IT Connection Newsletter: Number 6
Progent's Certified Experts Offer
Stealth Penetration Testing Services
Penetration testing is the accepted method for enterprises to assess their exposure to cyber attack. Progent's penetration testing packages combine advanced remote scanning technology plus the expertise of Progent's seasoned security engineers to offer big-company security evaluations at prices companies of any size can afford.
Security breaches continue to make the headlines as attacks compromise the databases of some of the most prestigious organizations. How hard would it be for a hacker to break into your network? Have you paid enough attention to blocking attacks launched from inside your firewall? Are there fast and inexpensive ways to verify your information system is safe?.
Progent's certified security engineers have developed a set of affordable fixed-price service packages to scan your network for security gaps, report the results, and suggest effective, budget-friendly remediation procedures.
What Is Penetration Testing?
Penetration testing is the accepted method for enterprises to assess their exposure to cyber attack. With penetration testing, the "good guys" use the latest hacking tools and techniques to try to "break into" their own networks. For more objective results, penetration testing is typically performed by trusted third parties, and until now it has been prohibitively expensive for smaller businesses. Progent's penetration testing packages combine advanced remote scanning technology plus the expertise of Progent's seasoned security engineers to offer big-company security evaluations at prices small companies can afford.
Progent's Security Penetration Testing Packages
Progent offers External and Internal security scanning packages, each of which can be run at different levels of intensity. All packages include scanning, analysis, reporting, and recommendations. The scanning phase is managed remotely from a secure Progent site, saving time and money without sacrificing thoroughness. For an added fee, Progent offers onsite testing nationwide.
The data collected is analyzed by Progent's security team, which includes engineers certified by standards organizations such as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association and the SANS Institute.
As part of each package, Progent prepares executive and technical reports that summarize the results of the vulnerability scan and suggest mitigation procedures. Each package also includes executive and technical outbriefing sessions with a Progent security engineer. Suggestions for improvements are clear and actionable, so they can be performed by Progent or by any qualified security consultant. If any remedial work is requested to be performed by Progent, the work will be treated as a separate project.
Three Levels of Testing
Progent's security vulnerability scanning packages are available in three levels which vary in intensity from friendly, co-operative testing to aggressive testing that mimics the activities of hackers. Level 1 testing, which is the least expensive, scans for potential security gaps but does not verify or exploit them. Level 2 testing is more aggressive and tries to exploit and expand the vulnerabilities found. Level 3 testing pulls out all the stops and includes Phishing attacks, malicious email, MITM attacks, pillaging compromised devices, social engineering, and testing of controls.
An important option for Progent's External Penetration Testing is web application analysis. Progent's security engineers use advanced, automated tools and manual examination to scan your web application for common vulnerabilities.
For additional information about Progent's security penetration testing packages, see Progent's Stealth Penetration Testing Services.
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SCVMM 2016 Rolling Upgrade Onsite Technical Support
SCVMM 2016 and Windows Server 2016 Remote Support
System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM 2016) is part of Microsoft's System Center 2016 suite of IT infrastructure management products and is intended to offer a centralized solution for configuring and managing virtualized fabric and services across hybrid environments that can incorporate on-premises and hosted datacenters and Microsoft Azure resources. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consulting experts can assist businesses of all sizes with any aspect of building, implementing, and maintaining a SCVMM 2016 ecosystem. Progent can review your virtualization topology, help you upgrade efficiently from legacy releases of VMM, design workflows for creating and installing virtual machines and VM hosts, design high-availability compute and storage clusters, connect your datacenter infrastructure with public clouds, set up virtual switches, develop and debug PowerShell scripts, and help you assess the potential advantages of the latest technologies like Storage Replica and Host Guardian Service. Progent's virtualization experts offer advanced Hyper-V consulting and VMware vSphere support.
Solaris Professional
Solaris Consulting Services
Progent's UNIX family consulting services provide small companies and developers assistance with administering and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-based technology. Progent offers your business access to UNIX experts, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM certification. This wide range of expertise offers you a convenient single consulting firm to help you create and manage a protected and reliable mixed-platform network and communications environment that supports UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating Windows with major variants of UNIX including Apple macOS and OS X, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SuSE Linux, Debian-GNU and Mandrake.
Computer Engineer Redundant Internet
24/7/365 Automatic Fail-over Online Help
Progent's Cisco-authorized network engineers can help you create an economical, fault tolerant Internet connection architecture that can deliver 24x7 Internet connectivity via a broad array of high availability Internet network technologies including high availability BGP, transparent fail-over, and multiple ISPs. Progent can provide Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert consultants to help you apply the most current techniques for 24x7 Internet access to build an economical, fully redundant Internet interface with automatic failover and other capabilities to deliver fault tolerant Internet availability.
Video IP Phones Consulting
Video Conferencing Network Consulting
Progent's Cisco certified networking experts offer advanced support for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) (previously CallManager). Progent can help your organization to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and design UCS server failover systems.
Firewall Security Security Consultancy
VPN Security Protecting
Progent offers small and medium size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and select the right technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.
Service Desk Support Professional
Top Help Desk Services Help and Support
Progent’s Co-managed Help Desk service allows your IT organization to share responsibilities for Help Desk services seamlessly between your IT staff and Progent's pool of seasoned desktop support technicians and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent’s Help Desk Co-management service is an advanced support solution built around the top shared professional services automation platform for handling end-user service requests, ticketing, responsibility, status tracking, and reporting.
Professionals IT asset management
IT documentation management Consultant Services
ProSight IT Asset Management is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save as much as half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you’re planning improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it.
ProSight Infrastructure Management Consultant Services
ProSight Network Infrastructure Management Remote Support Services
Progent’s ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it simple and affordable for smaller organizations to map, track, reconfigure and debug their networking appliances such as switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, endpoints and other devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept updated, copies and displays the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when potential issues are discovered. By automating time-consuming network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off common chores such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, finding devices that require critical updates, or isolating performance issues.
Windows 2000 Help and Support
Microsoft Windows 2000 Computer Engineer
Progent's certified Microsoft Windows 2000 consultants can show you how to enhance the capability of your existing Windows 2000 Servers and can streamline network administration, provide technical support and troubleshooting, and strengthen security. Progent can also help you design, justify, and implement a plan to migrate from Windows Server 2K to Windows Server 2003. Progent is experienced in setting up test programs to reduce the obstacles associated with migrating to Windows Server 2003 by uncovering possible hardware and application compatibility problems.
Technology Consulting Data center Monitoring
SCOM 2012 Fabric Monitoring Consultants
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have over 10 years of experience planning, deploying, enhancing and fixing Microsoft SCOM environments and can provide companies of any size expert online or on-premises consulting services for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can assist you to design a topology for Microsoft SCOM 2012 servers that provides the responsiveness and resilience needed to watch over your IT resources effectively, whether your infrastructure are on-premises, in the cloud, or a mixed environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also assist you to import and set up SCOM 2012 management packs based on leading practices for monitoring network infrastructure as well as Microsoft and third-party applications and services. Also, Progent can deliver fast remote or onsite troubleshooting to assist you to fix critical issues detected by SCOM 2012.
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