Wisconsin Information Security and Safe Management

Business computer networks in Wisconsin now have instant online access to Progent's qualified network security support specialists to assist with the toughest security issues. Rates are reasonable, charges are by the minute, engagement is quick, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the knowledge of seasoned security consultants with high-level security credentials.

If your Wisconsin organization is situated away from more populated metropolitan neighborhoods including Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, or Kenosha, access to certified network security consultants could be problematic when there's an urgent situation. This could mean a loss of productivity for your business, upset customers, idle employees, and distracted executives. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a certified security engineer who can offer assistance when you have to have it to get your information system on line and restore your information.

Progent can assist you at any level in your endeavors to defend your IT environment with support that ranges from network security checks to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to assist small businesses to design and maintain safe IT environments based on Windows and Cisco Systems technology and that may include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms.

Progent can also help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Progent has partnered with Postini to offer small companies E-Mail Guard, a managed service that stops spam and e-mail-based viruses before they are able to break through your corporate firewall. Learn more about E-Mail Guard Spam Filtering and Virus and Worm Protection.

Progent's security professionals are accessible online or on premise to offer a range of urgent or project-based network security services which include:

• Perform thorough network security evaluations
• Clean up rapidly after attacks
  
• Set up effective firewalls
• Configure secure methods for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy effective software for protection against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a comprehensive security strategy with proactive monitoring
  
• Offer comprehensive Help Desk Call Center Services
• Help Create an effective network backup and business continuity strategy based on Microsoft Data Protection Manager fault-tolerant technology

Progent's support professionals offer world-class support in key areas of network protection that include auditing, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security consulting.

System Audits
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the strength of your current computer protection implementation by performing comprehensive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in administering this service saves your company time and money and offers an objective picture of security holes. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the basis of a security plan that will allow your network to operate dependably and adapt rapidly to future risks.

Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent provides expertise in the use of security testing packages such as MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically running a variety of automatic system testing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with other network auditing tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes, configure scanning software, define and implement a secure system environment, and recommend policies to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to show you how to configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Learn more about Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation packages designed to allow small businesses to receive an impartial security evaluation from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized computer inside your company firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside attacks. The two security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured external location. The process is managed by a consultant with top security accreditations who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if appropriate.

Stealth Intrusion Testing Support Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key component of any serious network security plan. Progent’s security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are correctly set up and consistently observed. Find out more on Progent's network security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Expertise
Progent's expertise in security technology includes in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from a variety of vendors including Cisco Systems, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned key networking certifications including CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Engineering Services for ISA Server and Forefront TMG 2010
MS Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 and Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway are comprehensive gateways that provide a powerful application layer firewall, virtual private network (VPN), and web caching platform for securing the Internet-facing applications of any sized business against a wide variety of attacks. Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants and Microsoft Forefront TMG experts can show you how to design, rationalize, pilot, install, configure, and manage Forefront TMG 2010 or migrate to Forefront TMG from any edition of ISA Server.

Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Consulting Services
Progent’s certified Cisco network security consultants offer high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting services covering architecture, integration, and management of Cisco firewall and security technology. The PIX and ASA Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and application policy enforcement, multivector attack defense, and secure connectivity services. Ranging from economical, easy-to-install desktop devices for small and home offices to scalable enterprise-class appliances, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and high reliability for network environments of any size. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a proven, purpose-built platform, minimizing possible OS-specific security gaps. Read more details about Progent's Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls Engineering Services.

Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection products for small organizations represent a comprehensive range of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP certifications who are able to assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company objectives. Read more information concerning Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Products.

Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPSec VPN technology from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and select the right technologies from multiple suppliers to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.

Progent's expert IS security engineers can to help your company to perform a full vulnerability evaluation and define a company-wide security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Information Security Engineering Services
The Certified Information Security Manager organization describes the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that information security managers are expected to master. CISM gives business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM certified security consultants to assist businesses with:

• Information Security Strategies
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Information Security Implementation Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Management

Find out more details concerning Progent's CISM IS Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Services
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of an international standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of information protection under ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a variety security fields such as:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Mechanisms
• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

Read additional details concerning Progent's CISSP-certified Information Security Support Services.

ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's ISSAP qualified network architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous testing and significant experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential represents proven competence in the most challenging demands of IS security architecture within the wider scope of information system security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-qualified security consultants can help your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.

• Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecom and Network Infrastructure Protection
• Data Encryption Options
• Requirements Evaluation and Security Criteria
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Physical Security

Read more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Expertise.

CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Engineering Support
The CISA credential is an important achievement that indicates expertise in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified network security audit specialists can assist your business in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• IT Administration
• Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
• IT Support
• Protecting Information Assets
• Disaster Recovery Planning

Read additional details about Progent's CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Consulting Services.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS controls to reduce risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC IT risk management experts can provide a variety of risk identification services including:

• Collect information and review documentation to evaluate significant risk scenarios
• Inventory statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and company standards associated with your network to determine their possible impact on your strategic objectives
• Point out potential threats for your operational processes to help in evaluating your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and provide training to ensure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can contribute to your risk management program
• Match identified risk scenarios to your associated operatonal procedures to help determine risk responsibility
• Determine risk tolerance with your senior management and major stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement

Learn more information about Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts.

GIAC Accredited Information System Security Consulting Expertise
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in vital categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit specialists can assist your business with:

• Assessing Networks
• Incident Response
• Traffic Analysis
• Web-based Application Security

Learn additional information concerning Progent's GIAC IS Security Engineering Assistance.

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Specialist Now
To learn how you can ask a certified security consultant for emergency remote consulting expertise or long-term security engagements in Wisconsin, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Expert Online Computer Support.