Company IT networks inAlabamacan depend on prompt and economical online access to Progent's qualified security consultants to resolve complex security issues. The cost is competitive, charges are by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and support is world class. Progent also offers assistance for complex engagements that requires the expertise of seasoned security consultants with high-level security certifications.
In case yourAlabamasmall business is located outside of larger urban areas such asBirmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, support from nearby certified network security experts could be limited during an urgent situation. This can result in a drop in income for your company, upset customers, unproductive employees, and distracted executives. By contacting Progent, you have access to a Premier security engineer ready to deliver assistance whenever you have to have it to get your network running and recover your information.
Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your efforts to defend your IT environment with support services that ranges from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides affordable support to help small and midsize companies to design and manage secure networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iOS handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.
Progent can also assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.
Progent's certified professionals are accessible remotely or on site to provide a range of emergency or longer-term network security services which include:
Progent's security experts can deliver advanced services in vital fields of computer security including security evaluation, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.
System Security Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the strength of your current computer security environment by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and tested techniques. Progent's skill in administering this service saves your company money and offers an accurate portrayal of system vulnerability. The information your company gains can make up the foundation of a security strategy that will allow your information system to operate safely and react rapidly to future risks.
Automated Security Audits
Progent offers expertise in the use of security auditing packages such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard for affordably performing a variety of programmed system testing checks to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing utilities such as NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities like SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and respond effectively.
Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes, configure auditing software, plan and implement a protected system architecture, and suggest policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to show you how to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information about Progent's network security analysis.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Businesses
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory packages designed to allow small businesses to receive an independent network security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert executes a system scan from an authorized machine inside your company firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a protected external location. The project is managed by a consultant with top security accreditations and who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective remediation where called for.
Stealth Security Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any successful network security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can perform extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out more about Progent's stealth security penetration analysis consulting.
Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in security technology includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent can provide the services of consultants who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Debugging
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. Following Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist you to design, deploy, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See more details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting support.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
Cisco's security and offsite access products provide a complete line of manageable security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who are able to help your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business goals. Find out more information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and choose appropriate products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget restraints.
Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family 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 aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack progression including filtering, detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Network Security Design
Every business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security program that incorporates both proactive procedures and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a set of procedures designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy helps your IT security engineers to evaluate the impact resulting from an attack, fix the system, record the event, and get the IT network restored as soon as feasible.
Progent's certified IS security engineers can to help you to run a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and define a network security strategy to implement security processes and controls to minimize future attacks and dangers.
CISM Qualified Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the core capabilities and international standards of performance that information security professionals are required to master. CISM gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and support services. Progent can provide the services of CISM Certified security consultants to help businesses with:
CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the area of data protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a variety security fields such as:
CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier system architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification through rigorous testing and extensive work with information security design. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most challenging requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the wider field of IS security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture including.
CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA security audit consultants can assist your company with:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk management consultants can provide a range of risk assessment services such as:
GIAC Qualified Network Security Consulting Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to provide support in vital areas of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit specialists are available to assist your business in the areas of:
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