South Carolina Computer Security and Business Continuity For Small and Midsize Business Information Networks: Security Consulting and Support
Company information networks in South Carolina can depend on instant remote access to Progent's accredited network security consultants to fix urgent security issues. The cost is reasonable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for long-term engagements that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with high-level security certifications.
If your South Carolina business is situated away from major urban areas such as Columbia, Charleston, Rock Hill, or Greenville, access to accredited network security engineers could be limited during an urgent situation. This could mean a drop in productivity for your company, angry clients, idle workers, and distracted executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a qualified security consultant ready to deliver help when you need it to get your computer network on line and restore your data.
Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your efforts to defend your network with services that can range from security audits to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides economical support to help small businesses to configure and manage protected networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco Systems products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems.
Progent can also help you outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based security threats. Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small companies E-Mail Guard, an outsourced service that intercepts spam and e-mail-based security threats before they are able to break through your corporate firewall. Learn additional information about E-Mail Guard Spam Filtering and Virus Defense.
Progent's security engineers are available online or on site to offer a variety of urgent or longer-term network security services such as:
Run automated network security evaluations
Recover rapidly after serious security breaches
Configure effective firewalls
Implement safe solutions for offsite and mobile access
Deploy automated applications for defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
Progent's support professionals provide advanced support in vital areas of system protection that include security evaluation, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.
System Evaluation
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing computer security systems by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this
testing saves you consulting fees and offers an accurate picture of weaknesses. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the basis of a network protection strategy that can allow your network to run safely and adapt rapidly to new risks.
Automated Security Analysis
Progent offers consulting in the use of security evaluation products including MBSA and GFI LANguard for economically performing a variety of programmed system testing checks to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad knowledge of other security auditing utilities such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities like SolarWinds, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and react effectively.
Progent can help you build protection into your business operations, configure auditing software, plan and deploy a secure network architecture, and suggest procedures to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security engineers are ready to help you set up a firewall, design secure remote access to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Find out more about Progent's network security assessment.
Network Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can run extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently monitored. Learn more about Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.
Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's background in network security solutions includes in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network products offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the support of engineers with key networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Consulting Services for Microsoft ISA Server Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 is a multi-functional edge gateway that provides a fully integrated application layer firewall, virtual private network, and web caching solution for securing the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a broad variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server engineers can show you how to design, cost-justify, test, implement, customize, and manage any edition of ISA Server on your information system.
Cisco Firewalls Engineering Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consulting professionals offer expert PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and application policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to modular gigabit appliances, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls offer advanced protection, performance, and high availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform,minimizing common OS-specific security holes. Read more details concerning Progent's Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Consulting Services.
Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Services
Cisco's security and remote access products for small organizations represent a full range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP qualifications who can help your organization to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business objectives. Learn additional information about Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.
Engineering Services for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size companies professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWALL. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select appropriate products from a variety of suppliers to support your security objectives while staying within your spending limits.
Expert Network Security Consulting
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive procedures and response planning. The proactive plan is a collection of steps intended to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack plan assists your company's security personnel to assess the impact resulting from a security penetration, repair the system, record the event, and get business functions restored as rapidly as possible.
Progent's certified information security engineers are available to help you to perform a complete vulnerability assessment and create a network security plan to establish security policies and controls to reduce ongoing attacks and threats.
CISM Certified Network Security Support Services
The Certified Information Security Manager organization defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security management and support consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM certified security consultants to help businesses with:
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Assistance
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information protection defined by ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a broad range of security fields including:
ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Expertise
Progent's ISSAP certified network architecture professionals are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents proven skill in the most complex demands of IS security architecture within the wider field of information security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture including.
CISA Accredited Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA IS security audit specialists can assist your business with:
Information Systems Audit Services
Information Technology Enforcement
Systems and Architecture Lifecycle
Information Technology Service Delivery
Protecting Data Resources
Business Continuity Planning
GIAC Certified Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills necessary to provide services in important areas of network, data, and program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified network security audit specialists can assist your business in the areas of:
Talk to a Certified Security Expert Immediately
To learn how to ask a security engineer for urgent online consulting expertise or complex security engagements in South Carolina, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Urgent Online Network Support.
Progent's certified Systems Management Server consultants have extensive background helping small and mid-size companies save time and money by deploying SMS 2003 to manage configuration and change processes. Progent can help you install Systems Management Server 2003 to reduce change and configuration administration expenses, enhance network security, maximize output by keeping software current, enforce compliance with software licenses, and track software usage patterns to help you arrive at smart purchasing decisions. Progent can show you how to benefit from SMS 2003's cost-saving features for automated software deployment and application deployment, security patch management, asset management, and software and hardware inventory control. Progent's expertise with offsite support can further leverage the financial advantages of SMS 2003 and Progent's CISSP-certified engineers and CISM-certified security professionals can show you how to create a complete security plan that incorporates the powerful security functions of SMS 2003. Progent also provides high-end support for Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM), which is a vital part of Microsoft's System Center 2005 solution for automated network management.
Progent can provide organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and select locations nationwide with an expert familiar with the new improvements in Microsoft Office Word. An engineer from Progent's Experts Team can show you how to integrate MS Word's productivity enhancing components into the operations of your organization, assist with designing templates and developing time-saving macros, or provide 1-on-1 training to keep your business up to speed on MS Word 2007. Progent's engineers can help your business build and manage a protected, high-availability IT system infrastructure to support your MS Word applications.
