Small business information networks in Alaska can have quick and economical online technical support from Progent's qualified security consultants to fix critical security issues. The cost is competitive, billing is per minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for complex engagements that demand the services of seasoned security consultants with top industry credentials.
If your Alaska business is located some distance from major metropolitan areas like Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, the availability of local qualified security professionals could be limited during an urgent situation. This can cause a loss of income for your company, upset clients, unproductive employees, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer who can deliver help whenever you require it to keep your network running and salvage your data.
Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to defend your IT environment with services ranging from security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to assist small and midsize companies to configure and manage protected networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that may include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms as well as BYOD users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can assist you to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect clean resources from being compromised.
If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Overview of Progent's IT Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's security consultants are accessible remotely or on site to offer a variety of emergency or longer-term computer security services such as:
Progent's engineers can deliver world-class support in key facets of network security that include security evaluation, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security consulting.
Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your current computer protection environment through exhaustive remote automated testing based on sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's experience in administering this service saves you time and money and assures an accurate portrayal of weaknesses. The information your business is provided can form the foundation of a network protection plan that will allow your information system to run safely and respond quickly to future threats.
Automated Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent offers consulting in the use of security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably running a variety of programmed system testing scans to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional security auditing utilities including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus tools like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately.
Progent can help you build security into your company processes, install scanning applications, define and deploy a secure system environment, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security engineers are available to show you how to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Learn additional information about Progent's network security analysis.
Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory scanning packages designed to allow small businesses to get a professional security assessment from an accredited security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your company firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a system scan from an authorized machine inside your firewall to uncover the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are configured and run from a protected external site. The project is directed by a consultant with top security credentials and who generates a document that details and interprets the information collected by the scan and suggests practical improvements where appropriate.
Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.
Stealth Security Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any serious network security plan. Progent's security experts can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are correctly set up and consistently monitored. Learn additional information about Progent's network penetration testing consulting.
Firewalls and VPN Expertise
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses in-depth field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology from a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent offers the services of engineers with important industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The new ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time 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 to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist you to plan, deploy, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.
Cisco Network Security and VPN Consulting Services
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology offer a complete line of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who are able to help your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your business objectives. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Appliances.
Consulting Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and medium size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and choose appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget restraints.
Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Read more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's
ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious 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 images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class 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 high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting solution without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details 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 makes it easy to capture, update, find and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Certified Security Planning
Every business ought to develop a carefully thought out security program that incorporates both pre-attack processes and response plans. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that help to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy helps your security engineers to assess the impact resulting from a security penetration, repair the network, document the event, and get the IT network running as rapidly as feasible.
Progent's certified IT security engineers are available to assist you to perform a complete vulnerability assessment and create a computer security strategy to establish security policies and controls to minimize ongoing attacks and dangers.
CISM Qualified System Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the basic capabilities and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to learn. It gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification have the experience and capability to provide effective security management and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM Premier security consultants to assist companies with:
CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP recognizes expertise with an international standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification accreditation in the field of information protection defined by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security consultants 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:
CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture professionals are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status through rigorous examination and significant experience with network security architecture. The ISSAP credential indicates proven mastery in the more complex requirements of information security architecture bounded by the broader scope of IS security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all phases of architecture security such as.
CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that indicates expertise in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified network security audit experts are available to help your IT organization with:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk management experts offer a variety of risk identification services such as:
GIAC Accredited Security Engineering Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to validate the skill of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to assure that an accredited professional has the knowledge needed to provide support in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit experts are available to help your business in the areas of:
Get in Touch with a Progent Security Specialist
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