Business information networks in the state of Illinois now have fast and affordable remote access to Progent's certified network security experts to resolve the toughest security problems. The cost is competitive, billing is by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for complex projects that requires the services of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.
If your Illinois business is based some distance from more populated metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, or Naperville, help from local qualified network security support specialists may be problematic when you have a security disaster. This can result in lost revenue for your company, angry customers, unproductive employees, and distracted management. By utilizing Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Certified security consultant ready to provide expertise whenever you require it to keep your network running and recover your information.
Progent can help you in all your efforts to defend your information system with support that can range from security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical support to assist businesses of all sizes to set up and manage safe networks based on Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems plus mobile users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide you to carry out the urgent first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being penetrated.
If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Overview of Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your security perimeter.
Progent's security consultants are available remotely or on premises to offer a range of urgent or project-based computer security services such as:
Progent's security experts offer world-class support in vital areas of computer protection that include analysis, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security consulting.
System Security Audits
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your current computer security environment through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves you money and offers an objective portrayal of system vulnerability. The knowledge your company gains can form the foundation of a network protection plan that can permit your information system to operate dependably and adapt quickly to future risks.
Automated Security Audits
Progent offers consulting in the application of security testing products such as Microsoft's MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically running a set of automatic system testing scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing utilities including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, plus tools such as Metasploit, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to understand audit reports and respond appropriately.
Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes, install auditing tools, define and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are able to assist you to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Learn more about Progent's automated security analysis.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Businesses
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation packages intended to allow small companies to receive an objective security assessment from an accredited security expert. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to uncover potential risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a system scan from a secure computer within your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured external location. The project is managed by an engineer with top security accreditations and who produces a document that details and analyzes the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where called for.
Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you identify, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Network Intrusion Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any successful network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out additional information on Progent's stealth penetration analysis support services.
Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses extensive field work with major firewalls and VPN products offered by a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned key networking accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft MCSE.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Integration and Debugging
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new deployments. Since Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to design, integrate, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access products represent a complete line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and CCNP qualifications who can help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your company objectives. Find out more details about Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Consulting Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget limits.
Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is designed 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 available from 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 service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the entire malware attack progression including protection, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide advanced support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: 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 information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, retrieve and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Certified Security Consulting
Any business ought to develop a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive processes and response plans. The proactive strategy is a collection of mechanisms intended to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy helps your network security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the system, document the experience, and get the IT network running as quickly as possible.
Progent's expert IT security engineers can to assist your company to run a complete risk assessment and define a computer security strategy to establish security processes and controls to reduce ongoing assaults and dangers.
CISM Certified Security Engineering Services
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the basic capabilities and international standards of skill that IT security managers are required to learn. It gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security management and consulting services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals to help companies with:
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Services
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of a global standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential recognition in the field of data security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a broad range of security areas including:
CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous testing and significant work with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated skill in the more complex demands of IS security architecture bounded by the broader scope of IS security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of architecture security such as.
CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The CISA credential is a prestigious achievement that represents expertise in IS security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified security audit experts can help your IT organization in the areas of:
CRISC Consultants
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk management consultants offer a range of risk identification services including:
GIAC Certified Security Consulting Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital categories of system, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC IS security audit consultants are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:
Talk to a Certified Progent Security Expert
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