Progent is a Certified Cisco Partner with expert Cisco-qualified consultants available to assist you to install or troubleshoot Cisco-powered networking solutions. As a Certified Partner for Cisco Systems, Progent offers the services of Progent's in-house CCIE-certified specialists with expertise in designing, deploying and troubleshooting network environments based on Cisco products. Because Progent is in addition a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and offers world-class support for a broad variety of business software, Progent can help you develop comprehensive information technology solutions that maximize the business benefit of your network. Cisco's industry-leading line of networking and security solutions supported by Progent includes PIX and ASA firewalls, protected broadband and integrated services routers, Aironet wireless access points, wired and wireless voice over IP phones, Cisco Catalyst switches, as well as protection and Virtual Private Network products.
Progent's Check Point Software consultants can show you how to select and configure Check Point Firewall and VPN utilities and appliances based on Check Point's technology to offer an affordable and effective security solution for your corporate network. Progent can also show you how to integrate other Check Point products including Check Point ZoneAlarm and Check Point FireWall with protection products from other suppliers and provide a central source for continuing technical support, administration, education, and design services.
The Help Desk Call Center support delivery model used by Progent offers small companies an dependable option to dependence on independent service individuals by offering extensive expertise accessible to numerous engineering groups, 24x7 access to urgent assistance, fast escalation to top-level experts for handling even the most intractable problems, service consistency and dependability, prompt follow through overseen by seasoned service managers, a variety of convenient ways for requesting support tasks, and a high level of progress transparency enabled by ticket updates and accessible via a web-based portal.
Progent’s Microsoft-certified experts can provide small and midsize companies IT consulting, support, and troubleshooting services for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003. Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server is an enterprise portal platform for efficiently connecting people, teams and data. SharePoint Portal Server offers a central spot for your employees or clients to connect to, manage, share and interact with relevant information, files, and software and to communicate with one another. It enables faster and better decisions, more efficient access across groups and more economical business processes. The primary objective of SharePoint Server is to gather together, in a relevant way, all of the diverse sources of information accessible within and without a business network. Windows SharePoint Services connect employees, clients, workgroups and projects with the information they’ve developed in a manner that makes data easy to locate, download and apply.
Progent’s Technical Response Center offers nationwide remote troubleshooting for Windows and Cisco-based small office IT networks. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-qualified service experts provide phone help and remote secure computer connection to isolate and resolve network problems rapidly and economically. The scope of technical expertise available from Progent's staff of nationwide service professionals allows Progent to escalate even the most difficult problems to qualified experts as required.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 experts can assist you to design, deploy, and manage an implementation of ISA Server 2006 on your information system that delivers the firewall security, speed and ease-of-use that your business requires.
Even if your business has a minimal network services staff and a modest 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-qualified and Cisco-qualified IT consultants, the most recent network management products for 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective support programs such as a help desk call center to keep your vital business applications and servers operating. Progent's 24x7 Network Management Services include round-the-clock network monitoring, server monitoring, and application monitoring to reduce support costs, resolve problems quickly, and anticipate issues before they degrade system productivity. Progent is expert at installing System Center 2005, part of Microsoft’s Dynamic Systems Initiative powered by Microsoft Operations Manager (Microsoft MOM) to perform comprehensive event management. Progent supports MOM 2000 and MOM 2005 to give small business systems enterprise-class availability, security and performance.
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Progent believes that a carefully architected and implemented information system is a pivotal piece for enabling any firm's growth, and Progent applies this belief in our own network infrastructure. Progent has built a fault-tolerant virtual office network that allows our staff engineers and authorized contractors to deliver fast and efficient service, cooperate closely on sophisticated jobs, and gain from career and private maturity from acting as part of an exciting company ethos of personal drive and independence.
Windows Server 2008 is a major advance in making IT networks more protected and available, easier to virtualize and administer, higher performing, and able to offer a better environment for web publishing. Progent can assist your company get the most from the enhancements built into Windows Server 2008 by delivering consulting, support, education, staffing, network monitoring, and security engineering services.
Progent’s fault tolerant system experts offer reliability consulting, disaster recovery services, system load balancing, non-stop interoffice connectivity, non-stop Internet connection design, 24x7 data center services, and other high-availability networking support to help your small business create a 24x7 environment for line-of-business applications. Progent has the experience to develop affordable, high-availability networks by deploying the evolving library of Microsoft Windows Cluster servers including Microsoft Windows 2003 Cluster Server, Microsoft SQL Server Cluster, and Microsoft Exchange Cluster Server. Progent’s Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants can show you how to you build a high-availability mutli-location network with a completely redundant Internet connection and efficient system load balancing.
Progent's ISSAP qualified security experts, or Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals, are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification through rigorous examination and extensive work with information security design. ISSAP consultants possess in-depth knowledge of access control mechanisms and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all phases of architecture security.
Progent’s computer outsourcing services for small companies feature planning Windows XP, Microsoft .NET Server, and BackOffice environments, managing upgrades to XP, Windows Server 2003, Active Directory, and Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, Help Desk services, remote and on-site troubleshooting, fixing chronic integration problems, and producing a company-wide security plan. Progent can help you maximize system reliability and performance via fault-tolerant configuration, redundant network architecture, and proactive server monitoring. Progent also provides project management assistance for major upgrades and can assist with requirements definition, resource inventory, BOM production, vendor qualification, purchasing coordination, and complete documentation. Progent’s IT outsourcing help also includes training for office productivity software such as Office XP.
