The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that candidates pass a comprehensive test given by the ISACA professional association. Progent offers the expertise of a CISA-Certified Cybersecurity audit consultant able to help businesses in the areas of information systems audit process, information technology governance, network assets and architecture ROI, information technology service delivery, safeguarding of information resources, and business continuity planning.
Progent's certified Windows Server 2022 consultants can help your company to plan and implement a cost-effective migration to Windows Server 2022 using a self-hosted system architecture or a hybrid model that integrates cloud-based Windows Server Online with a datacenter-based installation of Windows Server 2022.
Progent offers cost-effective remote and onsite support to assist businesses to migrate any portion of their critical network infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save management hassle and hardware costs and enable the use of Google's cutting edge AI and machine learning technology. Progent can help you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, architectural design, pilot testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance optimization, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security strategies.
Progent is organized provide comprehensive remote consulting for all major technologies common to small company information networks and offers a variety of vital, on-demand support services including a temporary CIO to provide senior-level planning and negotiating capability, a Technical Response Center for help desk support, proactive remote monitoring, spam and email-borne virus filtering as an outside-the-firewall service, project management help for critical initiatives like office relocations orOS upgrades, connectivity experts for designing high-performance and robust infrastructure, certified security engineers to verify information safety and compliance, disaster recovery experts to design and document business continuity strategies, and software developers to create, enhance, or troubleshoot business application programs.
Progent can assist small and mid-size companies to implement IP voice platforms to provide their remote workforce the benefit of transparent extensions of the corporate phone system.
Progent's Check Point firewall experts can show you how to plan, integrate, and administer firewall environments built around Check Point Software NGFW firewall appliances and Check Point's cloud-based security services. Progent's consultants can also assist you support legacy Check Point firewall models or migrate efficiently to Check Point's next-generation security gateways.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist you to support Microsoft System Center 2007 Configuration Manager (SCCM 2007) to simplify operations, improve security and compliance, and increase productivity by making sure that critical applications stay up to date, tracking product licenses, and monitoring usage patterns so you can make informed purchasing decisions. Once you are set to upgrade your SCCM 2007 configuration management solution, Progent can help you to plan and carry out a smooth move to System Center 2012 Configuration Manager.
For small and midsize businesses, network security and compliance can be excessively complicated to stay ahead of yet too dangerous to overlook. The world's largest enterprises have been breached, and the leading cloud service providers have occasionally been taken down. It looks like there's no place to run. Progent makes it affordable for smaller businesses to implement critical IT security projects effectively by providing the advantage of billable time to the nearest minute without any minimum charge for remote support. This means you have the help of a world-class computer consultant to provide precisely the help you need when you need it. Progent's CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP premier security experts can assist your business with any aspect of system security including vulnerability assessments, virus screening and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss and data leak protection, regulatory compliance reporting, and designing a complete security strategy.
Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting outsourcing offers complete hosting of a small or mid-size company's servers in a solution that gives the highest degree of availability and scalability and is in addition easy to move to another host. ProSight Virtual Hosting and management services are built on mature virtualization technologies that allow small and midsize companies with multi- platform IT systems to save significantly on the expense of capital equipment, system maintenance, and network administration while achieving world-class fault tolerance and an unprecedented degree of vendor independence.
Progent's proven ransomware recovery experts can help your business to rebuild a network victimized by a ransomware crypto-worm like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Egregor.
Progent's ransomware consultants can assist your business to evaluate your ransomware defenses, remotely monitor and protect your IT environment, assist with settlement negotiations with a threat actor, and restore a network victimized by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, Snatch or Nephilim.
Progent's Microsoft Premier engineers offer expert support for enterprise-wide deployments of Microsoft Exchange Server. Progent's experts can show you how to plan multi-location Exchange Server rollouts or upgrades and can provide local personnel to help enterprises with deployments of Exchange Server in the or any area served by Progent's engineers.
If your organization does not need emergency remote help but expects to require assistance with your information system in the near future, you can save time and money and ensure that the appropriate IT skill will be available when you require it by contacting a Progent sales specialist and signing up as a client. For details, phone 800-993-9400 or send email to information@progent.com.
Nagios and MRTG are useful, license-free monitoring utilities that run under Linux and can be deployed to analyze UNIX/Linux environments, MS Windows networks, or multi-OS systems where the Linux OS and Microsoft Windows coexist. Nagios allows system managers to monitor system services including POP3, HTTP, SSH, and PING. MRTG permits you to graph the traffic in and out of SNMP network devices including servers, routers, and switches. Progent's system monitoring consultants can show you how to utilize both these programs to streamline and repair your network.
