Alaska Network Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Company IT networks in the state ofAlaskacan have prompt and affordable remote access to Progent's accredited security support specialists to help with the toughest security issues. Rates are reasonable, billing is per minute, sign-up is fast, and service is world class. Progent also provides help for complex engagements that requires the services of seasoned security engineers with high-level security credentials.

In case yourAlaskanetwork is based some distance from larger metropolitan areas includingAnchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, support from nearby accredited security professionals is often problematic during an urgent situation. This can result in lost income for your company, upset customers, idle employees, and defocused management. By calling Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer who can deliver help when you require it to get your information system running and restore your information.

Progent can help you at any level in your initiatives to protect your IT environment with support services that can range from network security audits to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to help businesses of all sizes to configure and manage secure IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX or Linux platforms as well as BYOD clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that uses the technology of top data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified experts are accessible online or on premises to provide a variety of urgent or longer-term network security services including:

• Run automated security audits
• Clean up quickly after attacks
  
• Configure firewalls from multiple vendors
• Configure secure solutions for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy effective applications for defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Help create a company-wide security strategy with round-the-clock security monitoring
  
• Offer outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
• Help Create a practical data backup and recovery solution built around Microsoft DPM backup capability

Progent's consultants offer advanced services in vital fields of system protection that include auditing, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security consulting.

System Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can assess the strength of your existing network protection environment through exhaustive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and proven procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves you money and assures a detailed portrayal of weaknesses. The information your business gains can make up the basis of a network protection plan that can allow your network to operate dependably and adapt quickly to future threats.

Automated Security Analysis
Progent offers consulting in the application of security analysis utilities including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of automatic system testing scans to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad experience with additional network auditing tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus utilities like Metasploit, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand testing reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you build protection into your company processes, install scanning software, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are available to help you configure a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information concerning Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory scanning bundles intended to allow small businesses to get a professional security evaluation from a qualified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to determine the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are configured and executed from a secured remote location. The process is directed by a consultant who has earned high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that details and interprets the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Network Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is a key part of any successful network security strategy. Progent�s security experts can run extensive intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively checked. Find out additional information concerning Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in security solutions includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology offered by a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your company to design, integrate, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology provide a full line of manageable security products to help protect your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced engineers with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP certifications who are able to help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align best with your company goals. Find out more information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Appliances.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and medium size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a detailed security plan and select appropriate products from multiple vendors to support your security goals while staying within your budget limits.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as 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 specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find 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 50% of time wasted looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you�re making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Consulting
Any business should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive procedures and reaction planning. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps intended to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan assists your company's security engineers to evaluate the impact resulting from an attack, fix the system, document the experience, and get the IT network running as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified IS security consultants can to help your business to perform a full risk assessment and define a network security strategy to implement security processes and controls to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Qualified Information Security Engineering Expertise
The CISM organization defines the core capabilities and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to master. It provides business management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and support services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security consultants to assist businesses with:

• Information Security Processes
• Risk Analysis
• Information Security Implementation Management
• IS Security Management
• Response Management

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Services
The CISSP credential denotes expertise with a worldwide standard for network security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the field of information security stipulated by ISO 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 broad range of security areas including:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Control Solutions and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Technology
• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure System Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification through thorough examination and significant work with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven mastery in the more in-depth demands of information system security architecture within the wider field of information security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture including.

• Access Management Systems and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Protection
• Data Encryption Solutions
• Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Hardware Security

CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA network security audit specialists can assist your business in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• IT Governance
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Protecting Information Resources
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CRISC Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation specialists offer a variety of risk assessment services such as:

• Collect data and review documentation to identify major vulnerabilities
• Identify statutory, regulatory, and business mandates and organizational policies related to your information system to assess their potential influence on your strategic objectives
• Identify potential vulnerabilities for your operational workflows to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness initiative and provide seminars to ensure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
• Match key risk vectors to related operational processes to help assign risk responsibility
• Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they match

GIAC Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in key categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit engineers are available to assist your IT organization in the areas of:

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

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Expert
To learn how to access a security consultant for remote or on-premises help in Alaska, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Help.