Kentucky Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Small business computer networks in the state ofKentuckycan depend on fast and economical remote help from Progent's accredited security consultants to assist with critical security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is per minute, sign-up is fast, and service is world class. Progent also offers assistance for long-term engagements that demand the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top security certifications.

In case yourKentuckynetwork is away from more populated metropolitan areas likeLouisville, Lexington, Owensboro, or Bowling Green, support from local accredited security consultants could be limited when you have an emergency. This could mean lost revenue for your business, upset customers, unproductive employees, and distracted management. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security engineer who can deliver expertise whenever you have to have it to keep your system on line and restore your information.

Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to defend your information system with services ranging from security assessments to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides affordable support to help small and midsize companies to set up and maintain protected networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco technology and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile clients with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and encryption. The onsite gateway can also enable Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's security consultants are accessible online or in person to provide a variety of emergency or longer-term IT security services which include:

• Run comprehensive network security audits
• Recover rapidly after serious security breaches
  
• Install hardware and software firewalls
• Configure safe techniques for offsite and mobile connectivity
• Deploy effective software for automatic defense against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a comprehensive security strategy with 24x7 security monitoring
  
• Provide outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
• Help Create a practical data backup and recovery solution based on System Center Data Protection Manager backup/restore technology

Progent's consultants can deliver world-class support in key facets of computer protection including analysis, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security planning.

System Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the strength of your current computer security systems through exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's skill in this testing saves you time and money and assures a detailed portrayal of weaknesses. The information your business gains can form the basis of a security plan that can permit your information system to operate safely and adapt quickly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the use of security evaluation software including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for economically performing a variety of automatic network auditing checks to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive experience with other security analysis products such as NMAP, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools such as Metasploit Framework, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your company processes, configure auditing tools, plan and deploy a protected system architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to help you set up a firewall, design safe remote connectivity to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Learn additional information about Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an independent security assessment from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your network from beyond your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs a network scan from a secure computer within your firewall to uncover your exposure to inside assaults. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is overseen by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who generates a document that summarizes and analyzes the data collected by the security scan and suggests practical improvements where appropriate.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any successful IT system security plan. Progent’s security professionals can perform extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are correctly set up and actively checked. Learn additional information on Progent's stealth security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's background in network security technology encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN products from a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more value than Cisco's earlier PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new deployments. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist your company to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, deploy, optimize, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite access products offer a full line of manageable security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and VPN concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your business to select Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your business goals. Find out more information concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Products.

Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
Progent offers small and medium size businesses expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security plan and select appropriate products from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify 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. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver world-class expertise to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: 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 leading data security companies to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to 50% of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re planning enhancements, doing maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Planning
Any company ought to have a carefully considered security program that includes both pre-attack procedures and reaction planning. The pre-attack plan is a collection of steps that help to reduce security weaknesses. The reactive strategy assists your company's network security personnel to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the network, document the experience, and get business functions operational as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security engineers can to help you to perform a comprehensive risk evaluation and create a company-wide security strategy to implement security policies and controls to reduce future assaults and threats.

CISM Accredited Information Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the basic competencies and global standards of skill that information security professionals are required to master. It gives executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM credential have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security management and support services. Progent offers the services of CISM Certified security professionals to assist businesses with:

• IS Security Strategies
• Risk Analysis
• Network Security Program Management
• IS Security Administration
• Response Management

CISSP Qualified Security Consulting Services
CISSP certification denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has granted the CISSP credential accreditation in the field of information protection stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a broad range of security fields such as:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier information system architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous testing and significant work with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents demonstrated competence in the most in-depth demands of information security architecture bounded by the wider field of IS security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

• Access Management Mechanisms and Techniques
• Phone System and Network Infrastructure Protection
• Data Encryption Options
• Needs Evaluation and Security Standards
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
• Hardware Security

CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a recognized qualification that represents expertise in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA accreditation requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-certified security audit engineers are available to assist your business with:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• Information Technology Governance
• Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
• Information Technology Support
• Protecting Data Assets
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk management consultants offer a variety of risk identification services such as:

• Collect data and study documentation to identify significant vulnerabilities
• Identify legal, industry, and business mandates and organizational standards associated with your information system to assess their possible influence on your strategic goals
• Point out potential threats for your business processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and provide seminars to make sure your organization appreciate information system risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Connect identified risk vectors to your associated operational procedures to help assign risk ownership
• Determine risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement

GIAC Qualified Network Security Consulting Services
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security experts. GIAC's goal is to make sure that an accredited security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to provide support in vital areas of system, data, and software security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and government organizations around the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC information security audit consultants are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:

• Auditing Networks
• Incident Response
• Intrusion Detection
• Web-based Application Security
• SIEM solutions

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Engineer
To see how you can get in touch with a certified security consultant for online or on-premises help in Kentucky, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Computer Support.