Progent's compensation structure is based on revenue sharing, so just like being an independent consultant, your income is directly tied to your generated revenue. Some of our consultants focus on quality of life and choose to consult at a more relaxed pace, utilizing our self-determined schedule to follow individual enthusiasms like hiking, motorcycle racing, skiing, fishing, travel, or sharing private time with family and friends. Other consultants use the chance to make big dollars through hard effort and long days. Progent fully encourages either side of the spectrum plus any point in the middle.
Progent is an authorized Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can plan, install, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to preserve your Microsoft 365 mailboxes, files residing on your organization's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint Document Libraries, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows endpoints.
Progent is committed to knowledge transfer from Progent's consultants to customers. By educating clients to deal with technical issues that are within their comfort zone, Progent can focus on offering high-value skills where Progent faces little competition. Medium-size companies who work with trusted independent consultants or who employ internal support staffs benefit when Progent passes on knowledge about new technology and tested processes to make their networks more robust, secure, and efficient.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist organizations of all sizes to follow leading practices to set up System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager hosts, networking, storage systems, and libraries; design, integrate, and manage private clouds, virtual machines, and VMM services in SCVMM 2012; and combine SCVMM with SCOM 2012 for comprehensive monitoring and reporting. Progent can assist your business to migrate from an older release of SCVMM or from another management system, and Progent can help you to optimize and repair your existing SCVMM environment so you get maximum return on investment.
Network monitoring commonly involves observing a network's resource utilization to help identify throughput backups or fix hardware or program problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are useful, free network monitoring tools that run under Linux and can be deployed to monitor mixed-platform environments where Linux and Windows operate together. Progent's system integration engineers can show you how to take advantage of both these tools to optimize and repair your network. Progent's Linux support professionals provide small companies and developers assistance with managing and supporting UNIX and Linux networks that work with Microsoft-based products.
Progent has put together two low-cost service bundles designed to enable small businesses to get an impartial security evaluation from a certified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to uncover potential risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer runs a system scan from an authorized machine inside your company firewall to evaluate your exposure to internal threats. The two security inventory services are set up and executed from a protected external site.
For more than two decades, Progent's consultants have delivered affordable IT planning, configuration, debugging, cybersecurity, and development for information networks of all sizes.
Progent can help you to plan and administer cost-effective ecosystems that support Windows and Linux systems and apps in either cloud-centric solutions or in hybrid network models that combine on-premises IT assets as well as one or more public cloud services. To assist you to incorporate public cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a range of cloud integration support services such as Azure enterprise hybrid cloud design and deployment consulting, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud integration, and Amazon Web Marketing Service development and debugging. Progent has two decades of background delivering advanced consulting services online, and Progent can help you successfully carry out your cloud integration projects on schedule and within your budget.
Progent's Computer Contact Center Outsourcing Support Services for desktop technical support are designed especially for small businesses who need fast availability of a Help Desk Service Center with expert phone support and effective escalation options but who have to work within a restricted network support budget. Key features of Progent's Help Desk Outsourcing Services include: Help Desk Call Center Phone Support, Secure Remote Access Provisioning, Initial System Assessment, Expert Prioritization, Virtual Help Desk Call Center Support, Per Minute Billing, and Help Desk Applications Selection and Integration.
Progent's Sun Solaris platform consulting experts provide small and mid-size businesses and software developers assistance with administering and maintaining Solaris environments that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your organization access to Solaris consultants, consulting professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISM certification. This broad array of experience offers you a convenient one-stop source to help you build and maintain a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications infrastructure that allows Solaris and Microsoft coexistence by combining MS Windows with popular versions of UNIX such as Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX Open UNIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux variations such as RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware.
Progent can help you to design, implement and manage a backupup/restore plan based on MSP360 Backup software to protect your resources residing on any major public cloud. Progent offers monitoring and remote management to protect against data loss resulting from human mistakes, system glitches, ill-intentioned insiders, and malware attacks like ransomware.
Progent's certified cybersecurity consultants can run NodeZero-powered PEN tests to make sure your security defense systems and policies are properly set up and effective.
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey and predictive modeling help you to design, deploy and debug a Wi-Fi network adapted to your environment, providing your business a wireless solution that has the coverage, performance, density, Quality of Service, data protection, and roaming ability your business needs. Wireless site survey services from Progent include remote predictive modeling for planning a wireless network and on-premises survey services for confirming, tuning, and troubleshooting a functioning wireless network.
Progent's Microsoft-Premier SQL Server engineers offer an array of services to assist small and midsize businesses to design, implement, manage, and repair MS SQL 2008 solutions so that they receive the maximum strategic advantage from Microsoft's advanced database management platform. Also, Progent can provide assistance with network infrastructure, enterprise-wide protection, and custom software programming to optimize the strategic value of your SQL Server investment.
