Alabama Network Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Business networks in the state ofAlabamanow have prompt and economical remote access to Progent's qualified network security experts to assist with the toughest security problems. The cost is reasonable, charges are per minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for long-term projects that requires the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top security certifications.

If yourAlabamabusiness is some distance from major urban neighborhoods such asBirmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, contact with nearby accredited network security experts is often limited when there's an urgent situation. This could mean a loss of income for your business, upset customers, idle employees, and defocused management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Certified security consultant ready to provide expertise whenever you require it to keep your computer network operating and recover your information.

Progent can help you in all your efforts to guard your network with services that ranges from security assessments to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical support to help small and midsize companies to design and manage secure networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include servers and desktops running UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile clients with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone devices.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified engineers are available online or on site to offer a variety of emergency or longer-term computer security services which include:

• Perform comprehensive network security evaluations
• Clean up rapidly after attacks
  
• Configure firewalls from multiple vendors
• Implement secure solutions for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy advanced utilities for defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a company-wide security strategy with round-the-clock security monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Services
• Help Develop an effective network backup and recovery solution centered on Data Protection Manager backup technology

Progent's security experts provide world-class support in key fields of network security including auditing, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

System Security Audits
Progent's certified security engineers can assess the vulnerability of your existing computer security systems by performing comprehensive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and proven procedures. Progent's experience in administering this service saves you consulting fees and offers a detailed portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the basis of a security plan that will allow your network to run dependably and adapt rapidly to new threats.

Automated Security Assessment
Progent offers expertise in the use of security testing packages including MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a set of programmed network auditing scans to identify possible security weaknesses. Progent has extensive knowledge of other security analysis utilities including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus tools like Metasploit, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes, configure scanning software, plan and deploy a protected system architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory scanning packages intended to enable small businesses to get an objective security assessment from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover possible weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a system scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to determine vulnerabilities to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is directed by an engineer who has earned high-level security accreditations and who produces a report that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and proposes practical remediation if appropriate.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any comprehensive network security plan. Progent's security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and consistently monitored. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's background in network security technology includes in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the services of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to plan, integrate, tune, administer and debug firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's security and remote access products provide a complete range of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align best with your business objectives. Read additional information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security and VPN Appliances.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical files, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting provider. Learn more details 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 create, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing 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 gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Consulting
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both proactive procedures and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a collection of mechanisms that help to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy assists your IT security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a security penetration, fix the system, document the event, and get the IT network running as soon as possible.

Progent's certified IS security engineers can to help your company to perform a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and create a network security plan to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize future attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Information Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the core competencies and international standards of performance that IT security managers are required to master. It gives business management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and support services. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to assist companies with:

• Information Security Governance
• Risk Analysis
• IS Security Program Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Planning

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP certification recognizes expertise with a global standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information protection defined by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a broad range of security fields such as:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Models
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Data Encryption Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with information security design. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most in-depth demands of information security architecture within the broader scope of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.

• Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Infrastructure Protection
• Encryption/Decryption Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
• BCP and DRP
• Hardware Security

CISA Qualified Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a prestigious achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit experts can assist your IT organization in the areas of:

• IS Audit Services
• Information Technology Governance
• Systems and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
• Information Technology Support
• Protecting Information Resources
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and support IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified IT risk management specialists can provide a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Gather information and study documentation to help identify significant vulnerabilities
• Inventory legal, industry, and business mandates and organizational policies associated with your network to assess their potential impact on your strategic goals
• Point out possible threats for your business processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Develop a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to ensure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can contribute to your risk control program
• Match identified risk scenarios to related operational procedures to help determine risk responsibility
• Determine risk appetite with executive management and key stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement

GIAC Qualified IS Security Engineering Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in important categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit specialists can assist your business in the areas of:

• Auditing Networks
• Incident Response
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Application Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Engineer
To find out how you can get in touch with a certified Progent security engineer for online or onsite expertise in Alabama, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Help.