Maryland Information Security and Business Continuity For Small Business Information Systems: Security Expertise and Support Services
Business information networks in the state of Maryland can now get instant phone-based help from Progent's certified security experts to assist with emergency security problems. Rates are competitive, charges are by the minute, sign-up is fast, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for complex projects that demand the expertise of senior security consultants with top security credentials.
If your Maryland office is located some distance from more populated metropolitan neighborhoods like Baltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Dundalk, the availability of accredited network security professionals may be problematic when there's a crisis. This can result in a loss of revenue for your business, upset customers, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a certified security engineer ready to provide assistance when you need it to keep your information system on line and recover your data.
Progent can help you in all your endeavors to defend your IT environment with services that can range from network security checks to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent offers affordable support to help small and midsize companies to design and manage secure IT environments based on Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux platforms.
Progent can also help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based assaults. Progent works with Postini to offer small businesses E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and email-borne viruses before they can break through your corporate firewall. Find out more concerning E-Mail Guard Spam Blocking and Virus and Worm Protection.
Progent's certified engineers are accessible online or on site to offer a variety of urgent or longer-term network security services including:
Run thorough network security evaluations
Recover promptly after serious security breaches
Install effective firewalls
Implement secure methods for remote and mobile access
Deploy effective software for defense against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
Progent's consultants offer advanced services in vital areas of system security that include auditing, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security consulting.
System Audits
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the effectiveness of your existing network protection environment through comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated software tools and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this
testing saves your company consulting fees and assures a detailed portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your company gains can make up the basis of a network protection plan that will permit your network to run safely and evolve rapidly to new risks.
Automated Network Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis software including MBSA and GFI LANguard for affordably running a set of programmed network testing checks to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive experience with additional network auditing products such as NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and respond effectively.
Progent can show you how to build protection into your business operations, install auditing tools, define and implement a protected system architecture, and suggest procedures to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's network security assessment.
Network Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any serious IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently observed. Learn more concerning Progent's network penetration testing consulting.
Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in network security solutions encompasses in-depth field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network products from a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.
Support Expertise for Microsoft ISA Server 2006 Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 is a comprehensive gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), proxy, and Web caching platform for protecting the Internet-facing applications of any sized business against a broad range of attacks. Progent's Microsoft-certified ISA Server engineers can show you how to plan, cost-justify, pilot, install, configure, and support any edition of ISA Server on your information system.
Cisco Firewalls Engineering Services
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consulting professionals provide expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services covering architecture, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewall products delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from compact, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and excellent reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built operating system,minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps. Read additional information about Progent's Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Engineering Expertise.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and remote connection technology for small businesses offer a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your business to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align best with your business goals. Read more information concerning Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security and VPN Appliances.
Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and medium size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget limits.
Expert Security Consulting
Every business ought to have a thoroughly considered security program that incorporates both pre-attack procedures and reaction planning. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive plan helps your company's IT security engineers to assess the impact caused by a security penetration, repair the network, record the experience, and get business functions operational as soon as feasible.
Progent's expert IT security engineers are available to help your business to perform a full risk assessment and create a computer security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and threats.
CISM Accredited Network Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager organization describes the basic competencies and international standards of skill that information security professionals are required to learn. CISM provides business management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver effective security management and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM qualified security consultants to assist businesses with:
CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP certification denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential recognition in the field of data security stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a variety security fields such as:
ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's ISSAP certified network architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most complex requirements of IS security architecture within the wider scope of information system security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture including.
CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit consultants can assist your IT organization with:
IS Audit Process
Information Technology Administration
Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle
Information Technology Service Delivery
Protecting Data Assets
Business Continuity Planning
GIAC Certified Network Security Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit specialists are available to help your IT organization with:
Talk to a Security Engineer Immediately
To find out how you can ask a Progent security consultant for urgent online engineering assistance or complex security engagements in Maryland, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Expert Online Network Support.
Progent's Linux consulting services offer small and mid-size businesses and software developers support for administering and maintaining Linux systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent can give your business contact with Linux consultants, consulting professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA certification. This wide array of expertise provides you with an easy single source to show you how to build and manage a protected and robust cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that supports Linux and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Microsoft Windows with leading Linux platforms such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help you to evaluate the benefits of Windows Server 2008 for your business, develop test systems and migration strategies, integrate Windows Server 2008 with your network infrastructure and applications, train your support personnel how to use new administration utilities, and provide ongoing consulting and troubleshooting via affordable alternatives including Help Desk support and online technical support.
As the global leader in IP connectivity, Cisco provides the most complete range of products for enabling ISPs to sell protected, scalable, innovative voice, video, and data services. Progent's Cisco-certified network consultants have extensive background serving the distinct needs of ISPs by assisting Internet Service Providers to architect, implement, and support high-availability, scalable connectivity solutions suitable for public networks.