Microsoft Windows Server Update Services allows network managers to deploy and monitor the latest Microsoft patches and security updates to Windows Server 2000, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, and Microsoft Windows XP platforms. By using Microsoft Windows Server Update Services, network support personnel can fully and effortlessly manage the installation of updates that are released through Microsoft Update to servers and workstations in an organization. Progent can assist you with technical details of the initial configuration of Microsoft SUS such as planning the Microsoft Windows Server Update Services deployment, configuring client's workstations, establishing the Group Policy settings, and making sure your Microsoft Software Update Services Group Policy Object is associated with an Active Directory container that makes sense for your network environment.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard uses the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.
Progent offers cost-effective remote support to help companies to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Glacier. Progent can help your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS integration including requirements analysis, preparedness evaluation, architectural design and review, testing, deployment, administration, performance tuning, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Access Point consultants can provide economical online and on-premises help for Catalyst Wi-Fi 6 wireless APs.
Microsoft Windows 8.1 is engineered to run on devices ranging from smartphones and tablets to power-user desktops. A wealth of new and improved capabilities, including its touchscreen interface and signature tile GUI, provide a broad selection of advantages for companies who know how to put them to work. Progent's Windows experts can help bring your organization up to speed with Windows 8.1 and show you how to gain maximum competitive advantage from the operating system's many new and enhanced technologies.
Progent provides consulting expertise for WatchGuard Firewall security appliances such as the WatchGuard Firebox and XTM series of Firewalls and the Firebox SSL VPN Gateway. Progent's WatchGuard professionals can help you select, configure, and maintain a WatchGuard Firewall product that fits your security requirements and budget. Progent can help you to manage legacy WatchGuard firewall appliances or upgrade efficiently to current WatchGuard firewalls.
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 9100 Series 802.11ax AP consultants can provide affordable online and onsite support for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points.
Progent's certified Cisco network security consultants provide high-level PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall consulting support covering infrastructure design, integration, and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security technology. The PIX and ASA Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers robust user and software policy enforcement, sophisticated attack defense, and secure access services. Ranging from economical, plug-and-play desktop devices for small and home offices to modular enterprise-class products, Cisco PIX Firewall and ASA Firewalls provide advanced security, performance, and high availability for network environments of all sizes. PIX Firewalls and ASA Firewalls are based on a hardened, specially designed operating system, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes.
Remote 24x7 monitoring, automated alerts, and actionable analytical reporting are vital to preserving the health of your IT system and avoiding preventable and costly disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology has progressed to the point that companies of any size can afford a degree of network stability that was previously reserved for enterprises. Progent can provide several RMM solutions delivered as low-cost service packages created to help your company to identify and resolve a most IT network problems before they can hurt your business.
Progent's certified professionals can help you analyze the possible advantages of Hyper-V-based server virtualization for your company, conduct pilot installations to validate Hyper-V's compatibility with your line-of-business software, evaluate your network and server architecture for optimal operation with virtualization solutions, help you in migrating to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and configuring Hyper-V, train your network management personnel to track and manage Hyper-V, provide expert consulting help for improving the protection of your virtual servers, establish and test business continuity processes that optimize system uptime, and provide continuing consulting and technical support including affordable online repair and turn-key Help Desk services.
If you are an information technology consultant with technical support experience, joining Progent and working for Progent's customers will expand your abilities through collaboration with Progent's team of motivated, world-class consultants. Progent's commitment to providing network expertise and computer help to small and midsize companies will give you the chance to work in depth with decision makers and add significantly to the growth of exciting companies. Also, Our virtual office network provides the most advanced technology for off-site support and wireless access to help you to deliver speedy fixes when you troubleshoot mission-critical issues.
Progent's Duo service plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have over a decade of background designing, implementing, optimizing and troubleshooting SCOM solutions and can provide companies of any size expert online or on-premises consulting services for SCOM 2012. Progent can help you to plan a topology for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that provides the performance and availability needed to watch over your IT resources efficiently, whether your datacenters are on-premises, in the cloud, or a mixed environment. Progent can also help you to install and set up System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs according to best practices for tracking network fabric as well as both Microsoft and third-party applications and services. Also, Progent can provide fast remote or on-premises troubleshooting to assist you to remediate critical problems uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
If your company is producing Linux-based applications on a network that includes Windows-based servers, PCs, and office applications, Progent can provide comprehensive information technology outsourcing that allows you to focus on your area of high-value expertise without the continual distraction of managing your company information system. By using smart server monitoring and by providing online and on-site support when your company needs it, Progent represents an economical solution for supporting an IT system that provides excellent reliability, protection, and efficiency. Progent's Linux developer support services include full-service information technology outsourcing, virtual infrastructure, online and on-premises support and repair, network monitoring, and Help Desk Call Center outsourcing.
