Interview with Progent's Darrin Johnson and The Oregonian:
Ransomware attacks increasing in Oregon, nationwide, FBI says
Progent's Darrin Johnson Talks to The Oregonian Newspaper about the Growing Ransomware Threat
Ransomware represents a growing threat to vital U.S. industries, private companies, and public agencies. The Oregonian newspaper of Portland OR talked to Progent's cybersecurity expert Darrin Johnson about the dangers ransomware poses to companies of any size and explains why it is so difficult to stop the bad actors even after they have been identified.
The Oregonian originally published this article June 30, 2022. The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland OR and has published daily since 1861. It is the oldest continuously published newspaper on the U.S. West Coast and is a prime source of news for the Pacific Northwest.
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SharePoint Server Network Engineer
SharePoint 2003 Online Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide organizations of any size consulting, troubleshooting, and development expertise for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an advanced collaboration platform that uses web technology for intelligently connecting people, teams and information. Microsoft SharePoint provides a central location for your employees or customers to connect to, manage, share and interact with relevant information, files, and applications and to interact with other people. SharePoint enables quicker and better decisions, more effective access across groups and more streamlined business practices. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, teams and projects with the data they've developed in a manner that makes data easy to locate, retrieve and re-use. Progent's SharePoint experts can assist you to manage your existing SharePoint environment or upgrade to the current release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
Virtual Office Microsoft Consultant Careers
Virtual Office Microsoft Consulting Job Opening
Progent believes that a well designed and executed information system can be a pivotal factor for enabling any firm's growth, and we apply this belief in our corporate system environment. We have built a zero-downtime virtual office infrastructure that allows Progent's in-house consultants and authorized contractors to deliver rapid and effective service, collaborate closely on sophisticated projects, and gain from career and personal growth from acting as part of an exciting company ethos of self motivation and freedom.
Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 On-site Support
Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 Remote Support
Secure Application Publishing with ISA Server 2006 allows greater protection of intranet applications while enabling increased efficiency by making these resources available to authorized remote or mobile users. Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 can guard business applications, services, and data across all network layers with application-layer filtering and powerful publishing wizards. Progent's Microsoft-premier Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can help you plan, deploy, configure, and maintain Internet Security and Acceleration Server on your system so that your business achieves a highly functional and affordable combination of security, productivity, and speed.
Juniper Junos BGT IT Services
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Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you utilize Junos OS and the Junos platform of network management applications to configure, administer, and monitor Junos-powered devices; migrate to the Junos OS operating system from other Juniper software platforms such as ScreenOS; and upgrade your Juniper routers, switches, and gateways to the latest version of Junos OS.
Altaro VM Backup Troubleshooting Support Outsourcing
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Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity provides small and mid-size businesses a reliable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-powered virtual machines. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, multi-site, and cloud environments and also supports cost-effective cloud backup to Microsoft Azure Block Blob storage. Headline capabilities include state-of-the-art inline deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection with backup intervals as little as five minutes for minimizing your Recovery Point Objective (RPO), military-grade encryption, item-level restore options for specific files and emails, support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes and for vCenter for managing large-scale environments, and the ability to leverage Microsoft VSS technology to back up online VMs with zero downtime. Progent is an Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of consulting services to assist you to design, install, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore system based on Altaro VM Backup software.
Configuration Supplemental Service Desk Cost Savings
Onsite Technical Support Supplemental Call Center Cost Savings
Progent's Help Desk outsourcing and co-sourcing services help organizations to reduce costs and enhance productivity.
MCSE Expert Certified Consultant Cost Implementation Support
Consultant Prices Installation
Progent's pricing model is to charge for phone service and on-site help by the minute. Consequently, you pay only for delivered services. Progent does not demand a more expensive rate for after-hours or emergency service, and within California or in areas where Progent offers on-site support, Progent does not bill for travel time except for emergency calls where on-site time is less than 4 hours. Also, Progent imposes no service activation charge and requires no monthly commitment for services provided during normal business hours. Many support organizations demand large minimum payments or charge for every quarter hour or longer. Progent's one-minute granularity does away with large invoices for quick repairs so you will not be tempted to allow simple problems to stay unaddressed.
Colocation Support and Integration
Data Center Specialist
Progent's colocation center IT services are designed for companies with equipment located at Internet Data Centers or data center colocation hosting facilities and requiring timely in-person service at the colocation site plus remote support from Microsoft and Cisco Premier experts. Progent provides a complete range of data center and IDC and colocation consulting services such as network topology analysis, Windows and UNIX server integration and maintenance, troubleshooting for server and communications infrastructure, design and deployment of fault tolerant systems, architecting and deploying layered security defenses, firewall integration and support, configuring load balancing solutions, and creating high-availability server and storage clustering configurations.
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Microsoft Messenger for Mac Specialists
Microsoft Mac Office allows Mac users to run the world's most familiar office productivity programs. Progent's Apple-certified Mac experts can help you configure Mac Office on a multi-vendor environment that incorporates Apple OS X and Windows-powered platforms so that Macintosh users can take advantage of the new features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share data and network resources with co-workers who use Microsoft Windows. Progent's consultants have experience with both Mac and Windows technology and can provide service for environments that combine Mac with Windows systems with extensive resource sharing, or environments which intentionally limit sharing between Mac and Windows users.
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