Michigan Network Security, Email Filtering, Business Continuity

Business IT networks inMichigancan depend on fast and economical remote help from Progent's certified network security professionals to fix complex security issues. The cost is competitive, billing is per minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is world class. Progent also provides assistance for long-term projects that requires the knowledge of senior security consultants with high-level security certifications.

In case yourMichigancompany is situated some distance from more populated metropolitan neighborhoods likeDetroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Sterling Heights, Flint, Lansing, or Ann Arbor, support from local certified security professionals could be problematic when there's an urgent situation. This could mean a drop in productivity for your company, upset clients, idle employees, and distracted executives. By contacting Progent's remote support, you have access to a Premier security consultant ready to offer expertise whenever you need it to keep your information system on line and restore your information.

Progent can assist you in your efforts to guard your network with services that ranges from security checks to creating a comprehensive security strategy. Progent provides economical support to help small and midsize companies to set up and maintain safe networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as mobile clients with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also assist you to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter.

Progent's certified experts are accessible online or in person to provide a variety of urgent or project-based computer security services such as:

• Run thorough network security evaluations
• Recover rapidly after serious security breaches
  
• Install hardware and software firewalls
• Configure safe methods for remote and mobile connectivity
• Install advanced applications for protection against spam and DHAs
  
• Develop a comprehensive security plan with 24x7 monitoring
  
• Offer outsourced Help Desk Call Center Support
• Help Develop an effective network backup and disaster recovery strategy centered on System Center Data Protection Manager automated backup capability

Progent's support professionals offer advanced support in key areas of system protection including analysis, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security planning.

Security Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can evaluate the vulnerability of your current computer security environment through comprehensive remote automated testing via advanced utilities and tested techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves your company consulting fees and offers an accurate picture of weaknesses. The knowledge your IT organization gains can make up the foundation of a security strategy that will allow your network to operate dependably and react quickly to new risks.

Automated Vulnerability Assessment
Progent offers expertise in the use of security auditing products such as MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically running a set of programmed network testing scans to identify potential security problems. Progent has extensive knowledge of additional security analysis tools such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye, as well as tools like SolarWinds, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to design security into your business processes, install scanning applications, plan and implement a secure system environment, and recommend procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are available to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Find out additional information concerning Progent's automated security analysis.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory service bundles intended to allow small businesses to receive an impartial network security assessment from a qualified security expert. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your company firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional executes a system scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to evaluate your exposure to internal attacks. The two security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured external site. The project is managed by a consultant who has earned high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that details and interprets the data collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where appropriate.

Network Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any successful network security strategy. Progent’s security professionals can run thorough penetration checks without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly configured and actively checked. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network security penetration analysis consulting.

Firewall/VPN Support
Progent's expertise in security solutions encompasses extensive field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology from a variety of companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec. Progent offers the services of engineers with important networking 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 Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more value than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. Since Cisco's acquisition 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 market's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your business to plan, integrate, tune, manage and debug firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower configuration and debugging support.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology offer a complete line of manageable security products to help safeguard your wired and wireless network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP qualifications who are able to help your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit most closely with your company objectives. Learn additional details about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Appliances.

Consulting Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size businesses expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Check Point Software, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can help you design a detailed security plan and select appropriate technologies from a variety of suppliers to support your security goals while staying within your spending restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management 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 and compliance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-based AV products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and mid-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and VMs that have become lost or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to a local device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, when needed, can help you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight DPS Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays 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 ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Design
Any business ought to have a thoroughly considered security program that incorporates both preventive processes and reaction planning. The proactive strategy is a collection of procedures intended to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan helps your network security personnel to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, repair the network, document the event, and get the IT network running as soon as possible.

Progent's expert IT security engineers are available to assist your company to run a complete risk assessment and create a network security strategy to implement security processes and controls to minimize future assaults and threats.

CISM Qualified System Security Consulting Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee defines the core capabilities and international standards of skill that IT security managers are expected to master. CISM provides business management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to provide efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security consultants to assist businesses with:

• Network Security Strategies
• Risk Management
• Network Security Program Management
• Network Security Administration
• Recovery Planning

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Support
CISSP certification denotes expertise with a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has granted certification accreditation in the area of information protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a broad range of security areas including:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Cryptography Mechanisms
• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Planning

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture professionals are experts who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents demonstrated competence in the more complex demands of information security architecture bounded by the wider field of IS security expertise needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of secure network architecture including.

• Access Control Systems and Methodologies
• Telecommunications and Network Security
• Encryption/Decryption Solutions
• Needs Analysis and Security Standards
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP) and DRP
• Site Security

CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA IS security audit experts can help your IT organization in the areas of:

• IS Audit Process
• IT Enforcement
• Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
• IT Support
• Protecting Information Resources
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness

CRISC Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to design, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a business continuity plan based on leading practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation specialists offer a variety of risk assessment services including:

• Gather data and study documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
• Identify legal, industry, and contractual mandates and organizational policies associated with your network to determine their possible impact on your business goals
• Identify possible vulnerabilities for your business processes to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
• Develop a risk awareness initiative and provide seminars to ensure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
• Match identified risk vectors to related business procedures to help determine risk ownership
• Determine risk appetite with executive management and key stakeholders to make sure they align

GIAC Qualified IS Security Consulting Support
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of computer security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that a certified professional possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in critical categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit engineers are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:

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

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Expert
To see how to contact a security consultant for remote or on-premises expertise in Michigan, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Help.