Small business information networks in Nevada can now get quick and economical remote access to Progent's certified network security professionals to assist with the toughest security problems. The cost is competitive, billing is per minute, sign-up is quick, and service is world class. Progent also provides help for long-term engagements that demand the services of senior security engineers with high-level security credentials.

In case your Nevada small business is far from more populated urban neighborhoods like Las Vegas, Henderson, Paradise, or Reno, access to nearby qualified network security professionals is often problematic when there's a security disaster. This can cause lost productivity for your business, upset clients, idle workers, and defocused executives. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to offer assistance whenever you require it to keep your information system on line and salvage your information.

Progent can assist you in your initiatives to protect your network with support ranging from security checks to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent provides affordable service to assist small and midsize companies to set up and maintain protected IT environments based on Windows and Cisco technology and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as BYOD clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also help you outsource spam filtering and protection from e-mail-based security threats. 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 protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's security professionals are accessible remotely or in person to provide a range of emergency or longer-term IT security services including:

  • Run comprehensive security evaluations
  • Clean up rapidly after serious security breaches
  • Install firewalls from multiple vendors
  • Configure safe methods for offsite and mobile access
  • Install advanced utilities for automatic defense against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Develop a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 security monitoring
  • Provide comprehensive Help Desk Support
  • Help Create a practical network backup and restore strategy centered on Data Protection Manager automated backup technology
If your company has an urgent need for computer security help, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support.

Progent's support professionals can deliver advanced support in vital areas of computer security including analysis, firewall and VPN expertise, and advanced security consulting.

Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing network protection implementation through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on advanced utilities and tested techniques. Progent's experience in this testing saves your company money and offers a detailed picture of system vulnerability. The knowledge your business gains can be used as the basis of a security strategy that will allow your network to operate safely and react rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Security Audits
Progent offers consulting in the use of security analysis utilities such as Microsoft's MBSA and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a variety of programmed network auditing checks to uncover potential security gaps. Progent has extensive knowledge of other security auditing products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye, plus tools like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your business operations, configure auditing tools, define and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend policies to optimize the security of your network. Progent's security engineers are ready to show you how to set up a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's network security analysis.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get an independent security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs an extensive test of your network from beyond your company firewall to uncover possible risks in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a network scan from an authorized machine within your firewall to assess the risk to internal threats. The two security inventory services are configured and executed from a secured external site. The project is directed by an engineer with high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information captured by the security scan and proposes cost-effective improvements if called for.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any successful IT system security plan. Progent’s security experts can run extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Learn additional information about Progent's network penetration analysis consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security solutions includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network technology offered by multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, and CheckPoint. Progent can provide the support of engineers who have earned key networking accreditations including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more performance than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring powerful new features such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate efficiently to 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 business to design, integrate, optimize, manage and debug firewall solutions built around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
Cisco's security and remote connection products offer a full range of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco's CCIE and CCNP certifications who are able to help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your business objectives. Read additional information about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Products.

Support Expertise for Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
Progent offers small and medium size companies expert support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's affordable ProSight line of outsourced network 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 and compliance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information security standards. Progent will help you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows rapid restoration of critical data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed 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 top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing 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 Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time wasted trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for storing and sharing all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning improvements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Every company ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack processes and response planning. The pre-attack plan is a collection of procedures designed to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack plan assists your company's network security engineers to evaluate the impact resulting from a security penetration, repair the damage, document the event, and get business functions operational as soon as possible.

Progent's certified IS security engineers are available to help your business to perform a full risk assessment and create a company-wide security plan to implement security processes and mechanisms to mitigate future attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified Network Security Support Expertise
The CISM organization describes the basic capabilities and global standards of performance that IT security managers are required to learn. It gives business management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security administration and support services. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals to help businesses with:

  • Information Security Governance
  • Vulnerability Management
  • IS Security Implementation Management
  • Network Security Management
  • Recovery Management
Learn additional information about Progent's CISM Certified Information Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of a global standard for network security. ANSI has granted certification accreditation in the field of data protection defined by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers access to of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your enterprise in a variety security areas such as:

  • Security Management Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Solutions and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Learn more details concerning Progent's CISSP-certified Information Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified IT architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification through rigorous testing and extensive experience with network security design. The ISSAP credential indicates demonstrated competence in the more in-depth demands of information system security architecture bounded by the wider field of information security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security consultants can help your business with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Systems and Techniques
  • Telecommunications and System Infrastructure Security
  • Cryptography Options
  • Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Hardware Security
Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Consulting Expertise.

CISA Accredited IS Security Auditing Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a prestigious qualification that represents expertise in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has consultants pass a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA network security audit experts are available to assist your company with:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Enforcement
  • Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
  • IT Support
  • Protecting Information Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Learn more information concerning Progent's CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC program was initiated by ISACA to verify an IT professional's skills to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to develop and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC IT risk mitigation experts can provide a variety of risk evaluation services such as:

  • Collect data and study documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
  • Identify legal, industry, and contractual requirements and company standards associated with your network to assess their possible impact on your strategic goals
  • Identify possible vulnerabilities for your operational processes to help in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to ensure your stakeholders understand IT risk so they can assist with your risk control program
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated operational procedures to help assign risk ownership
  • Determine risk tolerance with executive management and major stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement
Learn additional details concerning Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants.

GIAC Certified Network Security Consulting Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of network security experts. GIAC's mission is to verify that an accredited security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to deliver services in critical areas of system, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and institutions throughout the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit specialists can assist your business with:

Read additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact a Certified Security Engineer
To learn how you can access a certified Progent security consultant for online or on-premises expertise in Nevada, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Network Help.