Company information networks in the state of Iowa can depend on prompt and affordable remote help from Progent's certified network security professionals to resolve complex security issues. Rates are reasonable, billing is by the minute, engagement is immediate, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for complex projects that demand the services of seasoned security engineers with high-level industry certifications.
In case your Iowa small business is situated some distance from larger metropolitan areas like Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, or Sioux City, help from local accredited network security support specialists could be problematic when you have a security disaster. This can result in a loss of productivity for your company, angry clients, unproductive employees, and defocused executives. By contacting Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security professional ready to offer assistance when you need it to keep your network on line and restore your information.
Progent can assist you in a variety of ways in your efforts to guard your IT environment with support that ranges from network security audits to developing a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides economical service to assist companies of any size to configure and manage protected IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX or Linux operating systems plus BYOD clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard clean resources from being penetrated.
If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Overview of Progent's Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and defense against e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.
Progent's security professionals are available online or in person to offer a range of urgent or longer-term IT security services which include:
Progent's security experts provide advanced support in key facets of computer security including analysis, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security consulting.
Security Assessment
Progent's certified security consultants can assess the strength of your existing computer protection environment through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves you money and assures an accurate picture of gaps. The knowledge your business gains can make up the foundation of a security plan that will permit your information system to run safely and adapt quickly to future threats.
Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent provides expertise in the application of security auditing packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and LANguard from GFI for economically performing a variety of automatic system auditing scans to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad experience with other security auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, as well as utilities like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond effectively.
Progent can help you design protection into your business operations, install auditing tools, plan and deploy a protected network environment, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to assist you to set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn additional information about Progent's network security assessment.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Packages for Small Companies
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an impartial network security evaluation from a certified security specialist. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs an extensive test of your network from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine possible risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to inside threats. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a protected external location. The process is directed by a consultant with high-level security credentials and who generates a document that details and interprets the data collected by the security scan and suggests practical remediation where called for.
Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Security Assessment Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, programmable testing of your internal and perimeter network so you can identify, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Network Intrusion Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house IT staff. Stealth penetration checking uncovers whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently checked. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network penetration testing support services.
Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the services of engineers who have earned key industry accreditations including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The new ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more value than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire family of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls 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 bring powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist your company to maintain your existing PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to design, deploy, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.
Cisco Network Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's security and remote connection technology provide a comprehensive line of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to help your business to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align best with your company objectives. Read more information about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Appliances.
Support Expertise for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security plan and select the right products from multiple vendors to support your security goals while sticking within your spending limits.
Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS 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 backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to restore your critical data. 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 technology of leading information security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway provides 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 safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, see ProSight 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 applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save as much as half of time spent looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating 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 as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Certified Network Security Planning
Any company ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that incorporates both preventive procedures and reaction planning. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy assists your company's IT security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by a security penetration, fix the damage, record the experience, and get the IT network running as quickly as feasible.
Progent's certified information security engineers are available to assist your company to run a comprehensive risk assessment and define a network security strategy to establish security policies and mechanisms to minimize ongoing attacks and dangers.
CISM Qualified System Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the basic capabilities and international standards of performance that information security managers are required to learn. It provides business management the assurance that those who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver effective security management and support services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to assist businesses with:
CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information protection under ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a broad range of security areas such as:
CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification through rigorous testing and significant experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven skill in the most in-depth demands of information security architecture within the broader field of IS security knowledge needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all phases of secure network architecture such as.
CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Consulting Support
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass a comprehensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit engineers are available to assist your IT organization in the areas of:
CRISC Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified IT risk mitigation engineers offer a variety of risk assessment services such as:
GIAC Qualified Security Engineering Support
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key categories of network, information, and program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified security audit consultants are available to help your IT organization with:
Contact a Security Expert
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