent faces little competition. Small companies who work with familiar freelance service providers or who maintain in-house support personnel benefit when Progent passes on knowledge about new technology and tested processes to make their IT environments more robust, secure, and efficient.
Windows Server 2008 is a major advance in making IT networks more secure and fault tolerant, easier to virtualize and manage, higher performing, and able to offer a better environment for web hosting and development. Progent can assist your company get the most from the enhancements incorporated into Windows Server 2008 by providing certified consulting, support, training, staffing, monitoring, and security services.
Progent’s Microsoft certified professionals offer small and medium sized companies consulting services for Microsoft ISA Servers. Microsoft's ISA Server includes an advanced application-layer aware firewall that can secure your business system from attack by external and internal threats. ISA Server provides thorough examination of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows ISA Server to uncover many attacks that can elude traditional firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN structure of ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN traffic. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's network security initiative, and Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers and CISA and CISSP certified security consultants can help you strengthen your network protection through experienced design and integration of Microsoft ISA Servers. Microsoft ISA Server is available in several editions that include the Microsoft ISA 2006 or 2004 Enterprise Edition and the ISA 2006 Standard Edition Server. Progent’s ISA Server support staff can also help you integrate MS Proxy Server and upgrade from ISA 2000 Server to the latest versions of Microsoft ISA Server.
Progent's Symantec experts can help you maintain older releases of Symantec Firewall and VPN products including the Symantec Raptor and Symantec VelociRaptor family or help you upgrade to newer technology from Symantec or other suppliers. Progent can also help you create and implement a complete security strategy that can include Firewall/VPN devices and utilities, outsourced security and virus protection services, system monitoring products, and documented policies and processes. Progent has the skill to be your single source for on-going technical support, maintenance, education, and security consulting.
Progent's Linux consulting services provide small and mid-size companies and software developers support for administering and supporting Linux computers that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your organization contact with Linux consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISM and CISA certification. This wide array of experience offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to build and manage a protected and reliable cross-platform connectivity and communications solution that allows Linux and Microsoft coexistence by combining Microsoft Windows with major Linux variations such as RedHat, SUSE Linux, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Security Consultants for CISA Security Audit CISA Auditing
The CISA credential is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-certified security audit consultant trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology enforcement, network assets and infrastructure lifecycle, IT service delivery, safeguarding of information resources, and disaster recovery planning.
Progent provides a variety of IT service bundles for small organizations. These IT outsourcing and network monitoring solutions are based on the anticipatory problem solving abilities of MOM 2005, a state-of-the-art network and IT support product that monitors the availability, throughput, and security of your network and identifies incipient problems before they can bring down your network. With Progent's affordably priced network support packages, small businesses can select a simple MOM-based co-sourcing service program with server monitoring, reporting, Help Desk and online service or a complete round-the-clock outsourcing solution.
Microsoft Live Communications Server delivers IM and Real Presence as part of an extensible, enterprise-grade solution featuring advanced protection, transparent compatibility with additional Microsoft products, an expandable, standards-based development environment, and support for regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your organization can realize cost savings and improved operational efficiencies, enhanced individual productivity, and stronger intellectual property protection with this simple-to-administer, highly available IM platform. Successful implementations of Live Communications Server call for careful planning and consideration prior to installation. Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can provide the expertise necessary to realize all the benefits of Live Communications Server throughout your entire organization.
Progent's E-Mail Guard is built on Postini's managed services, which use proprietary pass-through filtering versus the store-and-forward method for protect you from spammers, email-borne viruses, Directory Harvesting Attacks, and Denial of Service Attacks. Under Postini's approach, e-mail sent to your email server is evaluated on the fly through Postini's secure Email Processing Center. Postini’s Connection Manager utilizes heuristic rules analysis to identify behavior patterns associated with DHA attacks and immediately rejects DHA messages. Postini's Content Filter then isolates spam and viruses from benign e-mail using an in-memory process that takes only milliseconds.
Progent’s non-stop interoffice connectivity and 24x7 system infrastructure engineers can help small companies achieve fault tolerant Interoffice connectivity by means of redundant system architectures with automatic failover. Progent’s Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can design and implement high-availability Inter-office networks based on fault tolerant EIGRP network routers or fault tolerant OSPF configurations of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connectivity and automatic fail-over can provide economical 24x7 interoffice networking.
