Maryland Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Business networks inMarylandcan have quick and economical remote technical support from Progent's accredited network security consultants to help with critical security problems. The cost is affordable, charges are per minute, sign-up is quick, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for complex projects that requires the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top security credentials.

If yourMarylandoffice is far from major urban areas likeBaltimore, Columbia, Silver Spring, or Dundalk, access to local certified network security engineers may be problematic during an urgent situation. This can cause lost revenue for your business, upset customers, unproductive workers, and distracted management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security professional ready to deliver expertise whenever you need it to keep your computer network running and restore your data.

Progent can assist you in all your efforts to guard your IT environment with services that can range from network security audits to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent provides affordable service to help companies of any size to configure and manage safe IT environments powered by Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms as well as mobile users with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam filtering and defense against email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top information security vendors to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified professionals are accessible remotely or on premises to offer a variety of emergency or project-based network security services such as:

• Perform extensive network security audits
• Recuperate promptly after attacks
  
• Set up and troubleshoot firewalls
• Implement safe solutions for offsite and mobile access
• Install advanced applications for defense against spam and DHAs
  
• Help create a comprehensive security strategy with proactive network monitoring
  
• Offer outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Help Create a practical data backup and business continuity plan built around System Center Data Protection Manager automated backup technology

Progent's engineers provide advanced support in key fields of system security including security evaluation, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security consulting.

Security Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the strength of your existing computer security implementation by performing exhaustive remote automated testing based on sophisticated software tools and tested procedures. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company money and offers a detailed picture of security holes. The information your company gains can make up the basis of a security plan that can allow your information system to operate dependably and react rapidly to new risks.

Automated Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides expertise in the use of security analysis utilities including MBSA and GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner for economically running a variety of programmed network testing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional security auditing tools such as NMAP, AMAP, eEye, as well as tools such as Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you build protection into your business processes, configure auditing tools, define and implement a secure system environment, and recommend procedures to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are able to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install VPN. Learn additional information on Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory packages intended to enable small businesses to receive an independent security assessment from a certified security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential risks in the security profile you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your firewall to assess the risk to internal assaults. Both security inventory services are configured and executed from a protected external site. The process is directed by an engineer who has earned high-level security credentials and who generates a report that details and interprets the data captured by the scan and suggests practical improvements where appropriate.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any serious network security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can perform extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your company's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and actively checked. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's background in security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network products offered by multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent can provide the support of engineers with important industry accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Integration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more performance than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for new deployments. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to manage your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to design, configure, tune, administer and debug firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology provide a full range of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can help your business to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your company goals. Read more information about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Products.

Support Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Products
Progent provides small and mid-size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and VPN security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate technologies from a variety of suppliers to support your security goals while staying within your spending limits.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of managed services is designed 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 available from 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-based analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for immediate action. Progent can also assist you to install and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows rapid restoration of critical data, applications and VMs that have become lost or damaged due to component breakdowns, software glitches, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's backup and recovery consultants can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of top information security companies to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III 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 configured and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn 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 makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you’re making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Planning
Any company ought to have a thoroughly considered security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack processes and reaction planning. The proactive plan is a set of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy helps your network security engineers to evaluate the impact resulting from a security penetration, fix the system, record the experience, and get the IT network running as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified information security consultants can to help your company to perform a full risk assessment and define a company-wide security strategy to implement security policies and controls to mitigate future attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified Information Security Engineering Expertise
The CISM committee defines the basic competencies and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to master. It gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the background and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

• Network Security Processes
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Information Security Program Management
• IS Security Management
• Recovery Management

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP certification denotes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted the CISSP credential recognition in the area of information protection stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your company in a variety security fields including:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Management Solutions and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Data Encryption Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified system architecture engineers are experts who have earned ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive work with information security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates demonstrated mastery in the more challenging demands of information system security architecture bounded by the broader field of IS security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all phases of architecture security such as.

• Access Management Systems and Techniques
• Phone System and Network Infrastructure Security
• Encryption/Decryption Options
• Needs Analysis and Security Standards
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and DRP
• Physical Security

CISA Qualified Network Security Auditing Consulting Services
The CISA accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit consultants can assist your company in the areas of:

• Information Systems Audit Process
• Information Technology Administration
• Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
• Information Technology Support
• Protecting Information Assets
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CRISC Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist you to develop and execute a business continuity strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation engineers can provide a range of risk evaluation services such as:

• Gather data and review documentation to identify major risk scenarios
• Inventory statutory, regulatory, and business requirements and organizational policies related to your network to determine their possible influence on your strategic goals
• Point out possible threats for your operational workflows to help in analyzing your corporate risk
• Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to ensure your stakeholders understand IS risk so they can assist with your risk management program
• Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated operational procedures to help assign risk responsibility
• Determine risk appetite with your senior management and key stakeholders to make sure they align

GIAC Accredited IS Security Engineering Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in key categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations throughout the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit specialists are available to assist your business with:

• Assessing Security Systems
• Security Incident Handling
• Traffic Analysis
• Web Services Security
• SIEM solutions

Get in Touch with a Certified Progent Security Engineer
To see how to get in touch with a certified security engineer for online or onsite assistance in Maryland, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.