Microsoft System Center 2005 offers integrated enterprise management by combining and enhancing the change, configuration, event, and performance management capabilities provided by Systems Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. System Center 2005 features powerful information management tools including Systems Management Server 2003 for change and configuration management, MOM 2005 to improve network efficiency, and System Center Reporting Server to aggregate event and throughput data. Progent has extensive experience providing Systems Management Server consulting and Microsoft Operations Manager consulting as well as a long background supporting and administering mixed-vendor IT environments based on Microsoft, Cisco, Unix/Linux, Mac and other technology companies. This variety of hands-on experience enables Progent to deliver end-to-end network management systems that utilize the industry's best software.
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants provide small and mid-size businesses enterprise-class consulting support for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. Systems Management Server is Microsoft's solution for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, a component of Microsoft System Center 200, allows companies to install important applications quickly and reliably to appropriate workers, reduce software expense and stay compliant by understanding usage profiles, enhance Windows protection by improving your awareness of weak points and by installing targeted updates, manage your mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or geography, and reduce operational expenses by efficiently utilizing the management functions incorporated into Windows. Progent’s SMS consulting professionals can help you use SMS effectively for automated software and application deployment, security patch administration, and resource monitoring management including program and appliance inventory.
Cisco Unified Communications architecture for VoIP provides the platform and tools for building a single converged communications system that can handle voice, video, and data traffic simultaneously. The Unified Communications solution delivers this capability while sustaining a high degree of network reliability, Quality of Service, and protection. Progent can provide a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert or Cisco Certified Network Professional to help you benefit from Cisco Voice over IP products. Progent’s IP telephony consultants can evaluate your current IT system and Internet connectivity channels to see if your environment is adequate to support VoIP products efficiently, assist you to select and implement Cisco hardware and software that make sense for your current needs as well as future growth plans, and configure your Cisco Voice over IP solution with products from third-party companies. Progent is able to deliver expertise in the entire family of Cisco IP Telephony products such as Cisco Unity and Cisco CallManager.
Progent's SonicWALL experts can help you select, deploy, and maintain the SonicWALL Firewall, SonicWALL VPN and SonicWALL PRO product line and can provide training to allow you to support SonicWALL protection appliances. Progent's CISSP qualified consultants, CISM certified security engineers, and CISA qualified IS security audit consultants can show you how to create a complete network protection plan, including written policies, and design security into your corporate practices.
Progent’s staff of Microsoft and Cisco certified experts average more than ten years of real-world industry experience, at the forefront of network service, executing a wide variety of IT tasks for an extensive mix of customers. Every Progent consultant shares a proven collection of personal best practices which are combined into company-wide best practices standards that Progent instills in its support personnel. This guarantees that you get not only world-class technical skills, but also a consultant with proven approaches for applying technical knowledge to fix actual network problems rapidly.
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals offer world-class support for corporate-wide deployments of Microsoft Exchange 2007. Progent's experts can show you how to plan multi-site Exchange Server 2007 installations or upgrades and can provide local personnel to assist large companies with deployments of Microsoft Exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area or any region covered by Progent's consultants.
Progent provided a wireless integration environment that enabled a school to improve productivity and avoid the recurring expense of a dedicated data connection. Progent proposed a Proxim Tsunami high-speed wireless bridge. The low-cost building-to-building Proxim wireless bridge is intended for interfacing separate sites up to 2.5 miles apart and can extend to even greater distances. This wireless solution offered better performance and dependability than simply amplifying the 802.11b network, and since it utilizes the 5.8Ghz band it offered immunity to outside interference.
Windows Enterprise Directory demands extensive practical experience to integrate optimally across an enterprise. Progent’s Microsoft qualified engineers are skilled in designing, integrating, and maintaining complex Microsoft Enterprise AD installations. Progent’s areas of expertise with Windows 2003 AD include replication problems, multi-domain partition design, correcting corrupted Active Directory objects, dealing with legacy legacy version configuration objects in production Active Directory systems, and fixing failed installations of AD and AD-integrated programs.
Progent's UNIX family consulting services provide small companies and developers help with managing and supporting UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that operate with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX consultants, support professionals qualified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM and CISA credentials. This broad array of expertise provides you with a convenient single source to show you how to build and manage a secure and robust mixed-platform connectivity and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Microsoft Windows with major variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux variations including RedHat Linux, SUSE, Mandrake/Mandriva, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent offers Bay Area small to midsize companies enterprise-class IT consulting plus remote or onsite technical support for networks based on Windows Server technology and Microsoft's .NET servers including MS Exchange Server 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco qualified IT consultants also can provide security consulting for companies ranging from the small office to the global enterprise.
Cisco has developed an extensive array of routers that includes appliances designed to provide the protection, performance, and reliability levels demanded by small and medium-sized companies. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and redundant power for improved fault tolerance and system uptime. Progent can help you choose and configure Cisco routers to establish a reliable infrastructure for your network and to make it economical to grow as you add new users, start new offices, deploy new services, open your network to clients and partners, and support an increasingly mobile workforce. Progent can provide help with a variety of routers based on the Cisco IOS operating system, such as the Cisco SB 100, the Cisco 800 Series Routers, Cisco 2800 and 7200 Integrated Services Routers, plus legacy 2500 and 2700 Routers.
