Maryland Information Assurance, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery

Small business networks in the state ofMarylandcan now get fast and affordable remote access to Progent's qualified security professionals to resolve urgent security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are per minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for complex engagements that demand the services of senior security engineers with top security certifications.

In case yourMarylandsmall business is located some distance from more populated urban areas likeBaltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Dundalk, support from local accredited security support specialists is often problematic when there's a crisis. This can result in a drop in income for your business, angry customers, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security professional ready to deliver assistance whenever you require it to get your network on line and salvage your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your initiatives to defend your network with support services that ranges from network security audits to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent provides economical support to help small and midsize companies to design and maintain secure IT environments based on Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX or Linux operating systems as well as BYOD users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam filtering and protection from email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide centralized management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified consultants are accessible remotely or in person to offer a range of emergency or project-based IT security services such as:

• Run thorough network security evaluations
• Recover promptly after virus and worm attacks
  
• Configure hardware and software firewalls
• Configure safe solutions for offsite and mobile connectivity
• Deploy advanced utilities for automatic defense against viruses, spam and DHAs
  
• Help create a comprehensive security strategy with proactive security monitoring
  
• Offer outsourced Help Desk Support
• Help Develop a practical data backup and recovery solution built around System Center Data Protection Manager automated backup technology

Progent's consultants provide world-class support in key facets of system security that include analysis, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security consulting.

System Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the strength of your current computer security environment through comprehensive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and tested techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves you money and assures an accurate picture of security holes. The knowledge your IT organization gains can be used as the foundation of a security strategy that will allow your information system to operate safely and react quickly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Audits
Progent offers consulting in the application of security evaluation software including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a variety of programmed system testing scans to identify possible security problems. Progent has broad experience with other network auditing tools including NMAP, AMAP application mapper, eEye, plus utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of testing reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your business processes, configure auditing software, plan and implement a protected network architecture, and recommend procedures to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are ready to help you set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn more concerning Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory service bundles designed to enable small companies to receive a professional security assessment from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your company firewall to determine possible risks in the security profile you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a system scan from a secure computer inside your company firewall to uncover your exposure to inside assaults. Both security inventory services are configured and run from a protected remote location. The process is overseen by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who generates a report that details and interprets the data collected by the security scan and proposes cost-effective improvements where called for.

Stealth Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is an important part of any serious network security strategy. Progent’s security experts can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are correctly set up and consistently checked. Learn additional information about Progent's stealth penetration testing support services.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Expertise
Progent's expertise in security technology encompasses extensive field work with leading firewalls and VPN products offered by a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent offers the support of consultants with important industry accreditations including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can assist you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances and migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to design, configure, optimize, administer and debug firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Security and VPN Support Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology provide a full line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who are able to assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that fit best with your company objectives. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security Technology and VPN Products.

Support Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and medium size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and choose appropriate technologies from multiple vendors to support your security goals while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and allows rapid recovery of vital files, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance adds a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

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 key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. 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 capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information about your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away 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 such as recommended procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require when you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Planning
Any business should have a thoroughly thought out security program that includes both preventive procedures and reaction planning. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that help to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive plan assists your IT security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from an attack, repair the network, record the event, and get business functions operational as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security consultants are available to assist your business to run a complete vulnerability assessment and create a company-wide security plan to implement security processes and mechanisms to reduce future attacks and threats.

CISM Accredited System Security Engineering Expertise
The CISM organization defines the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to learn. CISM gives executive management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to deliver effective security management and consulting services. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Premier security consultants to help companies with:

• Network Security Processes
• Vulnerability Analysis
• IS Security Implementation Management
• Network Security Administration
• Response Management

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Services
CISSP denotes expertise with a global standard for data security. ANSI has granted certification recognition in the field of information security defined by ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a broad range of security fields including:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Models
• Access Management Solutions and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Cryptography Technology
• Telecom, Network and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Consulting Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive experience with information security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven competence in the most complex requirements of information system security architecture within the wider field of information security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your business with all aspects of architecture security such as.

• Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
• Phone System and Network Security
• Cryptography Options
• Requirements Analysis and Security Guidelines
• BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
• Physical Security

CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The CISA accreditation is a prestigious achievement that represents mastery in network security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA IS security audit consultants are available to assist your business with:

• IS Audit Process
• Information Technology Enforcement
• Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
• Information Technology Service Delivery
• Safeguarding Information Resources
• Business Continuity Planning

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 plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk management experts offer a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Collect data and study documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
• Identify legal, regulatory, and business mandates and organizational standards associated with your information system to assess their possible impact on your strategic objectives
• Identify potential vulnerabilities for your business processes to help in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Create a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can assist with your risk management process
• Connect identified risk vectors to related operational processes to help assign risk ownership
• Determine risk tolerance with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they match

GIAC Certified IS Security Consulting Assistance
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's mission is to verify that a certified professional possesses the skills necessary to deliver services in vital areas of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-certified security audit engineers are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:

• Assessing IT Infrastructure
• Security Incident Response
• Intrusion Detection
• Web Services Security
• Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Expert
To learn how you can get in touch with a Progent security engineer for online or onsite help in Maryland, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.