Business computer networks in the state of Illinois can have fast and economical remote access to Progent's qualified network security experts to help with the toughest security issues. The cost is affordable, charges are by the minute, sign-up is fast, and support is unbeatable. Progent also offers help for long-term projects that demand the services of senior security engineers with high-level security certifications.
In case your Illinois small business is based outside of more populated urban areas such as Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, or Naperville, the availability of local qualified security engineers could be problematic during a security disaster. This could mean a drop in revenue for your company, upset customers, idle employees, and defocused management. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security consultant ready to offer expertise when you have to have it to get your information system operating and restore your data.
Progent can help you at any level in your initiatives to protect your IT environment with services ranging from security assessments to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to assist small and midsize companies to design and manage safe networks powered by Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as mobile clients with Apple iOS 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 assist you to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to locate and isolate infected devices and protect undamaged resources from being compromised.
If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Introduction to Progent's Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's security consultants are accessible online or on site to offer a range of urgent or longer-term computer security services such as:
Progent's security experts can deliver world-class services in key fields of network protection that include security assessment, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security consulting.
Security Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the strength of your current network protection implementation by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and proven procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves your company time and money and assures an objective picture of weaknesses. The information your company is provided can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to run safely and adapt rapidly to new threats.
Automated Security Analysis
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis utilities such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard for economically performing a set of automatic network auditing scans to uncover possible security holes. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools like Metasploit, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand testing reports and react effectively.
Progent can help you design security into your business operations, configure scanning software, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and suggest procedures to optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security consultants are available to show you how to configure a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more on Progent's automated security evaluation.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory bundles intended to allow small companies to receive a professional security evaluation from an accredited security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your company firewall to uncover potential risks in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional executes a system scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to assess the risk to internal assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is directed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the data collected by the scan and suggests practical remediation where called for.
Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network to help you expose, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.
Stealth Security Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any serious IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and consistently checked. Learn more about Progent's network penetration testing consulting.
Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security solutions includes extensive field work with leading firewalls and VPN products from a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more value than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, integrate, optimize, administer and debug firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and debugging services.
Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and offsite connection products represent a full range of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business goals. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security and VPN Products.
Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security vendors including Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security plan and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.
Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent offer small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup consultants can provide world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size 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 IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: Network 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 data about your network infrastructure, procedures, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Security Design
Every company ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack processes and response planning. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your IT security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, repair the network, record the experience, and get business functions running as quickly as possible.
Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to assist your business to run a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and create a company-wide security plan to implement security processes and controls to reduce future attacks and dangers.
CISM Certified Information Security Support Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the core competencies and global standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to master. It gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver effective security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals to assist companies with:
CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Support
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the area of information security defined by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a variety security areas including:
CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP status through thorough examination and significant experience with information security architecture. The ISSAP credential indicates demonstrated competence in the most complex demands of information system security architecture within the broader scope of information security expertise needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all phases of architecture security including.
CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is an important achievement that represents mastery in network security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass an extensive examination given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit specialists can help your company with:
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to create and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk mitigation specialists offer a range of risk assessment services including:
GIAC Qualified Network Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in critical categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit consultants can assist your company in the areas of:
Talk to a Certified Security Expert
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