Vermont Computer Network Security and Business Continuity For Small and Midsize Company IT Systems: Security Consulting and Support
Small business IT networks in the state of Vermont now have fast phone-based contact with Progent's certified security support specialists to help with critical security problems. The cost is competitive, billing is by the minute, engagement is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for complex projects that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with top industry certifications.
If your Vermont small business is situated outside of larger urban neighborhoods like Burlington, Rutland, or Montpelier, support from accredited security professionals could be limited when you have an emergency. This can result in a drop in income for your business, upset clients, unproductive workers, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a qualified security consultant who can offer help when you have to have it to keep your computer network operating and recover your data.
Progent can assist you at any level in your endeavors to protect your network with support ranging from security checks to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides affordable service to assist small businesses to set up and maintain secure IT environments based on Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers based on UNIX or Linux platforms.
Progent can also assist you to outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne attacks. Progent has partnered with Postini to provide small businesses E-Mail Guard, a managed service that intercepts spam and email-borne viruses before they are able to penetrate your network firewall. Learn additional information about E-Mail Guard Spam Filtering and Virus and Worm Defense.
Progent's security engineers are available remotely or in person to offer a range of emergency or longer-term IT security services including:
Perform thorough security evaluations
Clean up promptly after serious security breaches
Configure hardware and software firewalls
Configure secure techniques for offsite and mobile connectivity
Deploy effective utilities for protection against spam and directory harvest attacks
Progent's support professionals can deliver world-class services in key fields of system protection including analysis, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security planning.
System Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the vulnerability of your current computer protection systems by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis via advanced utilities and tested procedures. Progent's skill in administering this
testing saves you money and assures an accurate picture of system vulnerability. The knowledge your IT organization is provided can make up the basis of a network protection plan that can allow your information system to run safely and evolve quickly to future risks.
Automated Network Security Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the application of security evaluation packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of automatic system auditing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with other network analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and respond effectively.
Progent can help you build protection into your company processes, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a secure system environment, and suggest procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are available to help you configure a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Find out more concerning Progent's network security audits.
Network Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any successful IT system security plan. Progent’s security professionals can perform thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and consistently observed. Learn more on Progent's network security penetration analysis consulting.
Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Expertise
Progent's background in security technology includes in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by multiple companies including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and CkeckPoint. Progent offers the services of engineers with key networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Engineering Services for MS ISA Server 2006 Microsoft ISA Server 2006 is a comprehensive edge gateway that provides a powerful application layer firewall, VPN, and web caching platform for protecting the Internet-facing applications of any organization against a broad range of attacks. Progent's Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can show you how to design, rationalize, pilot, implement, configure, and manage the Standard or Enterprise version of ISA Server 2006 on your information system.
Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Support Expertise
Progent’s certified Cisco IT security consultants offer high-level PIX and ASA Firewall consulting support including infrastructure design, configuration, and management of Cisco firewall and security solutions. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, mutlivector attack defense, and safe connectivity services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide a high level of security, performance, and excellent reliability for IT systems of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, purpose-built platform,minimizing common OS-specific security holes. Read additional details about Progent's Cisco Firewalls Engineering Expertise.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection products for small businesses represent a complete range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your business objectives. Read more details about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security and VPN Products.
Consulting Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
Progent provides small and medium size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPSec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right technologies from multiple suppliers to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget limits.
Expert Security Design
Any company should develop a carefully considered security program that incorporates both preventive processes and reaction planning. The proactive strategy is a set of steps designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your company's security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the damage, record the event, and get the IT network restored as soon as feasible.
Progent's expert IT security consultants can to assist your business to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and define a computer security strategy to implement security policies and mechanisms to reduce ongoing assaults and dangers.
CISM Accredited Information Security Support Services
CISM organization defines the basic capabilities and global standards of performance that IT security managers are required to master. It gives business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification possess the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security administration and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM qualified security professionals to help companies with:
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP certification recognizes expertise with an international standard for data security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded certification accreditation in the field of data security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a broad range of security areas such as:
ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's ISSAP qualified system architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification through rigorous examination and significant experience with network security design. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated skill in the most in-depth requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the wider field of information system security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.
Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
Telecom and System Infrastructure Security
Encryption/Decryption Solutions
Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
CISA Certified Security Auditing Consulting Services
The CISA credential is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit experts are available to assist your business with:
IS Audit Services
IT Enforcement
Systems and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
IT Support
Safeguarding Information Assets
Disaster Recovery Preparedness
GIAC Qualified Network Security Engineering Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key categories of system, 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 (NSA). Progent's GIAC-certified information security audit specialists can help your IT organization with:
Talk to a Certified Progent Security Expert Now
To find out how you can contact a certified Progent security engineer for emergency online consulting support or complex security projects in Vermont, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Expert Remote Computer Support.
Progent’s Cisco Security/VPN professionals and CCIE and CCNP certified experts can help your small or mid-size company deploy and maintain Cisco’s security and Virtual Private Network technology such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN access concentrators. Cisco VPN products include both off-site connectivity and site-to-site VPNs with Cisco IOS Software and AIM hardware encryption cards, and hardware devices, such as a VPN concentrator, router, Cisco PIX Firewall, or dedicated VPN server for dial-up services. Cisco VPN products are simple to manage and provide the versatility to evolve with your 1:25 PM 6/28/2006growing business needs. Progent’s Cisco-certified network consultants support Cisco’s comprehensive family of products targeted at eliminating data pilfering, virus and worm outbreaks, DDoS attacks, and other security risks to your network. Progent can show you how to integrate Cisco technology to get secure access, intrusion protection, and full Identity services based on Cisco Access Control Server using RADIUS security and TACACS to establish a centralized user access control foundation for user certification, permissions, and tracking from an easy-to-use Web interface.
Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals have more than a decade of background providing email, digital messaging, and email and telephony combination support for small businesses as well as big corporations. Progent provides economical Exchange Server 2003 support to strengthen email and virus security, configure high availability email systems, and facilitate remote and wireless email access. Progent’s Exchange support services can assist you in designing and implementing a move from a legacy SMPT server or unsupported Microsoft Email software such as Microsoft Exchange 5.5 to Microsoft Exchange 2003 Server. In addition offers XP and Vista client-side Microsoft e-mail support for Microsoft Exchange and Outlook and can help you configure Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft Outlook XP. For e-mail virus protection and spam filtering, Progent offers expertise with Postini's managed services and Trend Micro Scanmail. Progent is an authorized Postini aggregator. As a Postini partner, Progent can help small businesses take advantage of Postini’s enterprise-class spam blocking technology.
Progent's certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consulting experts have broad backgrounds creating Microsoft-based security designs for information systems with multiple locations, mobile users, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA 2004 Firewall engineer is ready to help your small or mid-size company plan and implement an installation of ISA Server 2004 that supports your IT security requirements without limiting your network.
Progent's Virtual Help Desk Call Center services are an integrated expansion of your in-house IT support staff. Virtual Help Desk can include advanced call center services such as a dedicated telephone number with customer-specific greeting. Progent will also send calls directly to staff members who are specially set up and trained to support your account. In addition, Progent's Helpdesk professionals can manage trouble tickets from any customer trouble ticket software for transparent integration with your in-house technical services group. Benefits of Progent's Virtual Computer Support Helpdesk services include high-end Microsoft Help Desk Call Center expertise the minute you call, seamless extension of your internal support staff, front-line support for critical client issues, and by-the-minute billing.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2000 consultants offer network support and information technology consulting services for the entire line of Microsoft .NET Servers, Windows 2000 Server, and Microsoft Windows Server 2003. Progent's Microsoft Windows Server 2000 configuration, update, and troubleshooting services include system design, deployment, documentation, local and remote support, Call Center outsourcing, expert security consulting, full service outsourcing, and cost-effective co-sourcing.
Progent provides support expertise for WatchGuard Firewall/VPN security appliances such as the Firefox X Core family of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL Core VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard consultants can help you choose, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard VPN security product that fits your network protection strategy and fits your computer budget. Progent can also assist you to combine WatchGuard Firewall/VPN and SSL VPN devices with protection products from other vendors and provide a one-stop source for technical help, training, and security expertise.
Progent is a pioneer in cost-effectively providing enterprise-class network help to small companies. Progent's success in handling the IT support requirements of the historically underserviced small company sector is the combined result of key technical and process breakthroughs that have eliminated much of the traditional costs out of administering IT service, added unprecedented technical skill into the IT service system, and significantly streamlined the solution process.
Progent’s Cisco-certified technology consultants can provide help for Cisco routers that includes integration and support services plus experienced Cisco IOS software consulting. Progent's services for Cisco routers include support for redundancy, automatic fail-through, and redundant power for better fault tolerance and system availability. Cisco routers for small to mid-size businesses include Cisco 800 Series Routers, Cisco 1700 Series Routers, the Cisco 1750 Modular Access Router, the Cisco 1751 Modular Access Router, the Cisco 1760 Access Router, Cisco 2500 Router, Cisco 2600 Series Routers, Cisco 3600 Routers, and Cisco 3700 Series Routers. The Cisco 800 Router Series securely connects small or branch offices and remote telecommuters to the Internet or to the company network via ISDN, DSL, Ethernet or serial connections. Cisco 1700 Router Series modular access routers are built to offer an economical, complete e-business solution for small and midsize businesses. They deliver versatility and ease of management to meet complex e-business demands, such as seamless data/voice/video/fax integration, high-performance broadband Internet access, and comprehensive security solutions. Cisco 2600 Routers are a line of scalable multiservice access routers for remote offices, offering versatile local area network and wide area network options, multiple security settings, and an array of high performance CPUs. The Cisco 3700 Router Series is a family of modular, multiservice connection solutions for mid-sized and large-sized offices. With more than 70 available interface options, the Cisco 3700 family provides solutions for data, voice video, hybrid dial access, VPNs, and multiprotocol data routing.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, free monitoring utilities that operate under Linux and can be deployed to monitor UNIX environments, MS Windows systems, or mixed-OS networks where Linux and Windows coexist. The Nagios monitor lets system support engineers to monitor network services including POP3, HTTP, FTP, and PING. Multi Router Traffic Grapher lets you track the traffic in and out of SNMP-enabled network devices such as processors, routers, and switches. Progent's network monitoring experts can help you utilize both these utilities to tune and troubleshoot your computer network.
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any overall network security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored.
Progent can give you access to application developers who can modify your Microsoft Dynamics ERP, MRP, and accounting system programs to meet your unique company requirements. Progent’s Microsoft support experts provide expertise in Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP Software, Microsoft Dynamics NAV Business Management Software, Microsoft Dynamics SL 6.5 Accounting Software, and Microsoft Retail Management Software. Progent also provides expert e-Commerce integration services for safe, corporate-wide resource sharing as well as interfacing with CRM programs.
Broadwing is the first telecom company to complete an all-optically switched backbone network offering low latency and maximum performance. Broadwing provides a wide range of data services including Broadwing T1, Point-to-Point T1, DS3, DSL, ISDN, and Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Broadwing also provides VoIP solutions as well as switched and dedicated voice services. Progent has an agent agreement with Broadwing Communications and is an authorized Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and a Cisco Systems Partner equipped with the skill to show you how to integrate Broadwing data/voice services to build an enterprise-class, cohesive communications network on a down-to-earth budget.
