Arkansas Computer Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Business IT networks in the state ofArkansascan depend on quick and affordable remote technical support from Progent's certified security engineers to fix the toughest security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for long-term engagements that demand the services of senior security consultants with high-level security certifications.

If yourArkansascompany is situated some distance from more populated urban areas including Little Rock, Fort Smith, or Fayetteville, the availability of local certified network security professionals could be limited during a crisis. This can cause a drop in productivity for your company, angry customers, idle employees, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security engineer who can offer assistance whenever you require it to get your system on line and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in all your efforts to defend your IT environment with support services that ranges from security checks to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent offers affordable support to assist businesses of all sizes to set up and maintain secure networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.

Progent's certified professionals are available online or in person to provide a range of urgent or project-based IT security services such as:

• Perform extensive security evaluations
• Clean up rapidly after virus and worm attacks
  
• Install and troubleshoot firewalls
• Implement safe solutions for offsite and mobile access
• Deploy advanced applications for automatic protection against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a comprehensive security plan with proactive network monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Call Center Services
• Create an effective data backup and restore strategy built around System Center Data Protection Manager backup technology

Progent's security experts offer advanced support in key fields of network protection including auditing, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security consulting.

System Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the vulnerability of your current computer security systems through exhaustive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves your company money and assures a detailed portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your IT organization gains can form the foundation of a security plan that will allow your network to operate safely and adapt rapidly to future threats.

Automated Security Assessment
Progent provides expertise in the application of security testing products including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for economically running a variety of programmed system auditing checks to uncover possible security weaknesses. Progent has extensive experience with additional security auditing tools such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your business processes, install scanning tools, define and deploy a secure network environment, and suggest policies to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more concerning Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory and evaluation packages designed to enable small businesses to get an impartial network security evaluation from an accredited security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer executes a system scan from an authorized machine within your company firewall to determine your exposure to internal threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a protected external site. The project is overseen by a consultant with high-level security credentials and who generates a report that details and interprets the data captured by the scan and proposes practical improvements where appropriate.

Network Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's internal IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out more on Progent's network penetration testing support services.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Support
Progent's background in security solutions includes in-depth field work with major firewalls and VPN products from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent offers the support of engineers with important networking certifications including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The new ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially 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 entire line of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help your company to manage your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to design, deploy, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and VPN Support Services
Cisco's network security and remote access products offer a comprehensive range of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to assist your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align best with your business objectives. Find out additional information about Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your spending restraints.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series 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. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Find out 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 service that uses the infrastructure of top data security companies to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most 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 device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see 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 business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Consulting
Any company should develop a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and response plans. The pre-attack plan is a collection of mechanisms that help to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your company's network security engineers to assess the damage caused by an attack, fix the damage, document the event, and get the IT network restored as quickly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security consultants are available to help you to run a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and define a network security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and threats.

CISM Accredited Information Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core capabilities and international standards of performance that IT security managers are required to master. It provides business management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security management and consulting services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security consultants to assist businesses with:

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

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
CISSP certification recognizes expertise with a worldwide standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the area of data security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a variety security fields including:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Control Solutions and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Encryption/Decryption Technology
• Telecom, LAN and Internet Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture professionals are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification through rigorous testing and extensive work with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates demonstrated skill in the more challenging requirements of information system security architecture bounded by the broader scope of information system security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

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

CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit consultants are available to assist your company in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Services
• Information Technology Administration
• Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
• IT Service Delivery
• Protecting Information Resources
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk management specialists can provide a variety of risk evaluation services including:

• Gather data and review documentation to evaluate significant risk scenarios
• Inventory statutory, industry, and business requirements and organizational standards related to your network to determine their possible influence on your strategic goals
• Identify possible threats for your business processes to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness program and provide training to make sure your organization understand information system risk so they can contribute to your risk control program
• Match key risk scenarios to related operational processes to help determine risk responsibility
• Validate risk appetite with your senior management and key stakeholders to ensure they match

GIAC Accredited Information System Security Engineering Services
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's mission is to make sure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to deliver services in key areas of system, information, and software security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified network security audit specialists are available to assist your IT organization in the areas of:

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

Talk to a Certified Progent Security Engineer
To find out how you can get in touch with a certified security engineer for remote or onsite assistance in Arkansas, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Computer Support.