Arkansas Information Assurance, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Small business networks in the state ofArkansascan now get fast and economical online technical support from Progent's qualified security consultants to resolve critical security issues. The cost is competitive, charges are per minute, sign-up is quick, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for complex engagements that demand the services of seasoned security engineers with top industry certifications.

In case yourArkansasbusiness is away from larger urban neighborhoods like Little Rock, Fort Smith, or Fayetteville, help from local accredited security experts is often limited when there's an emergency. This can result in a drop in revenue for your company, upset customers, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent, you have access to a Certified security professional who can deliver help whenever you need it to get your system operating and recover your data.

Progent can help you in your efforts to guard your IT environment with support that ranges from network security audits to developing a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides affordable service to help small and midsize companies to configure and manage safe networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms plus BYOD clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone devices.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to provide web-based management 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 device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified professionals are accessible online or on site to provide a range of urgent or longer-term network security services which include:

• Run thorough network security audits
• Clean up quickly after serious security breaches
  
• Install effective firewalls
• Implement safe techniques for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy advanced applications for automatic protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Help create a company-wide security plan with round-the-clock security monitoring
  
• Offer comprehensive Help Desk Support
• Help Create a practical backup and restore solution centered on Microsoft DPM backup/restore technology

Progent's support professionals can deliver advanced services in vital facets of system protection that include analysis, firewall and VPN expertise, and high-level security planning.

System Security Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the vulnerability of your current network security environment by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via advanced software tools and tested techniques. Progent's experience in administering this service saves you time and money and offers an objective portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your business is provided can be used as the basis of a network protection plan that can allow your network to operate dependably and react rapidly to future threats.

Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the application of security analysis products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for economically performing a variety of automatic system auditing scans to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive experience with other network auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP, eEye, plus tools such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you build protection into your company processes, configure auditing applications, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are available to assist you to set up a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Find out additional information concerning Progent's automated security audits.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an impartial network security evaluation from an accredited security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your company firewall to uncover potential weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a network scan from an authorized computer inside your firewall to evaluate the risk to inside attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a protected remote site. The process is directed by a consultant who has earned high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where appropriate.

Network Intrusion Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is an important component of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively checked. Learn more about Progent's stealth penetration testing consulting.

Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's background in security technology encompasses in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network products offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the services of engineers with key networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more performance than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new installations. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls 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 bring enhanced capabilities such as 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 legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances 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 your company to plan, deploy, optimize, administer and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and VPN Consulting Services
Cisco's security and offsite connection products offer a full range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven specialists with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your organization to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align best with your company goals. Learn additional information about Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Products.

Consulting Services for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and medium size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and VPN security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and select the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your spending limits.

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

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of component failures, software glitches, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of top data security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more 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 create, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Consulting
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security program that incorporates both proactive processes and reaction plans. The pre-attack strategy is a set of mechanisms designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan helps your security engineers to assess the impact resulting from an attack, repair the network, record the experience, and get the IT network running as quickly as possible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to assist your business to perform a full risk evaluation and create a computer security plan to establish security policies and controls to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Accredited Network Security Engineering Assistance
The CISM organization describes the core capabilities and international standards of performance that information security professionals are required to learn. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the background and capability to provide efficient security administration and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the services of CISM Premier security consultants to assist companies with:

• Information Security Strategies
• Risk Management
• IS Security Program Management
• Network Security Management
• Response Planning

CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Assistance
CISSP recognizes expertise with a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted certification accreditation in the field of information security defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a variety security fields such as:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Control Systems and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Operations Security
• Physical Security
• Encryption/Decryption Technology
• Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous examination and significant experience with information security design. The ISSAP certification represents demonstrated skill in the most complex demands of IS security architecture bounded by the wider field of information system security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture including.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Infrastructure Protection
• Cryptography Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Physical Security

CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a recognized achievement that indicates expertise in network security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit engineers are available to assist your IT organization with:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• Information Technology Governance
• Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
• IT Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Information Resources
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support IS controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation specialists offer a variety of risk identification services including:

• Collect data and review documentation to help identify major risk scenarios
• Identify statutory, regulatory, and business requirements and organizational policies associated with your network to determine their possible influence on your business goals
• Point out possible threats for your business workflows to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders understand IS risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Match identified risk vectors to related operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
• Validate risk tolerance with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they align

GIAC Certified Security Consulting Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional has the skills necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit experts can assist your IT organization with:

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

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Specialist
To learn how you can access a certified security engineer for remote or onsite assistance in Arkansas, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Help.