Business networks in Kansas can depend on prompt and affordable online help from Progent's accredited security engineers to resolve complex security problems. The cost is reasonable, charges are by the minute, engagement is immediate, and support is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for long-term engagements that requires the services of senior security consultants with top security certifications.

If your Kansas business is outside of larger metropolitan neighborhoods such as Wichita, Overland Park, Kansas City, or Topeka, the availability of local certified security professionals may be limited when you have a security disaster. This can cause a drop in productivity for your business, upset clients, idle employees, and distracted management. By calling Progent, you have access to a Certified security professional who can deliver assistance when you have to have it to keep your computer network running and restore your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to guard your network with support that can range from network security assessments to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent offers affordable service to assist companies of any size to design and manage safe IT environments powered by Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers based on UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified experts are available online or in person to offer a variety of emergency or longer-term computer security services such as:

If your network has an emergency need for computer security support, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's engineers can deliver advanced services in vital fields of computer protection including security evaluation, firewall and VPN solutions, and advanced security planning.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the strength of your existing network protection environment by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this testing saves your company time and money and assures an objective portrayal of gaps. The knowledge your IT organization gains can make up the foundation of a network protection plan that will allow your information system to operate safely and respond rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Audits
Progent offers consulting in the application of security testing products such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard for affordably running a set of programmed network testing scans to identify potential security weaknesses. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional security analysis products such as NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you build protection into your business operations, configure scanning software, plan and deploy a protected network architecture, and suggest policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, implement safe remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out additional information about Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory scanning packages designed to enable small companies to get an impartial network security assessment from a certified security expert. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to evaluate the risk to inside assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a secured external location. The process is overseen by a consultant who has earned top security credentials and who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the data captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where called for.

Stealth Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is a key part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can run thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history analysis are properly configured and actively checked. Find out more on Progent's stealth security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent's expertise in security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN technology offered by multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned important networking certifications including CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Debugging
The new ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more performance than Cisco's legacy firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new deployments. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade to Cisco 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 your business to design, deploy, tune, administer and debug firewall environments built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more details about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Engineering Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection products provide a complete range of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your organization to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business objectives. Read more information concerning Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Products.

Consulting Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWALL. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to support your security goals while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes next generation behavior analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools packaged within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements such as HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure 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 protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for storing and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both preventive procedures and reaction plans. The proactive plan is a collection of procedures intended to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack strategy helps your company's security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, fix the damage, record the experience, and get the IT network running as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security engineers can to help you to run a complete vulnerability evaluation and define a company-wide security plan to implement security processes and mechanisms to minimize future assaults and dangers.

CISM Certified System Security Support Assistance
The CISM committee defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that information security professionals are expected to master. CISM gives executive management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM credential have the experience and knowledge to provide effective security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Premier security consultants to help companies with:

  • IS Security Governance
  • Vulnerability Management
  • IS Security Program Management
  • Network Security Administration
  • Recovery Planning
Learn more details about Progent's CISM Qualified IS Security Engineering Expertise.

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential recognizes expertise with an international standard for network security. ANSI has granted certification accreditation in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security consultants who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a variety security fields such as:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Control Solutions and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out additional information about Progent's CISSP-certified Network Security Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive work with network security design. The ISSAP certification represents demonstrated skill in the more in-depth requirements of information security architecture within the broader field of information security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your company with all aspects of architecture security such as.

  • Access Control Systems and Techniques
  • Phone System and Network Security
  • Cryptography Solutions
  • Needs Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Find out more information concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Expertise.

CISA Certified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that indicates mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass an extensive examination given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA security audit consultants are available to help your business with:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Planned Useful Life
  • Information Technology Support
  • Safeguarding Information Assets
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Find out more details about Progent's CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Support.

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and execute a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk management engineers can provide a range of risk evaluation services including:

  • Collect data and study documentation to identify major risk scenarios
  • Identify statutory, industry, and contractual requirements and company policies associated with your network to assess their potential influence on your strategic goals
  • Point out potential vulnerabilities for your business processes to assist in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to ensure your organization understand information system risk so they can assist with your risk management program
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to related operational processes to help determine risk responsibility
  • Determine risk appetite with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement
Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Experts.

GIAC Accredited Information System Security Engineering Support
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge needed to provide services in vital categories of network, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC IS security audit experts are available to help your business in the areas of:

Find out additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with a Security Expert
To learn how you can access a Progent security consultant for remote or on-premises assistance in Kansas, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.