Connecticut Information Security and Business Continuity For Small Business Information Networks: Security Consulting and Support
Company networks in Connecticut can depend on instant phone-based technical support from Progent's certified network security engineers to help with critical security problems. Rates are competitive, billing is by the minute, engagement is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for long-term projects that demand the knowledge of seasoned security consultants with top industry certifications.
If your Connecticut small business is away from major urban areas like Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, or Stamford, access to qualified security professionals could be limited when you have a crisis. This could mean lost productivity for your company, angry clients, idle workers, and distracted executives. By contacting Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a certified security engineer ready to deliver expertise whenever you need it to keep your information system on line and restore your information.
Progent can help you at any level in your endeavors to guard your network with services that ranges from network security checks to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent offers economical support to help small and midsize companies to set up and manage secure IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco Systems products and that may include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms.
Progent can also help you outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne assaults. Progent works with Postini to provide small businesses E-Mail Guard, a managed service that intercepts spam and email-borne security threats before they are able to break through your network firewall. Find out additional information concerning E-Mail Guard Spam Filtering and Virus Protection.
Progent's security consultants are accessible remotely or on site to offer a range of urgent or project-based network security services such as:
Run comprehensive security audits
Clean up rapidly after virus and worm attacks
Set up and troubleshoot firewalls
Configure safe techniques for offsite and mobile access
Install automated utilities for defense against spam and DHAs
Progent's support professionals offer advanced support in vital fields of network protection including auditing, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security consulting.
System Assessment
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your existing computer protection implementation by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in this
testing saves your company money and assures an accurate portrayal of weaknesses. The knowledge your business gains can form the basis of a network protection strategy that can permit your network to run safely and evolve rapidly to new risks.
Automated Network Vulnerability Analysis
Progent provides expertise in the use of security auditing software including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for affordably running a set of automatic network testing scans to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with additional network analysis products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools such as Metasploit Framework, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand testing reports and react appropriately.
Progent can help you design protection into your company processes, configure scanning applications, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Learn more about Progent's automated security assessment.
Stealth Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any serious network security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and consistently observed. Learn more concerning Progent's stealth security penetration analysis support services.
Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security solutions includes in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent offers the support of engineers with key networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Support Expertise for MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 is a multi-functional edge 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 sized business against a broad range of attacks. Progent's certified ISA Server 2006 consultants can help you design, rationalize, test, implement, configure, and manage any edition of ISA Server 2006 on your network.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Consulting Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, integration, and management of Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home businesses to modular enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, high throughput, and excellent availability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system,eliminating possible OS-specific security gaps. Learn more details concerning Progent's Cisco Firewalls Consulting Expertise.
Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access products for small organizations provide a comprehensive range of manageable security products to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and CCNP certifications who are able to help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your business objectives. Find out more details about Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Appliances.
Support Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN products from major firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and SonicWALL. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate products from multiple vendors to support your security goals while sticking within your spending limits.
Expert Network Security Planning
Every company should develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction planning. The pre-attack strategy is a set of mechanisms designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan assists your company's security engineers to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, fix the system, document the experience, and get the IT network restored as soon as feasible.
Progent's certified information security consultants can to assist your company to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and create a company-wide security plan to establish security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.
CISM Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager organization defines the core competencies and global standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. CISM provides business management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to provide effective security administration and consulting services. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM certified security consultants to assist businesses with:
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Expertise
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information security under ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a variety security fields such as:
ISSAP Qualified Secure System Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's ISSAP qualified system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification through thorough examination and extensive work with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification represents demonstrated mastery in the most complex requirements of information security architecture within the wider field of IS security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.
CISA Accredited Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit engineers are available to help your company with:
IS Audit Process
IT Governance
Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle
Information Technology Support
Safeguarding Information Assets
Disaster Recovery Preparedness
GIAC Accredited Network Security Consulting Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in vital categories of network, information, and application program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC security audit specialists are available to assist your business with:
Talk to a Certified Security Expert Immediately
To find out how you can get in touch with a security consultant for urgent online professional expertise or long-term security engagements in Connecticut, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Expert Online Computer Support.
Progent's certified Systems Management Server consultants have extensive experience helping small and mid-size companies save time and cut costs by deploying Microsoft SMS 2003 to manage configuration and change processes. Progent can help you install Systems Management Server 2003 to reduce change and configuration management expenses, enhance network security, maximize productivity by keeping applications current, enforce compliance with software licenses, and record program usage profiles to help you arrive at informed purchasing decisions. Progent can help you benefit from SMS 2003's cost-saving capabilities for automated software deployment and application deployment, security update management, asset management, and software and hardware inventory. Progent's expertise with offsite support can further leverage the financial benefits of Microsoft SMS 2003 and Progent's CISSP-certified consultants and CISM-certified security professionals can show you how to develop a complete security plan that incorporates the powerful security functions of Systems Management Server. Progent also offers world-class support for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), which is a vital component of Microsoft's System Center 2005 platform for automated network management.
