Alabama Network Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Small business computer networks in the state ofAlabamacan now get quick and affordable online technical support from Progent's certified security experts to fix the toughest security problems. Rates are affordable, billing is by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for complex engagements that requires the expertise of senior security consultants with top industry certifications.

In case yourAlabamabusiness is outside of larger metropolitan neighborhoods includingBirmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, access to nearby accredited network security experts may be problematic when there's a crisis. This can cause a drop in productivity for your company, upset customers, unproductive workers, and defocused management. By calling Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Premier security consultant who can provide expertise whenever you require it to keep your system operating and recover your information.

Progent can help you in all your initiatives to protect your IT environment with support services ranging from network security audits to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers affordable service to help businesses of all sizes to design and manage protected IT environments based on Windows and Cisco technology and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile clients with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's security engineers are accessible online or on site to provide a range of urgent or project-based IT security services such as:

• Run automated network security audits
• Recuperate promptly after attacks
  
• Install hardware and software firewalls
• Implement safe techniques for offsite and mobile connectivity
• Deploy advanced applications for defense against spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a company-wide security plan with 24x7 security monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Call Center Support
• Help Create an effective data backup and business continuity strategy centered on Data Protection Manager (DPM) backup capability

Progent's consultants provide advanced services in vital facets of system security including security assessment, firewall and VPN expertise, and high-level security planning.

Security Audits
Progent's certified security engineers can assess the vulnerability of your existing network security environment by performing exhaustive remote automated analysis based on advanced utilities and tested procedures. Progent's skill in this service saves your company time and money and offers an accurate portrayal of weaknesses. The information your IT organization gains can make up the basis of a security plan that will allow your information system to run dependably and respond rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the application of security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a set of automatic network testing checks to identify potential security holes. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus tools like Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your business operations, install scanning applications, define and implement a protected system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security professionals are available to assist you to set up a firewall, implement secure remote access to email and business applications, and install VPN. Learn more about Progent's automated security evaluation.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning packages designed to allow small companies to receive an objective network security evaluation from an accredited security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure machine within your company firewall to evaluate the risk to internal threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a protected external location. The project is managed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who produces a document that details and interprets the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if called for.

Network Security Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out more on Progent's stealth penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Expertise
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned key industry certifications including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Integration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new installations. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide enhanced features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help your company to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to plan, configure, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Support Expertise
Cisco's network security and offsite access products represent a complete range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your company goals. Read more information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Products.

Engineering Services for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and select the right products from a variety of suppliers to support your security objectives while staying within your spending restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and protect information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Consulting
Every company should have a thoroughly thought out security program that incorporates both preventive procedures and response planning. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps designed to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive plan assists your company's security personnel to assess the impact caused by an attack, fix the damage, record the experience, and get business functions restored as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security engineers can to help your company to run a full vulnerability assessment and define a computer security strategy to implement security policies and mechanisms to reduce future assaults and dangers.

CISM Certified Security Engineering Assistance
The CISM organization defines the core capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that information security professionals are required to master. It provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to provide efficient security administration and support services. Progent offers the services of CISM Premier security consultants to assist companies with:

• IS Security Processes
• Vulnerability Management
• Information Security Implementation Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Planning

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP denotes mastery of an international standard for data security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification recognition in the field of information protection defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your enterprise in a variety security fields including:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Cryptography Technology
• Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure System Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and significant experience with information security design. The ISSAP certification indicates proven mastery in the most challenging demands of information security architecture within the wider scope of information system security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security including.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Security
• Encryption/Decryption Options
• Requirements Analysis and Security Criteria
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Hardware Security

CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that represents mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA network security audit specialists are available to assist your business with:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• IT Administration
• Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Information Technology Support
• Protecting Data Assets
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified IT risk mitigation engineers can provide a range of risk identification services such as:

• Gather data and review documentation to identify major vulnerabilities
• Inventory statutory, industry, and business mandates and organizational standards associated with your network to assess their possible influence on your business objectives
• Identify possible threats for your business processes to assist in evaluating your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness program and provide training to ensure your organization understand information system risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Match key risk scenarios to related business procedures to help assign risk responsibility
• Determine risk tolerance with your senior management and key stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement

GIAC Certified Security Engineering Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security engineers. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to provide support in important areas of system, data, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information security audit consultants can help your IT organization in the areas of:

• Assessing Security Systems
• Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web-based Services Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Specialist
To find out how you can contact a Progent security engineer for remote or onsite support in Alabama, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Support.