Alaska Information Assurance, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Small business computer networks in Alaska can depend on quick and economical online help from Progent's certified network security professionals to resolve urgent security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is by the minute, engagement is fast, and service is world class. Progent also provides help for complex projects that demand the services of seasoned security engineers with top security certifications.

In case your Alaska business is located some distance from more populated urban areas including Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, contact with nearby certified security professionals is often limited when there's a crisis. This can cause lost income for your business, angry clients, idle employees, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to provide expertise whenever you require it to get your system running and salvage your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your initiatives to defend your IT environment with support that can range from security checks to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers affordable service to help businesses of all sizes to set up and maintain secure networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms plus mobile clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's IT Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified engineers are accessible online or on site to offer a variety of emergency or project-based computer security services including:

• Perform comprehensive network security evaluations
• Clean up quickly after serious security breaches
  
• Set up effective firewalls
• Implement safe methods for remote and mobile access
• Install effective solutions for protection against spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a company-wide security strategy with proactive network monitoring
  
• Provide comprehensive Call Center Services
• Help Create a practical backup and business continuity strategy based on Microsoft DPM backup/restore technology

Progent's security experts offer world-class support in vital fields of computer protection including auditing, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security consulting.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the vulnerability of your current computer security environment through exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves your company money and offers an objective picture of gaps. The information your business is provided can make up the foundation of a security strategy that will allow your information system to operate dependably and adapt rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Audits
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis software such as MBSA and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably running a variety of automatic network testing scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with other network analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP, eEye, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to build security into your business processes, configure scanning software, define and deploy a protected network environment, and recommend policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to show you how to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Learn additional information about Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an independent network security assessment from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, an engineer executes a network scan from a secure computer within your firewall to assess your exposure to inside threats. The two security inventory services are configured and executed from a protected external site. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the data collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective remediation if called for.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network so you can expose, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Network Security Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Learn more about Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent's expertise in security technology includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology from multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of consultants with important industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The new ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more performance than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your company to plan, integrate, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and remote access technology represent a full range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who are able to assist your organization to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company objectives. Find out more details about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security and VPN Products.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent offers small and medium size businesses professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate products from multiple suppliers to support your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific requirements and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of vital data, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, 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 to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs 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 applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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, retrieve and protect data about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time thrown away looking 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 such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Consulting
Any company should develop a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both proactive processes and response planning. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of mechanisms that help to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your security engineers to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, repair the network, document the event, and get business functions restored as rapidly as possible.

Progent's certified IT security consultants are available to help your company to run a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and define a network security plan to establish security processes and mechanisms to reduce ongoing assaults and threats.

CISM Certified Security Support Assistance
The CISM organization defines the basic competencies and international standards of performance that information security managers are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to deliver effective security administration and consulting services. Progent offers the services of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:

• Information Security Governance
• Vulnerability Management
• IS Security Implementation Management
• Network Security Administration
• Response Management

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP denotes expertise with 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 offers the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a broad range of security fields such as:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Control Solutions and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Mechanisms
• Telecom, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents demonstrated mastery in the most challenging requirements of IS security architecture bounded by the wider scope of information system security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security including.

• Access Management Systems and Techniques
• Telecom and Network Protection
• Encryption/Decryption Solutions
• Requirements Evaluation and Security Standards
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Hardware Security

CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test given by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified IS security audit experts are available to assist your business with:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• IT Enforcement
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Information Technology Support
• Safeguarding Information Resources
• Business Continuity Planning

CRISC Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk management consultants offer a variety of risk identification services including:

• Collect information and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
• Identify legal, regulatory, and business requirements and company standards related to your network to determine their possible influence on your strategic objectives
• Point out potential vulnerabilities for your operational workflows to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and provide training to ensure your stakeholders understand IS risk so they can assist with your risk control process
• Connect identified risk scenarios to related business processes to help assign risk ownership
• Determine risk tolerance with executive management and major stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement

GIAC Certified Security Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills appropriate to deliver 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 NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified information security audit engineers are available to help your company with:

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

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Engineer
To see how to get in touch with a certified Progent security engineer for online or on-premises expertise in Alaska, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Support.