Email Guard by Postini offers constantly updated spam and virus filtering, data filtering, and protection from email-based DHA attacks and DSA attacks. Progent is a Postini partner and support specialist. If your company is too small to purchase for a regular Postini license, you can still have the use of Postini’s Perimeter Manager services via Progent’s E-Mail Guard spam filtering and virus protection service offering. Progent’s expert e-mail security consultants can show you how to develop an email safety plan that includes antispam and virus defense services and processes.
Progent's experts can provide Apple Mac users a variety of services such as workstation support, Apple OS X expertise, Macintosh integration with Windows environments, Entourage and email expertise, network protection services, and one-on-one training. For business environments based solely on Mac OS X or for systems incorporating a combination of Mac, Linux and Windows based servers and workstations, Progent's Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft certified consultants have the background and depth to deal with the difficulty of planning, configuring and maintaining a network infrastructure that is reliable, secure, efficient and able to achieve your organization's objectives.
Progent offers the services of Cisco switches experts to deliver professional network design and support services for business networks based on Cisco switching technology. Cisco switches offer exceptional QoS to help ensure that data traffic is classified and prioritized, and that congestion is minimized. Set up of Quality of Service for a Cisco switch is greatly simplified through automatic QoS, a feature that detects Cisco IP phones and automatically configures the switch for the appropriate sorting and transit queuing. This streamlines data prioritization and system availability without forcing your IT department to implement a complicated switch program. Through the Cisco Catalyst switches for small and medium-sized businesses, Cisco allows customers to realize the full advantages of adding intelligent services into their networks. A Cisco network switch makes it possible to install abilities that make the network environment consistently able to handle time-critical needs, expandable to support growth, safe enough to protect confidential information, and capable of differentiating and controlling traffic. Progent’s Cisco-qualified IT professionals can help you select and install a Cisco Ethernet switch to maximize your network’s performance and reliability.
Progent wants to find fulltime, results-oriented Microsoft accredited engineers with Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer credentials; Cisco certified network consultants who have Cisco CCDP or CCIE certification; security consultants who have CISSP or CISM or equivalent security credentials; and high-end network architecture experts with a background in mobile solutions, wireless networking, high availability, business continuity, information preservation, and virtual servers. Progent also is looking for employees to join Progent's team of help desk support technicians and off-site support experts. Also, Progent is hiring talented administrators able to perform productively in our high-growth, virtual office culture.
Progent's certified ISA Server 2006 consultants can help you to design, deploy, and support an implementation of ISA Server 2006 on your network that delivers the firewall protection, performance and ease-of-use that your business requires.
Apple Mac Online Computer Systems Consulting Configuration
Progent offers national online technical support and troubleshooting services for companies that operate Apple Mac networks or whose information systems feature a combination of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows technology. Remote network consulting offers optimum leverage for your IT dollar by extending user productivity and limiting the hours charged for computer repair services. Sophisticated remote access tools and experienced service specialists and consultants allow Progent to solve the majority of network problems without wasting time and expense by going to your location. In the vast majority of situations your IT problems can be dealt with by telephone or through a combination of phone help and remote network analysis. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network engineers and CISM certified security specialists to help with the most difficult system problems.
If you have a small business network with 10 to 50 desktop clients, Progent's computer outsourcing services save your company from dependence on an individual freelance service provider while giving you affordable and reliable access to high-quality technical support. By providing network support help when you need it, offering specialized expertise for key technologies, delivering value-added services such as automated server monitoring, and billing only for services you use, Progent gives you an economical way for maximizing the business value of your small business information system. Progent is the smart way for small businesses to create and support a robust and safe IT network and to have fast access to the skilled support typically available only to enterprises who can support a sizeable internal IT organization.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide 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 IT system from attack by outside and internal sources. ISA Server performs thorough examination of Internet protocols such as HTTP, which allows it to uncover many threats that can elude ordinary firewalls. The combined firewall and VPN architecture of ISA Server permit stateful filtering and inspection of all VPN streams. ISA Servers are the centerpiece of Microsoft's network security initiative, and Progent's Microsoft-certified experts and CISA and CISSP certified security consultants can help you enhance your IT protection through expert planning and integration of ISA Servers. ISA Server is available in a number of editions that include the ISA 2006 or 2004 Enterprise Edition Server and the ISA 2006 and 2004 Standard Edition Server. Progent’s Microsoft ISA Server support team can also show you how to configure MS Proxy Server and upgrade from ISA 2000 Server to the latest editions of ISA Server.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified consultants can provide small and midsize companies IT consulting, maintenance, and repair services for Microsoft SPS 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal solution for efficiently connecting people, teams and information. SharePoint Portal Server provides a common location for your workers or clients to access, manage, share and manipulate relevant information, files, and software and to communicate with one another. It enables quicker and more intelligent decisions, more efficient access across groups and more streamlined business processes. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to bring together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information available within and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services join employees, clients, teams and projects with the knowledge they’ve developed in a way that makes data convenient to find, retrieve and re-use.
