Business networks in Ohio can now get prompt and affordable online help from Progent's qualified network security professionals to help with urgent security problems. The cost is reasonable, billing is by the minute, sign-up is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides assistance for long-term projects that requires the services of senior security consultants with top security credentials.

If your Ohio company is based far from larger urban areas such as Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, or Dayton, contact with local qualified security support specialists could be limited during an urgent situation. This can result in a loss of productivity for your company, angry customers, unproductive workers, and distracted executives. By calling Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Premier security consultant who can deliver help whenever you require it to get your information system on line and recover your information.

Progent can help you in your initiatives to defend your information system with support services that can range from security audits to creating a comprehensive security plan. Progent provides economical support to help companies of any size to design and manage protected IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X platforms plus BYOD users with Apple iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Progent can also show you how to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class protection for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external threats and saves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, 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 certified experts are accessible remotely or on site to offer a variety of urgent or longer-term computer security services such as:

If your business has an urgent requirement for IT security help, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's support professionals offer advanced services in key fields of system security that include auditing, firewalls and VPN, and advanced security planning.

System Security Audits
Progent's certified security consultants can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing network protection environment by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company consulting fees and assures an objective portrayal of security holes. The knowledge your business is provided can form the foundation of a network protection strategy that will permit your network to operate dependably and adapt quickly to new threats.

Automated Network Security Audits
Progent provides consulting in the use of security testing utilities such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard NSS for economically running a variety of programmed system testing scans to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has extensive knowledge of other network auditing tools such as NMAP, AMAP, eEye, plus tools like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can show you how to design protection into your business operations, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to configure a firewall, implement secure remote access to email and business applications, and integrate virtual private network. Learn additional information on Progent's automated security evaluation.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Companies
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory and evaluation packages designed to enable small companies to get an impartial security assessment from an accredited security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs an extensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert executes a system scan from a secure computer inside your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to inside attacks. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned high-level security credentials and who produces a document that summarizes and interprets the information collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if appropriate.

Stealth Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any serious network security strategy. Progent’s security experts can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house network support staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event history monitoring are properly configured and consistently monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's stealth security penetration testing support services.

Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's background in network security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN products from a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Juniper. Progent offers the services of consultants with key industry certifications including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

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 of firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for all new installations. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can assist your company to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide online and on-premises support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your organization to design, deploy, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more details about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and debugging services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology provide a complete line of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit most closely with your company objectives. Find out more details concerning Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security and VPN Appliances.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security strategy and select the right technologies from multiple vendors to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates cutting edge behavior analysis tools to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire malware attack progression including blocking, detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's unique requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security regulations. Progent will assist you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also assist you to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates your backup processes and enables fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPPA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the technology of leading information security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight 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 business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as 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 planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Find out more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Consulting
Every company should develop a thoroughly considered security program that incorporates both proactive procedures and reaction planning. The proactive plan is a collection of steps that help to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy helps your security personnel to evaluate the damage resulting from a security penetration, repair the network, document the experience, and get business functions operational as quickly as feasible.

Progent's expert information security engineers are available to assist your company to perform a comprehensive risk assessment and create a network security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing assaults and dangers.

CISM Accredited Security Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the core competencies and worldwide standards of skill that IT security managers are expected to learn. CISM gives executive management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification possess the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and consulting consulting. Progent offers the expertise of CISM Premier security professionals to help companies with:

  • Network Security Processes
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Network Security Implementation Management
  • Network Security Administration
  • Response Management
Learn additional information about Progent's CISM Qualified Information Security Consulting Professionals.

CISSP Certified Security Consulting Assistance
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of an international standard for network security. ANSI has granted certification recognition in the field of data protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your organization in a broad range of security fields such as:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Models
  • Access Management Solutions and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn more information concerning Progent's CISSP Security Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Expertise
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status through rigorous examination and extensive work with network security design. The ISSAP credential indicates proven mastery in the most challenging requirements of IS security architecture bounded by the broader scope of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your business with all phases of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Techniques
  • Telecommunications and System Infrastructure Protection
  • Cryptography Options
  • Requirements Analysis and Security Criteria
  • BCP and DRP
  • Hardware Security
Find out additional details about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Expertise.

CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a globally recognized qualification that signifies mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA security audit engineers are available to help your business with:

  • Information Systems Audit Services
  • IT Administration
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
  • IT Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Data Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn more details about Progent's CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Consulting Expertise.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's skills to design, implement, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and execute a workplace continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk appetite, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation consultants can provide a range of risk assessment services including:

  • Collect data and study documentation to evaluate significant vulnerabilities
  • Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies associated with your network to assess their potential influence on your strategic objectives
  • Identify possible vulnerabilities for your business processes to help in evaluating your corporate risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can assist with your risk management program
  • Match identified risk scenarios to related operational processes to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk tolerance with your senior management and key stakeholders to ensure they align
Find out more information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Certified Security Consulting Support
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to provide support in key categories of network, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit engineers can assist your business with:

Find out more information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Get in Touch with a Certified Security Expert
To learn how you can access a Progent security engineer for remote or onsite expertise in Ohio, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Computer Help.