Arkansas Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Small business information networks in the state ofArkansasnow have fast and economical online help from Progent's accredited security consultants to help with critical security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is world class. Progent also offers assistance for long-term engagements that requires the services of seasoned security engineers with high-level security certifications.

In case yourArkansasoffice is located away from major urban areas such as Little Rock, Fort Smith, or Fayetteville, help from local certified network security experts could be limited when you have an urgent situation. This could mean a loss of income for your business, angry customers, idle employees, and distracted executives. By contacting Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Premier security engineer who can provide expertise whenever you require it to get your system on line and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in your initiatives to protect your IT environment with support services ranging from network security checks to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical service to help businesses of all sizes to set up and maintain safe IT environments based on Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux platforms as well as mobile users with Apple handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified professionals are available online or on site to provide a range of emergency or longer-term IT security services such as:

• Perform comprehensive network security audits
• Recuperate quickly after serious security breaches
  
• Configure firewalls from multiple vendors
• Implement safe methods for offsite and mobile connectivity
• Deploy effective solutions for defense against spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a comprehensive security plan with round-the-clock network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
• Create a practical network backup and recovery strategy based on Data Protection Manager automated backup technology

Progent's support professionals can deliver world-class services in vital fields of system security that include analysis, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security planning.

System Assessment
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the strength of your existing computer security environment through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on advanced software tools and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves your company consulting fees and offers a detailed portrayal of system vulnerability. The knowledge your IT organization gains can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will allow your information system to run dependably and adapt rapidly to future threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides expertise in the use of security testing utilities including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for affordably running a variety of automatic system auditing scans to uncover possible security gaps. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities like SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand testing reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company operations, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a secure system architecture, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are able to show you how to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and install VPN. Find out more concerning Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory packages intended to allow small companies to receive an impartial network security evaluation from an accredited security expert. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to determine your exposure to internal attacks. Both security inventory packages are set up and executed from a secured remote site. The project is managed by an engineer with high-level security credentials and who produces a document that details and analyzes the information collected by the scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Stealth Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.

Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's background in security solutions includes in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN products offered by multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent can provide the services of consultants who have earned important industry 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 500 Security Appliances Integration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can help your company to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to 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 assist your business to design, deploy, optimize, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and VPN Consulting Services
Cisco's security and remote access products offer a complete line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features switches, 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 Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your company objectives. Find out more information about Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and choose the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
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 and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware 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 provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Consulting
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security program that includes both pre-attack processes and response plans. The pre-attack plan is a collection of mechanisms intended to minimize vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy assists your company's network security engineers to evaluate the damage caused by an attack, fix the damage, document the experience, and get the IT network running as quickly as feasible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to help your business to run a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and define a network security strategy to establish security processes and controls to minimize future attacks and threats.

CISM Accredited Network Security Support Assistance
The CISM organization defines the core capabilities and global standards of skill that information security managers are expected to learn. It gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and support services. Progent can provide the support of CISM Premier security consultants to help companies with:

• IS Security Governance
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Network Security Program Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Planning

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Services
CISSP denotes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted certification recognition in the area of information protection defined by ISO 17024. Progent offers access to of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a broad range of security fields such as:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Control Systems and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Technology
• Telecom, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified information system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and significant work with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated skill in the more complex requirements of IS security architecture within the wider field of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security such as.

• Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Infrastructure Security
• Data Encryption Options
• Requirements Analysis and Security Criteria
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Physical Security

CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Consulting Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit experts can help your business in the areas of:

• IS Audit Process
• IT Enforcement
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Information Assets
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to design, deploy, and support IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation specialists can provide a range of risk assessment services including:

• Collect information and study documentation to identify significant risk scenarios
• Identify legal, industry, and business mandates and company policies related to your network to determine their possible impact on your strategic objectives
• Identify potential vulnerabilities for your operational processes to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness program and provide training to ensure your organization understand IS risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
• Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated business processes to help determine risk responsibility
• Validate risk appetite with executive leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they align

GIAC Certified Information System 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 an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in critical areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit engineers are available to assist your business in the areas of:

• Assessing Networks
• Security Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Application Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Security Specialist
To find out how you can access a Progent security engineer for remote or onsite support in Arkansas, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Support.