Alaska Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Company computer networks in the state of Alaska can depend on prompt and economical online access to Progent's certified network security professionals to assist with the toughest security problems. The cost is competitive, charges are by the minute, engagement is immediate, and support is world class. Progent also provides help for long-term projects that demand the expertise of senior security engineers with high-level security certifications.

In case your Alaska company is located outside of more populated urban neighborhoods like Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, support from nearby qualified security support specialists could be problematic when there's an urgent situation. This can cause a loss of productivity for your company, upset clients, idle employees, and distracted executives. By contacting Progent, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer who can offer assistance when you need it to get your computer network operating and restore your information.

Progent can assist you in all your efforts to defend your information system with support that ranges from security assessments to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides affordable support to help companies of any size to design and maintain safe IT environments based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers running UNIX or Linux platforms as well as BYOD clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and isolate breached devices and protect clean resources from being compromised.

If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can help you outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that uses the technology of leading information security companies to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.

Progent's certified consultants are accessible remotely or on premises to offer a range of urgent or longer-term network security services such as:

• Run comprehensive security audits
• Recover promptly after attacks
  
• Set up effective firewalls
• Implement secure methods for remote and mobile access
• Deploy effective applications for defense against spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a comprehensive security strategy with proactive network monitoring
  
• Offer outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
• Create a practical data backup and recovery solution based on Microsoft Data Protection Manager backup/restore capability

Progent's consultants can deliver advanced support in key areas of system protection that include security assessment, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security consulting.

System Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the strength of your current computer security systems through comprehensive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's skill in administering this service saves your company consulting fees and offers a detailed portrayal of security holes. The information your IT organization is provided can form the foundation of a security plan that will allow your network to run dependably and react rapidly to future risks.

Automated Network Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides consulting in the application of security auditing software such as MBSA and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a set of programmed network auditing checks to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad experience with additional network auditing products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as Metasploit, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to build security into your company operations, install scanning tools, define and deploy a secure system architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are available to assist you to set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and install VPN. Learn additional information on Progent's automated security analysis.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory scanning packages designed to allow small businesses to receive an impartial security evaluation from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your company firewall to uncover potential risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a network scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to uncover the risk to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected remote location. The process is directed by a consultant who has earned top security credentials and who produces a report that summarizes and analyzes the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where appropriate.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, concurrent, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Penetration Testing Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security experts can run thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly set up and actively checked. Find out additional information about Progent's network penetration testing support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes in-depth field work with leading firewalls and VPN technology offered by a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the services of engineers who have earned important networking accreditations including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Integration and Debugging
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more value than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist you to manage your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's security and remote connection technology offer a comprehensive range of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that fit best with your business goals. Find out more information concerning Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and medium size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate products from multiple suppliers to support your security goals while staying within your budget limits.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art 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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Learn 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 and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting solution without a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT 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 data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent looking for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Any company ought to develop a thoroughly considered security program that includes both preventive processes and reaction planning. The pre-attack strategy is a set of steps that help to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan assists your company's security engineers to assess the damage caused by a security penetration, repair the network, record the event, and get business functions restored as rapidly as possible.

Progent's certified IS security engineers can to assist your company to perform a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and create a company-wide security strategy to implement security policies and controls to reduce future attacks and threats.

CISM Certified Information Security Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the core competencies and worldwide standards of skill that information security managers are expected to master. It gives business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the background and knowledge to deliver effective security management and support services. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:

• Network Security Governance
• Risk Management
• IS Security Implementation Management
• IS Security Management
• Response Planning

CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Services
CISSP denotes expertise with a worldwide standard for network security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of data protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a variety security areas such as:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Management Solutions and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Data Encryption Technology
• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and significant experience with network security architecture. The ISSAP credential indicates proven competence in the most challenging requirements of information security architecture bounded by the broader scope of IS security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

• Access Control Systems and Techniques
• Telecom and Network Protection
• Cryptography Options
• Requirements Analysis and Security Criteria
• Business Continuity Planning and DRP
• Site Security

CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in information system security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit specialists can assist your business with:

• IS Audit Process
• IT Enforcement
• Systems and Architecture Lifecycle
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Data Assets
• Business Continuity Planning

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation consultants can provide a variety of risk assessment services such as:

• Gather data and review documentation to evaluate significant vulnerabilities
• Identify legal, regulatory, and contractual mandates and organizational policies related to your information system to determine their potential impact on your strategic goals
• Point out possible vulnerabilities for your business workflows to help in evaluating your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness program and provide seminars to make sure your stakeholders understand IS risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Connect identified risk vectors to related business procedures to help assign risk ownership
• Determine risk appetite with executive management and major stakeholders to make sure they align

GIAC Qualified Network Security Engineering Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security engineers. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified professional has the skills necessary to provide support in critical areas of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit experts are available to help your company in the areas of:

• Assessing Networks
• Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Application Security
• SIEM solutions

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Engineer
To find out how you can access a Progent security consultant for online or onsite support in Alaska, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Network Support.