Illinois Computer Network Security and Safe Management For Small Business Information Systems: Security Expertise and Support
Business IT networks in the state of Illinois can now get quick phone-based access to Progent's accredited security experts to fix emergency security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is per minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex projects that requires the knowledge of senior security consultants with top security certifications.
In case your Illinois small business is away from major urban neighborhoods like Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, or Naperville, help from accredited network security support specialists may be limited during a crisis. This could mean a loss of productivity for your business, angry clients, unproductive workers, and defocused management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a qualified security professional ready to deliver expertise when you have to have it to get your network on line and recover your information.
Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to protect your network with services ranging from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers affordable support to assist small businesses to configure and maintain safe IT environments based on Windows and Cisco Systems products and that may include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms.
Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based security threats. Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and e-mail-based viruses and worms before they can penetrate your network firewall. Find out additional information about E-Mail Guard Spam Filtering and Virus and Worm Protection.
Progent's security experts are accessible online or in person to offer a variety of emergency or longer-term IT security services including:
Perform extensive network security audits
Recuperate rapidly after attacks
Configure and troubleshoot firewalls
Implement secure methods for offsite and mobile access
Deploy automated utilities for protection against spam and DHAs
Progent's security experts provide advanced services in vital areas of network security that include analysis, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security consulting.
System Evaluation
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the strength of your current computer security systems by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated software tools and proven procedures. Progent's experience in administering this service saves you consulting fees and assures a detailed picture of gaps. The knowledge your company is provided can be used as the basis of a network protection strategy that can permit your network to run dependably and adapt rapidly to new threats.
Automated Security Audits
Progent offers expertise in the use of security auditing software including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of programmed network auditing scans to uncover potential security problems. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional network auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and respond effectively.
Progent can help you build security into your company processes, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are available to help you configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Learn more about Progent's network security audits.
Stealth Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's network penetration analysis support services.
Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes extensive field work with major firewalls and VPN products offered by a variety of vendors including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the services of engineers who have earned key networking certifications including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Consulting Services for ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 is a multi-functional gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, VPN, and web caching platform for protecting the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 experts can show you how to design, cost-justify, pilot, install, customize, and manage any version of ISA Server on your network.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Support Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewall products delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced protection, performance, and excellent availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform,eliminating common OS-specific security gaps. Learn additional information about Progent's Cisco Firewalls Support Services.
Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and offsite connection technology for small organizations represent a full line of manageable security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business objectives. Read more information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and medium size organizations professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper, and SonicWALL. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your spending restraints.
Certified Network Security Planning
Any business should develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive processes and response plans. The proactive plan is a collection of procedures that help to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your company's network security personnel to assess the impact caused by a security penetration, fix the network, document the experience, and get business functions operational as rapidly as possible.
Progent's certified IS security consultants can to assist your business to run a full vulnerability assessment and define a company-wide security strategy to establish security policies and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and threats.
CISM Qualified Information Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager organization describes the core capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that information security professionals are required to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM qualified security professionals to assist companies with:
CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
The CISSP credential denotes expertise with a global standard for information security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted certification recognition in the field of information protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a broad range of security fields such as:
ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's ISSAP certified IT architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous testing and extensive experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated skill in the most in-depth requirements of information system security architecture within the broader scope of information security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security including.
CISA Certified Information System Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA network security audit experts are available to help your business with:
Information Systems Audit Services
IT Enforcement
Systems and Architecture Lifecycle
Information Technology Service Delivery
Protecting Data Assets
Business Continuity Planning
GIAC Certified Information System Security Consulting Support
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills appropriate to provide services in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC network security audit specialists can assist your company in the areas of:
Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Expert Now
To learn how you can get in touch with a certified security engineer for emergency online engineering help or complex security projects in Illinois, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Expert Remote Network Help.
