Overview of Progent's Remote Monitoring and Reporting Services
Remote 24x7 monitoring, automated alerts, and periodic reporting are vital for maintaining the health of your IT system and avoiding unnecessary and costly downtime. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology has advanced to the point that businesses of any size can afford a level of protection that was once reserved for large enterprises. Progent offers two types of RMM solutions available as low-cost services designed to help you detect and resolve a variety of network problems before they can seriously impact productivity.

Progent's ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure remote monitoring and management (RMM) service provides a wealth of features for delivering world-class RMM capabilities to small and mid-size businesses at a budget-friendly price. WAN Watch's features include network topology mapping, asset inventory, configuration and IP address management, advanced network monitoring and alerts, troubleshooting, and performance analysis. Progent's ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring and management services continually monitor the health of critical computers and feature automated services such as patch management and asset inventory. Find out about Progent's portfolio of low-cost ProSight network monitoring and management services for small and mid-size businesses.

Progent's server monitoring packages based on Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) allow you to keep continual watch over various Microsoft servers and .NET applications and automatically apply sophisticated heuristics developed by Microsoft to detect and automatically repair issues that could, if ignored, result in serious problems impacting network performance, security, or availability.

Progent offers the support of a nationwide team of computer experts with certifications from all major information technology vendors including Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware to help you mitigate issues uncovered by ProSight WAN Watch, ProSight LAN Watch, or System Center Operations Manager remote monitoring and management services. You can outsource your IT support services to Progent or co-source them by having Progent work closely with your in-house support staff. Either way, Progent can provide the knowledge to help you configure an effective RMM solution and the experience to solve problems quickly and affordably by providing world-class remote support or on-premises consulting.

Progent's ProSight Fixed-price Managed Services for Small and Medium Size Businesses
Progent provides a family of low-cost, fixed-price services designed to allow small and mid-size businesses to benefit from the same best-of-breed technology deployed by some of the world's leading corporations. Progent's ProSight series of network management outsourcing services covers all critical facets of information technology including email content filtering, threat defense based on machine leaning, automated backup and disaster recovery, network infrastructure health monitoring, VM hosting, and IT resources documentation management. ProSight managed services include:

  • ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
    ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

  • ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
    ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
    ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

  • ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
    ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

  • ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and affordable for small and mid-sized businesses to map out, monitor, optimize and debug their networking hardware like routers, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, endpoints and other networked devices. Using state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are always current, copies and manages the configuration of almost all devices on your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when issues are detected. By automating time-consuming management and troubleshooting processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary tasks like making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Find out more about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management consulting.

  • ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management techniques to keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the state of vital assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects an issue, an alarm is transmitted immediately to your designated IT staff and your Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be addressed before they have a chance to impact productivity Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

  • ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management Services
    ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and affordable alternative for small and mid-size organizations to get an objective evaluation of the health of their information system. Powered by some of the leading remote monitoring and management platforms available, and supervised by Progent's world-class group of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the deployment of your essential network devices adhere to industry leading practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also come with a year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include lower-cost management, better compliance with information security requirements, higher utilization of network resources, quicker problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and higher availability. Read more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure assessment.

The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service centered on a phone interview with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to help evaluate your organization's preparedness either to stop or recover quickly following an attack by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Hermes. Progent will consult with you personally to collect information concerning your existing security profile and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow best practices to build an efficient security and backup environment that aligns with your company's needs. For more information, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Automated Server Management with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a state-of-the-art RMM platform that proactively monitors physical and virtual, local and cloud-based IT resources to detect emerging troubles before they can disrupt your business. SCOM scans event records from designated servers, applica6ions, and services and then sorts and evaluates these network events based on a comprehensive, continually updated knowledge base. When SCOM detects a potential problem, it runs pre-programmed remedial scripts or generates alerts to notify specified support people. Microsoft System Center Operations Manager also produces trend analysis so you can track the performance of your network.

The version of SCOM included with System Center 2012 R2 adds the ability to monitor routers and switches, along with associated Virtual LANs, as well as Internet Information Services (IIS)-hosted .NET applications. Although SCOM remains a Microsoft-centric RMM platform, the latest releases allow you to monitor popular distributions of Linux and UNIX.

Progent's certified professionals can help configure Microsoft System Center Operations Manager to match your network architecture and operational needs, create specialized rules, evaluate SCOM trend data, and respond quickly and effectively to SCOM alarms via remote troubleshooting. For problems that need on-premises support, Progent can send a Microsoft-qualified field engineer to anywhere in the and to major cities throughout the United States.

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24x7 Support Services
Even if your company has a minimal in-house computer support staff and a limited IT budget, your information system can still feature the same high reliability and responsiveness that in the past needed a substantial internal support group. Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services, offered as an extra-cost option to companies throughout the U.S., combine the experience of world-class Microsoft-qualified and Cisco-qualified network professionals, the latest system management software for 24x7 monitoring and threshold alarms, and cost-effective service packages such as a help desk call center to keep your mission-critical business applications and hardware up and running.

Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include:

  • Proactive, round-the-clock network monitoring
  • Timely, professional response to issues
  • Cost-effective problem escalation when required
  • Online Network Support to cut costs and resolve problems efficiently
  • Help Desk Call Center for expert phone-based assistance
To find out more about Progent's 24x7 outsourcing and co-sourcing options, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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