Alaska Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Business IT networks in the state ofAlaskacan depend on prompt and affordable online help from Progent's certified security consultants to resolve complex security issues. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is fast, and support is world class. Progent also provides help for complex engagements that demand the knowledge of senior security engineers with top security certifications.

In case yourAlaskasmall business is based some distance from more populated urban neighborhoods such asAnchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, access to local qualified network security experts is often problematic when there's an emergency. This can cause a drop in productivity for your company, angry clients, unproductive employees, and defocused executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security engineer ready to provide assistance whenever you need it to get your system on line and restore your information.

Progent can assist you at any level in your initiatives to defend your network with support ranging from security checks to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent offers affordable service to help small and midsize companies to design and maintain secure networks based on Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX or Linux platforms plus BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that uses the technology of top information security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified experts are accessible remotely or in person to provide a variety of urgent or longer-term computer security services including:

• Run automated network security audits
• Clean up rapidly after virus and worm attacks
  
• Configure effective firewalls
• Configure secure techniques for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy effective utilities for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a comprehensive security plan with round-the-clock security monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
• Create an effective network backup and restore solution centered on Microsoft DPM automated backup capability

Progent's consultants can deliver world-class services in key areas of system protection including analysis, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security consulting.

System Assessment
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your existing computer security environment through comprehensive remote automated testing based on sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves you money and offers an accurate picture of system vulnerability. The information your business gains can be used as the foundation of a security strategy that can permit your network to operate safely and respond rapidly to new risks.

Automated Vulnerability Analysis
Progent provides consulting in the use of security auditing software including MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically running a set of automatic system auditing scans to uncover potential security holes. Progent has extensive knowledge of other network auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you build security into your company processes, configure auditing applications, plan and deploy a protected network environment, and suggest procedures to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Find out additional information about Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory bundles intended to enable small businesses to receive an independent network security assessment from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to uncover potential risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a network scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to uncover the risk to inside threats. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a protected external site. The project is managed by a consultant with top security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and suggests practical improvements if appropriate.

Stealth Security Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly set up and actively monitored. Find out additional information about Progent's stealth security penetration testing support services.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent's background in security technology encompasses extensive field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent offers the support of engineers with key networking accreditations including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Debugging
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Following Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist your company to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist you to plan, deploy, tune, manage and debug firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See more information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's security and remote access technology represent a complete range of manageable security products to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco CCIE and CCNP certifications who can help your organization to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business goals. Learn additional information about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Appliances.

Support Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and medium size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security plan and select the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to support your security objectives while staying 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 intended 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. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Read more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

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 infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard 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 VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out 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 makes it easy to create, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent searching for vital 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 recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Consulting
Any company ought to develop a carefully thought out security program that incorporates both proactive procedures and response plans. The proactive plan is a set of steps that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan assists your security personnel to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, fix the damage, document the event, and get business functions operational as rapidly as possible.

Progent's certified IT security consultants are available to assist you to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and create a company-wide security plan to establish security processes and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Network Security Consulting Services
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the core competencies and global standards of skill that IT security professionals are expected to master. CISM provides executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and support services. Progent can provide the services of CISM Premier security professionals to assist companies with:

• Information Security Processes
• Risk Management
• Network Security Implementation Management
• Information Security Administration
• Response Planning

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Support
CISSP certification denotes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of data security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a broad range of security fields including:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Encryption/Decryption Technology
• Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture professionals are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience with information security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated skill in the most challenging demands of IS security architecture bounded by the broader field of IS security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your business with all aspects of architecture security such as.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Protection
• Cryptography Solutions
• Requirements Analysis and Security Guidelines
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and DRP
• Hardware Security

CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA accreditation is a recognized achievement that represents expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation has candidates undergo a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified information security audit experts are available to assist your IT organization in the areas of:

• IS Audit Services
• Information Technology Enforcement
• Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
• IT Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Data Resources
• Business Continuity Planning

CRISC Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk management engineers can provide a range of risk evaluation services including:

• Collect information and review documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
• Identify statutory, regulatory, and business requirements and company policies related to your network to assess their potential impact on your business objectives
• Identify potential vulnerabilities for your operational processes to assist in analyzing your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to ensure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can assist with your risk control process
• Connect key risk scenarios to your associated operational processes to help determine risk ownership
• Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they align

GIAC Certified IS Security Engineering Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of network security engineers. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in critical categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC information security audit experts can help your company in the areas of:

• Auditing Security Systems
• Security Incident Handling
• Intrusion Detection
• Web-based Application Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Engineer
To find out how you can get in touch with a certified security consultant for online or onsite expertise in Alaska, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Network Support.