Alaska Information Assurance, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Small business information networks in the state ofAlaskanow have fast and economical remote access to Progent's qualified network security engineers to assist with critical security issues. The cost is competitive, charges are by the minute, sign-up is quick, and service is world class. Progent also provides assistance for complex projects that demand the knowledge of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.

In case yourAlaskabusiness is away from more populated metropolitan areas such asAnchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, access to local certified security consultants may be limited when there's an urgent situation. This can cause a drop in revenue for your business, angry clients, idle employees, and distracted management. By contacting Progent's online services, you have access to a Certified security professional ready to deliver help when you need it to get your information system operating and salvage your information.

Progent can assist you in all your initiatives to protect your information system with support services ranging from security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical service to help businesses of all sizes to configure and maintain secure networks powered by Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone devices.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top information security companies to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.

Progent's security consultants are available online or in person to offer a variety of urgent or longer-term network security services including:

• Perform comprehensive network security audits
• Recuperate rapidly after serious security breaches
  
• Install effective firewalls
• Configure safe methods for remote and mobile access
• Install advanced solutions for defense against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Develop a company-wide security plan with proactive network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Help Create an effective data backup and business continuity solution built around Microsoft Data Protection Manager backup/restore technology

Progent's security experts provide advanced support in key areas of system protection including auditing, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security consulting.

Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the strength of your current network security implementation through exhaustive remote automated testing via advanced utilities and proven procedures. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves your company money and offers an objective portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your company is provided can make up the foundation of a network protection plan that can allow your network to run safely and adapt quickly to future risks.

Automated Network Security Evaluation
Progent provides consulting in the use of security analysis products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard for affordably performing a variety of automatic system auditing checks to uncover possible security vulnerabilities. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional security analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand testing reports and react appropriately.

Progent can show you how to build security into your business processes, configure scanning applications, define and implement a protected network environment, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to help you set up a firewall, design secure remote access to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information on Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory scanning packages intended to enable small businesses to receive an independent security assessment from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a comprehensive test of your network from outside your firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a network scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to determine the risk to internal threats. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected external site. The project is managed by an engineer with top security accreditations and who generates a report that details and interprets the data collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective remediation where called for.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important component of any comprehensive network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly configured and consistently checked. Find out more about Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses extensive field work with leading firewalls and VPN products from a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent can provide the services of consultants with key networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Integration and Troubleshooting
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family 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 including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to plan, deploy, tune, administer and debug firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional information about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and offsite connection products represent a comprehensive range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced engineers with Cisco CCIE and CCNP certifications who can help your company to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your company objectives. Learn additional details concerning Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Services for Other Firewall and VPN Products
Progent offers small and medium size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up 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 like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical information. Read 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 filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

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 critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, retrieve and protect data about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses 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 trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Design
Any business ought to have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive processes and response plans. The pre-attack strategy is a set of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive plan helps your security engineers to assess the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the network, document the experience, and get the IT network restored as rapidly as possible.

Progent's expert IT security engineers are available to help your business to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and define a computer security plan to establish security policies and mechanisms to mitigate future assaults and threats.

CISM Qualified Network Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core competencies and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. CISM provides executive management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM credential have the background and knowledge to deliver efficient security administration and support services. Progent can provide the support of CISM Certified security professionals to assist companies with:

• IS Security Governance
• Risk Analysis
• IS Security Program Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Management

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Support
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of a global standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded certification accreditation in the field of data security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your enterprise in a broad range of security fields including:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Control Solutions and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Technology
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough testing and significant experience with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most complex demands of IS security architecture within the broader field of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

• Access Management Systems and Techniques
• Telecommunications and System Infrastructure Security
• Data Encryption Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Standards
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Hardware Security

CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit engineers can assist your business with:

• IS Audit Services
• Information Technology Administration
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Protecting Information Resources
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and execute 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 goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation engineers offer a range of risk identification services including:

• Collect information and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
• Identify statutory, regulatory, and business requirements and organizational policies associated with your network to assess their possible impact on your business objectives
• Point out possible vulnerabilities for your business workflows to help in evaluating your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to ensure your organization appreciate IS risk so they can assist with your risk control process
• Match identified risk vectors to your associated business procedures to help determine risk ownership
• Validate risk appetite with your senior management and key stakeholders to make sure they match

GIAC Certified Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of IT security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge necessary to provide services in important categories of network, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC information security audit experts can help your company with:

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

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Expert
To see how to access a Progent security consultant for remote or on-premises assistance in Alaska, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Support.