Minnesota Computer Network Security and Business Continuity For Small Company IT Systems: Security Consulting and Support
Company information networks in the state of Minnesota can depend on instant online technical support from Progent's accredited security consultants to resolve urgent security issues. The cost is reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and support is world class. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the expertise of senior security consultants with top security certifications.
If your Minnesota network is based some distance from larger urban areas such as Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, or Bloomington, contact with certified network security consultants may be limited when there's an emergency. This can result in lost productivity for your company, angry customers, unproductive workers, and defocused executives. By contacting Progent, you can get in touch with a qualified security engineer ready to offer expertise when you require it to get your system operating and salvage your data.
Progent can help you in your endeavors to protect your information system with services ranging from network security audits to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent offers affordable support to assist small businesses to configure and manage secure IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux operating systems.
Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and protection from email-borne attacks. Progent works with Postini to offer small businesses E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that stops spam and email-borne viruses before they are able to penetrate your network firewall. Learn more about E-Mail Guard Spam Blocking and Virus Protection.
Progent's security consultants are available remotely or in person to provide a range of emergency or project-based computer security services including:
Run automated security audits
Clean up quickly after virus and worm attacks
Install firewalls from multiple vendors
Configure safe methods for remote and mobile connectivity
Install automated applications for protection against spam and DHAs
Progent's support professionals offer advanced support in key areas of network protection including security assessment, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.
Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing network security environment through exhaustive remote automated testing via advanced utilities and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves you time and money and offers a detailed portrayal of weaknesses. The knowledge your company is provided can make up the foundation of a security plan that can allow your information system to operate safely and evolve quickly to future risks.
Automated Network Security Evaluation
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis products including MBSA and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a set of programmed network auditing scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad knowledge of additional security analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and react appropriately.
Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes, install auditing applications, plan and deploy a protected system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to help you set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more concerning Progent's network security analysis.
Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Find out additional information concerning Progent's stealth penetration analysis support services.
Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes in-depth field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the support of consultants with important networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Engineering Expertise for Microsoft ISA Server MS Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 is a comprehensive gateway that offers a powerful application layer firewall, VPN, proxy, and Web caching platform for securing the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a wide range of attacks. Progent's Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 engineers can show you how to design, cost-justify, test, implement, customize, and support the Standard or Enterprise edition of ISA Server on your network.
Cisco Firewalls Support Expertise
Progent’s experienced Cisco IT security consultants provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services covering infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, high throughput, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, specially designed operating system,minimizing common OS-specific security gaps. Read more details about Progent's Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Consulting Services.
Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and remote access products for small businesses represent a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP qualifications who can help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business objectives. Learn more information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.
Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and choose the right technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget limits.
Expert Security Design
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack processes and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a set of steps intended to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your IT security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the damage, document the event, and get business functions running as soon as possible.
Progent's expert IT security engineers can to assist you to run a comprehensive risk evaluation and define a company-wide security plan to establish security policies and controls to minimize ongoing assaults and threats.
CISM Certified Security Support Services
The Certified Information Security Manager committee defines the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that information security managers are required to learn. CISM gives executive management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to provide efficient security management and support consulting. Progent can provide the services of CISM qualified security consultants to help businesses with:
CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Support
The CISSP credential recognizes expertise with a global standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the field of data protection defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a broad range of security fields including:
ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's ISSAP certified network architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive work with information security architecture. The ISSAP credential indicates proven competence in the more complex demands of IS security architecture within the wider scope of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture such as.
CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified security audit engineers are available to help your IT organization with:
IS Audit Services
Information Technology Administration
Systems and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
Information Technology Service Delivery
Safeguarding Data Resources
Business Continuity Planning
GIAC Qualified Network Security Consulting Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional has the skills appropriate to deliver services in important areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-certified IS security audit experts can assist your business with:
Get in Touch with a Security Expert Immediately
To learn how to get in touch with a Progent security engineer for urgent remote consulting help or complex security projects in Minnesota, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Urgent Online Computer Support.
For organizations with a mix of Mac and Windows-powered computers, Microsoft has two solutions for using Windows applications on Mac systems: Virtual PC and Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac. Progent's Apple-certified Mac experts can show you how to configure Virtual PC for Mac or Remote Desktop Connection Client so you can operate Windows-based software on Macintosh workstations.
Even if your business has a small network support staff and a limited IT budget, your information system can still have the same high availability and responsiveness that once required a substantial in-house service organization. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services for small businesses combine the experience of skilled Microsoft-certified and Cisco-certified IT consultants, the most recent system management software for proactive monitoring and alerts, and economical support programs such as a help desk service to keep your vital business applications and hardware up and running. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include round-the-clock network monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to cut service costs, resolve problems quickly, and anticipate problems before they degrade network productivity. Progent is expert at deploying System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative powered by Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to deliver comprehensive process management. Progent supports MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 to give small business systems enterprise-class reliability, protection and performance.
Microsoft Expert Application Consulting for Microsoft Accounting Software Sacramento Consultant
Progent’s Microsoft certified consultants offer a variety of consulting services for Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0. Great Plains is a Microsoft financial package and corporate management tool based, like all Microsoft accounting solutions, on the scalable and familiar platform of Windows technology. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0, the most recent edition of Microsoft financial products in the Microsoft Great Plains Accounting family, offers a cost-effective tool for managing and combining accounting, e-commerce, supply chain, manufacturing, project accounting, on-site support, CRM, and human resources. Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains is simple to deploy and configure, and with its segmented design you can license only the capability you currently require, with the ability to add users and enlarge capabilities in the future. Progent’s Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Software support experts can show you how to install, customize and administer Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 and also older versions of Great Plains including Great Plains 9.0 and Microsoft Great Plains 8.0.
