Data Security and Disaster Recovery For Small Company Information Systems: Stealth Penetration Testing
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and actively observed.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have extensive backgrounds creating Microsoft-based security solutions for IT networks with many locations, remote workers, and line-of-business eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA 2004 Firewall engineer can help your small or mid-size company design and deploy an installation of ISA Server 2004 that supports your IT security requirements without limiting your productivity.
Microsoft System Center 2005 offers integrated enterprise management by combining and enhancing the change, configuration, event, and performance management capabilities built into Systems Management Server 2003 and Microsoft Operations Manager 2005. System Center 2005 features powerful IT management products such as SMS 2003 for change and configuration management, MOM 2005 to improve operational efficiency, and System Center Reporting Server to aggregate event and throughput information. Progent has broad experience providing Systems Management Server consulting and Microsoft Operations Manager help as well as a long background troubleshooting and managing multi-vendor IT environments powered by Microsoft, Cisco, Unix/Linux, Mac and other IT companies. This variety of real-world consulting makes it possible for Progent to deliver end-to-end network management systems that utilize the industry's best technology.
The complexity and connectivity demands of Microsoft Windows Servers calls for an IT consulting team with practical experience and broad knowledge in planning and integrating seamless, end-to-end network technology systems. The experience of Progent's Microsoft-certified experts, which averages over 10 years working with Microsoft technology, ensures you success deploying Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2000 to align optimally with your strategic objectives. Progent’s IT services can assist you with planning, installing, managing, and troubleshooting Windows Server solutions that maximize the productivity of your computer network. Progent’s consultants can assist you with Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server, or Microsoft Windows NT Server so they efficiently support Windows Vista and other desktop clients.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, license-free monitoring tools that operate with the Linux OS and can be deployed to analyze UNIX environments, MS Windows systems, or multi-platform situations in which the Linux OS and MS Windows run side by side. The Nagios monitor allows system support engineers to track network services including POP3, HTTP, SSH, and PING. MRTG permits you to track the traffic in and out of SNMP-enabled network appliances including servers, routers, and switches. Progent's network monitoring engineers can help you utilize both these tools to tune and troubleshoot your network.
Microsoft Exchange 2003 Support and Integration Engineer
Progent's Microsoft certified professionals offer world-class support for corporate-wide implementations of Microsoft Exchange. Progent's consultants can show you how to plan multi-site Exchange Server 2007 rollouts or updates and can provide local personnel to help enterprises with installations of Microsoft Exchange in the San Francisco Bay Area or any region served by Progent's consultants.
Network monitoring ordinarily entails tracking a network’s resource utilization in order to identify throughput bottlenecks or fix hardware or software problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are useful, license-free network monitoring utilities that work under Linux or UNIX and can be deployed to observe mixed-platform networks where Linux and Windows coexist. Progent's system support consultants can show you how to use both these tools to optimize and repair your network. Progent's UNIX support services offer small businesses and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris networks that coexist with Microsoft-based technology.
E-Mail Guard is a comprehensive solution for blocking spam and virus attacks. E-Mail Guard handles the security and management of company email by offering continually improved spam and virus blocking, policy management, content testing, and protection against email-based DHA and DoS attacks. E-Mail Guard also includes monitoring, management and reporting tools as well as outbound email filtering to help you fix your email system and define and regulate corporate email policy.
Progent's Juniper Networks consultants can show you how to set up and manage Juniper Firewalls and Juniper IPSec VPN products and Juniper Security Manager software for Juniper Netscreen Firewalls. In addition to offering configuration services for
Juniper Networks Firewalls and VPN products, Progent's CISSP qualified security experts and CISM certified consultants can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and design protection into your business processes.
Progent provides national remote technical support and troubleshooting services for businesses that run Solaris environments or whose IT systems include a mix of Sun Solaris and Microsoft technology. Remote technical support offers maximum return for your information technology budget by extending client productivity and shortening the time charged for computer analysis and repair. Sophisticated remote access utilities and skilled service specialists and engineers allow Progent to solve the majority of network issues without wasting time and expense by traveling to your site. In the vast majority of situations your IT problems can be dealt with over the phone or via a combination of phone support and online access. Progent can offer the services of Cisco certified CCIE network experts and CISSP and ISSAP qualified security professionals to help with the most difficult network problems.
Progent’s experienced Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting services including infrastructure design, configuration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security solutions. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector attack protection, and safe access services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop appliances for small and home businesses to scalable enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed platform,minimizing common OS-specific security holes. PIX firewalls offer multiple integrated protection and connectivity services, including cutting edge application-aware firewall services, VoIP and multimedia security, interoffice and remote access IPSec VPN connectivity, intelligent networking services, and comprehensive management options. The Cisco ASA 5500 Adaptive Security Appliances utilize engineering developed for firewalls from the Cisco PIX 500 product line. Progent’s network security experts can show you how to select and configure any PIX 500 or ASA 5500 Series security appliances including the the Cisco PIX 506E, the Cisco PIX 525 Firewall, and the Cisco ASA 5540 Adaptive Security Appliance.
Microsoft Exchange and Apple Mac workstations can work together efficiently. Progent's Mac and Microsoft qualified experts can show you how to install Microsoft Entourage and Microsoft Exchange Server so your Mac users can collaborate with colleagues who use Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage 2008 for Mac, Exchange and Mac software can coexist, allowing Mac users to get and send messages, examine the Exchange global address list, import addresses, synchronize appointments, and alert fellow workers to conferences via your Exchange account. Progent will verify that your Exchange Server is properly set up and that WebDAV and Outlook Web connectivity are working. Progent also offers specialized onsite Entourage education.
Progent's pricing policy is to charge for remote support and in-person help per minute. As a result, you are charged exclusively for received support. Progent does not impose a higher rate for after-hours or urgent support, and within California or in areas where Progent provides in-person support, Progent does not charge for travel time except for urgent calls where on-site work is less than four hours. Also, Progent applies no startup fee and asks no monthly commitment. Many service organizations impose substantial minimum payments or charge for every quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity does away with big bills for quick solutions so you will not be tempted to permit simple problems to stay unaddressed.
Key characteristics of Microsoft Great Plains software include a modular design that lets you buy only the functionality you need, a standards-based architecture based on Microsoft technologies to protect your investment and provide a highly interconnected environment, enhanced reporting capabilities that allow you to track all operations, revenues and spending and sales patterns, integration with Microsoft Office to enable access to corporate information, the capability to integrate information from almost any database or workstation application into Microsoft Dynamics GP, plus an open design that makes it easy to develop custom applications. Progent can show you how to configure and support a reliable, secure server and communications network to support Microsoft Dynamics GP, and can provide experienced Great Plains consultants to show you how to convert the advanced features of Great Plains software into a high-value business solution.
Progent's Sun Solaris platform consulting experts provide small companies and software developers help with administering and maintaining Sun Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered networks. Progent can give your business access to Solaris experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM and CISA credentials. This wide array of expertise offers you a convenient single consulting firm to help you build and manage a secure and robust mixed-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or leading Linux platforms including RedHat, SUSE, Mandriva Linux, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