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a fast and affordable way for small and medium-size businesses to get an objective assessment of the overall health of their network. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's world-class group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the configuration of your core infrastructure devices adhere to best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and deliver immediate benefits such as a cleaner and safer AD environment. Both versions also offer the long-term advantages of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management technology. These advantages can include easier management, improved compliance with data security standards, higher utilization of network assets, faster problem resolution, more reliable backup and restore, and increased uptime.
Progent's consultants can assist you to plan and implement a smooth move from onsite Active Directory to cloud-based Microsoft Entra ID (formerly called Azure Actve Directory) or to a hybrid solution that uses Microsoft Entra Domain Services and Microsoft Entra Connect to centralize identity and access management across onsite and cloud assets.
Progent's application experts offer advanced consulting, software programming, deployment help, and online classes for popular business applications covering vital areas including ERP, general accounting, management analytics, web commerce application development, and the MS Office family of business productivity solutions. As a Microsoft Partner with years of background delivering high-level consulting and troubleshooting support online, Progent can help clients throughout the United States to eliminate the lost productivity and fees associated with travel and on-site activity without compromising the high quality of consulting services.
Progent's certified security and compliance engineers can provide security evaluations of company-wide security to validate your organization's cybersecurity profile adherence to important international security standards. Progent offers subscription-based managed services for security monitoring and response, on-demand company-wide security audits, and focused cybersecurity assessments for specific areas of cybersecurity such as endpoints or cloud applications. Progent's qualified security engineers can also conduct comprehensive information security audits to evaluate your company's compliance with key international security standards including HIPAA, NIST, and ISO.
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line provides 24x7 access to a proven ransomware recovery consultant who can help your business to halt the spread of an ongoing ransomware attack. Call 800-462-8800
Progent's certified SQL Server 2019 experts can help you to assess the business case for upgrading to SQL Server 2019 and can deliver fast remote or on-premises contact with experts in solution planning and deployment, application programming, SQL Server management, and cybersecurity.
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers provide technical help and network consulting services for Exchange 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, and for the complete family of Microsoft Servers. Progent's migration, configuration, administration, and support services for Exchange Server include system design, deployment, project management, local and off-site troubleshooting, Help Desk outsourcing, expert security evaluation, and full-service network management outsourcing.
Server proliferation wreaks havoc on network budgets and management resources. Server consolidation through a virtual infrastructure offers lower TCO of hardware and quicker return on investment, more leveraged use of physical computers, simplified operations, enhanced system uptime, and easier manageability. Typical usage scenarios for virtual machines are hardware consolidation, low-cost hosts for line-of-business legacy applications running on obsolete operating systems, and inexpensive quarantine of program development or pilot testing systems from production systems.
Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 features a new architecture that improves cloud integration, supports popular handheld devices, permits single sign-on with Azure Active Directory, and strengthens security and compliance. Microsoft Dynamics 2015 R2 also streamlines reporting, includes nine new Workflows, expands the Web Client, and delivers more than 100 enhancements to its library of applications. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants have the broad knowledge and experience to address the many technical and business issues associated with upgrading to Microsoft Dynamics GP 2015 R2 and can assist your organization to carry out an efficient migration that will maximize the business value of your investment in this powerful product.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer in-depth support in implementing, using and troubleshooting all versions of Microsoft Project Server and can deliver a wide range of affordable online support services based on proven best practices to assist businesses of any size to receive all the advantages of this leading platform. Consulting support available from Progent include system design, software configuration and upgrades, setting up safe collaboration among local and offsite users, network optimization, and customized online training.
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) offers affordable national after-hours online help for computer systems powered by Windows and Cisco technology. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Premier service professionals offer 24x7 phone help and remote secure computer connection to isolate and repair network problems quickly and economically.
Progent can provide expert remote consulting services to help businesses integrate their information networks with leading public cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. Progent can help you to design and manage hybrid ecosystems that can include Windows and Linux systems and applications in both cloud-centric systems or in hybrid architectures that combine physical resources along with public cloud services. To assist you to integrate cloud services with networks, Progent can provide a variety of cloud migration services that include Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud planning and deployment services, Amazon Web Services cloud integration support, and Amazon Web Marketing Service programming and troubleshooting. Progent has over two decades of background providing advanced consulting services remotely, and Progent can make sure you successfully carry out your cloud migration initiatives quickly and within your budget.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows 11 consulting experts can provide a range of services for Windows 11 including cloud and hybrid solutions, mobile device management, teleworker access, security and compliance, automated provisioning, and Call Center support.