Arkansas Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Company IT networks inArkansascan depend on prompt and economical remote access to Progent's qualified network security consultants to help with critical security issues. Rates are reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is quick, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for long-term engagements that requires the services of seasoned security consultants with top security certifications.

In case yourArkansascompany is situated some distance from larger urban areas like Little Rock, Fort Smith, or Fayetteville, help from local qualified security experts is often limited when you have a crisis. This can result in lost productivity for your company, angry customers, idle employees, and defocused management. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security consultant who can provide expertise when you require it to keep your network on line and recover your data.

Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your initiatives to defend your information system with support that can range from security assessments to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent offers economical support to help companies of any size to set up and maintain safe networks powered by Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified engineers are available online or on premises to provide a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services including:

• Run thorough network security audits
• Recover quickly after serious security breaches
  
• Configure hardware and software firewalls
• Implement safe methods for remote and mobile connectivity
• Deploy advanced software for automatic protection against spam and directory harvest attacks
  
• Help create a company-wide security strategy with round-the-clock network monitoring
  
• Offer comprehensive Help Desk Services
• Create a practical data backup and business continuity solution built around Microsoft DPM backup capability

Progent's engineers provide advanced services in key fields of system protection that include analysis, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

Security Evaluation
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing computer protection systems through exhaustive remote automated testing based on sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's skill in this service saves your company money and assures an objective portrayal of gaps. The information your IT organization gains can make up the basis of a network protection plan that can allow your information system to operate safely and react quickly to new threats.

Automated Vulnerability Audits
Progent offers expertise in the application of security analysis utilities such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard for affordably running a set of programmed network testing checks to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad knowledge of other network analysis utilities such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities such as Metasploit, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes, configure scanning applications, define and deploy a protected system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the security of your network. Progent's security professionals are ready to help you set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information concerning Progent's automated security audits.

Security Inventory Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory and evaluation packages intended to enable small businesses to get an impartial network security assessment from an accredited security expert. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a network scan from a secure computer within your company firewall to assess the risk to inside attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and executed from a secured external site. The process is managed by a consultant with high-level security credentials and who produces a report that summarizes and analyzes the data collected by the security scan and suggests practical remediation if appropriate.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can perform thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently checked. Find out more on Progent's network security penetration testing support services.

Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses extensive field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology from multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the services of consultants with key industry accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new features such as 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 maintain your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, configure, tune, administer and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Security and VPN Engineering Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology provide a complete line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your business goals. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Appliances.

Consulting Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent offers small and medium size businesses expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight series of network management outsourcing 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 offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and verify a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical data. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, see 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 organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, 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 infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require the instant you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Design
Any business should develop a carefully thought out security program that includes both pre-attack procedures and response planning. The pre-attack strategy is a collection of steps that help to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack plan assists your company's IT security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, fix the damage, record the event, and get business functions running as soon as feasible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to assist you to perform a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and define a network security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and threats.

CISM Accredited Security Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the core capabilities and global standards of performance that information security professionals are required to learn. It gives business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM certification possess the experience and capability to provide effective security management and support consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

• IS Security Processes
• Risk Analysis
• IS Security Program Management
• Information Security Management
• Response Planning

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Support
CISSP certification denotes expertise with a global standard for data security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a broad range of security areas including:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Models
• Access Control Systems and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Data Encryption Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and significant experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven competence in the most complex requirements of IS security architecture bounded by the broader field of information security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all phases of secure network architecture such as.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Protection
• Data Encryption Options
• Requirements Evaluation and Security Criteria
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Site Security

CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that signifies mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified IS security audit experts can assist your company in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• IT Governance
• Systems and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
• IT Support
• Protecting Information Assets
• Business Continuity Preparedness

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation specialists offer a range of risk evaluation services including:

• Gather data and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
• Inventory statutory, industry, and business mandates and organizational standards related to your network to determine their potential impact on your strategic objectives
• Point out possible threats for your operational workflows to assist in evaluating your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders understand information system risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Match identified risk scenarios to related business procedures to help determine risk ownership
• Determine risk tolerance with executive management and key stakeholders to make sure they match

GIAC Certified Network Security Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited security consultant has the skills appropriate to provide services in critical categories of system, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions around the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified information security audit engineers are available to help your business with:

• Assessing IT Infrastructure
• Security Incident Response
• Intrusion Detection
• Web-based Application Security
• SIEM solutions

Get in Touch with a Security Expert
To find out how to contact a certified Progent security engineer for online or onsite expertise in Arkansas, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Remote Network Help.