Microsoft Great Plains software offers analysis and reporting capabilities that let you track all business processes, sales and expenses, and market trends with built-in drill-down, inquiry, and reporting functions. Progent's Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains reporting consulting services can help you create reports that let you understand your business more completely, turning uncooked data into useful management information. Progent can improve your reporting and business analysis by providing Crystal Reports expertise, FRx help, and Microsoft Excel programming. In addition to offering reporting consulting, Progent can supply Microsoft .NET consulting, Microsoft SQL Server help, and application experience with VBasic, XML and other development environments in order to offer custom line-of-business software development and eCommerce solutions that integrate transparently with Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains.
Progent's Network Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services are designed especially for small businesses who require fast access to a Help Desk Call Center with professional phone support and effective escalation options but who must operate within a limited information technology budget. Important components of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Support Services are Helpdesk Support,
Secure Remote Access Support, Initial System Evaluation, Expert Prioritization, Virtual Help Desk Call Center Services, By-the-Minute Billing, and Help Desk Applications Recommendation and Integration.
Progent's Data Center professionals can show you how to find high availability data centers that meet the specific needs of your business. High availability co-location sites are particularly appealing to small organizations due to of their low cost and simplified logistics in comparison to pursuing a do-it-yourself strategy. Trying to create an on-site data center that offers even a basic level of fault tolerance is too expensive for the majority of small companies. Progent is ready to help you reap all the benefits of non-stop data centers and 24x7 colo sites by providing a complete range of consulting and support services.
Broadwing Communications is the first carrier to deploy an all-optically switched network offering low latency and high performance. Broadwing provides a wide selection of data services including Broadwing Full T1, Point-to-Point T1, T3, DSL, ISDN PRI, and ATM. Broadwing Communications also offers Voice over IP solutions as well as switched and dedicated voice long distance. Progent has an agent agreement with Broadwing Communications and is an authorized Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner with the expertise to help you incorporate Broadwing Communications data/voice services to build a world-class, integrated communications infrastructure on a small-business budget.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified computer engineers can provide expert support for a broad range of products and technologies and can deliver that expertise online anywhere in the U.S. or in person in select cities throughout the United States and anywhere in Northern California. Progent provides 24x7 online help for information systems based on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac, or for systems that include a combination of Windows and UNIX/Linux technology. Progent also offers the help of Cisco CCIE infrastructure engineers for complex network problems, plus the assistance of CISM-qualified security engineers to assist with complex security design and problem solving. Progent has provided remote network support to businesses in all 50 states in the U.S.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team can provide network help and information technology expertise for Microsoft Operations Manager and for the expanding family of Application Management Packs that extend the power of MOM to a broad array of vital services. Progent offers consulting for MOM 2005 and MOM 2000 to give small information systems ultra-high reliability, security and performance. Progent can help you take full advantage of MOM by performing needs assessment, deployment, setup, special programming, technical support, Help Desk services, security planning, and management. With more than five years of experience working with the NetIQ technology upon which MOM is based, Progent's network consulting professionals can provide small businesses enterprise-class support for MOM.
Progent has created a sophisticated support reporting system that records and formats complete documentation for all billed services. Unlike some independent consultants or local support organizations who offer minimal documentation or details of services performed, every service delivered by Progent is tracked by full documentation. Each Progent staff member has access to the support documentation transmitted by each staff member to each client. The discipline of documenting and organizing service records results in more efficient support and eliminates a variety of common misfortunes such as when a support client is virtually held hostage to a consultant who refuses to release vital service information.
Progent provides national online technical support and troubleshooting services for companies who operate UNIX, Linux, or Solaris networks or whose information systems include a combination of UNIX/Linux and Microsoft products. Remote network consulting offers optimum leverage for your information technology dollar by extending user efficiency and shortening the time charged for computer analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote support technology and experienced service specialists and consultants allow Progent to solve the majority of network problems without squandering time and money by going to your location. In the vast majority of cases your network issues can be remediated by telephone or via a mix of phone support and remote network analysis. Progent can put you in touch with Cisco CCIE network experts and CISM qualified security professionals to help you with the most difficult system problems.
Progent offers consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security appliances such as the Firefox X Core line of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you choose, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard VPN security product that fits your network protection plan and fits your IT budget. Progent can also help you to combine WatchGuard Firewall/VPN and WatchGuard SSL VPN products with protection products from other vendors and offer a convenient source for technical support, education, and security expertise.
Progent’s team of Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants average more than a decade of real-world industry experience, at the front lines of network service, performing a broad variety of technical projects for an extensive array of customers. Each Progent consultant shares a refined collection of personal best practices which are incorporated into shared best practices training that Progent instills in its support team. This ensures that you get not just world-class IT skills, but also a support engineer with field-tested approaches for using technical knowledge to repair real-world network problems rapidly.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have 18 years of experience providing e-mail, electronic messaging and email/telephony combination solutions for San Francisco Bay Area businesses. Progent provides affordable Exchange Server consulting services to enhance email security and virus protection, achieve fault tolerant email, and facilitate remote and mobile email access. Progent’s Microsoft Exchange consulting and support services can assist you in designing and deploying a Microsoft Exchange update or a move from a legacy SMPT server or older Microsoft Email product such as Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or Exchange Server 2000. In addition Progent offers Windows XP and Vista desktop email help for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and can show you how to configure Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2000, Outlook XP, and Outlook Web Access (OWA). For email virus protection and spam blocking, Progent offers expertise with Postini spam filtering and Trend Micro Scanmail. Progent is also an authorized Postini Managed Service Provider (Postini MSP). As a Postini aggregator, Progent can help small organizations take advantage of Postini’s enterprise-class spam blocking solutions.