Progent's high availability consulting services for small business networks offer Microsoft and Cisco-certified consulting experts who can help you deploy clustered servers to build a fault-tolerant computing environment that includes essential technologies and activities for mission critical environments. Progent’s fault-tolerant network experts can show you how to create non-stop networks by designing and deploying the expanding suite of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers. Clustered Windows servers for fault-tolerant systems include Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster. By helping you build your fault-tolerant environment around Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Cluster, Progent’s consulting experts can help implement a system architecture with features such as fault tolerant Internet access, network load balancing, fault tolerant data center design, fault tolerant interoffice connections, high-reliability multi-location systems, and fault-tolerant business continuation design.
Progent's SonicWALL consultants can show you how to select, install, and manage the SonicWALL Firewall, VPN and SonicWALL PRO product line and can offer training to help you to manage SonicWALL protection appliances. Progent's CISSP certified consultants, CISM certified security engineers, and CISA certified IS security audit consultants can help you design a complete security strategy, including written policies, and build security into your corporate processes.
Progent's consultants can provide Apple Macintosh clients a range of services such workstation help, integration with Windows-powered computers, email configuration, custom software programming, and one-on-one training. Progent's Apple-certified specialists and Microsoft-certified engineers can help your business build and maintain a safe, highly available IT system and communications architecture to support environments in which Apple Mac computers work with Microsoft-based and UNIX/Linux-based technology.
Progent's CISSP qualified security experts, or Certified Information Systems Security Professionals, are experts who have earned CISSP status through rigorous study and thorough examination. CISSP qualification indicates mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. American National Standards Institute has given the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include Security Administration Procedures, Security Architecture and Test Systems, Connection Control Systems, Applications Development Security, Business Processes Security, Hardware Security, Encryption, Telecommunications, Internet Security, and Business Continuity Planning.
Progent's Microsoft certified engineers can provide world-class consulting for enterprise-wide implementations of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's consultants can help you plan multi-location Exchange installations or upgrades and can supply onsite technicians to help large companies with installations of Exchange Server 2007 in the San Francisco Bay Area or any area served by Progent's consultants.
Microsoft Great Plains accounting offers analysis and reporting features that allow you to track all operations, revenues and spending, and sales trends with integrated drill-down, query, and reporting capabilities. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics GP reporting consulting expertise can enable you to design reports that let you understand your business more completely, converting raw data into useful business information. Progent is able to improve your reporting and business analysis by offering Crystal Reports consulting, FRx support, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to delivering reporting help, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET support, Microsoft SQL Server expertise, and application design with VBasic, XML and other tools in order to deliver specialized line-of-business application development and eCommerce applications that integrate transparently with Microsoft GP.
When performing consulting tasks for corporate customers, Progent uses a structured methodology driven by specified milestones in order to achieve financial, scheduling and engineering goals while reducing business disruption. Progent's Enterprise Services Methodology utilizes accepted project management standards derived from the best practices described by the Microsoft MSF methodology which specifies requirements definition, design recommendations, test models, design adjustments, and expert deployment. All phases are documented to provide a detailed summary of technical services performed and to help in ongoing network maintenance.
Network monitoring typically involves observing a system's resource utilization in order to uncover throughput bottlenecks or fix hardware or software problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are useful, free monitoring tools that run under Linux or UNIX and can be deployed to observe mixed-platform environments where UNIX and Windows operate together. Progent's network support consultants can show you how to take advantage of both these programs to optimize and repair your network. Progent's Linux consulting professionals provide small companies and programmers assistance with administering and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris networks that coexist with Windows-based products.
Progent's pricing model is to charge for phone support and in-person visits per minute. Consequently, you owe exclusively for delivered support. Progent does not demand a higher rate for off-hours or urgent support, and within California or in regions where Progent offers on-site service, Progent does not bill for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. In addition, Progent applies no startup charge and asks no retainer. Many service organizations impose large minimum fees or charge for each quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity eliminates big bills for fast repairs so you will not be tempted to allow simple problems to fester.
Progent’s business reporting consultants offer expertise in Crystal Reports, FRx, and Microsoft Access reporting tools. Progent can also help you configure the server, networking and protection foundation necessary to maintain a cutting-edge reporting system. Progent’s reporting consultants can be particularly helpful in helping you combine data from various data repositories including Access, Excel, XML, OLAP, SQL and a broad array of financial tools and enterprise planning programs.
