Disaster Recovery Consulting Support for
Small and Midsize Company Computer Networks:
ProSight Data Protection Services for Automated Cloud Backup
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SQL Server 2014 and Windows Server 2012 R2 Online Support Services
After Hours SQL Server 2014 Encryption Key Management Support
SQL Server 2014 includes major enhancements in key areas such as speed, availability, compliance, and cloud integration. SQL Server 2014 is the first release of SQL Server that incorporates in-memory technology that works seamlessly with all types of applications including Online Transaction Processing, enterprise data warehousing, and business analytics (BI). Progent's Microsoft-certified SQL Server 2014 consulting team can deliver efficient remote and on-premises services including planning, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, and application development expertise to help businesses of all sizes to achieve maximum business value from their SQL Server 2014 deployment.
Google Cloud VM Technology Professional
Consultant Google Cloud IAM
Progent can provide affordable remote and on-premises consulting to assist businesses of any size to migrate any part of their core network resources to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This can save time and equipment costs and enable the use of Google's cutting edge machine learning tools. Progent can assist you with every phase of Google Cloud Platform integration including needs analysis, readiness evaluation, system design, testing, configuration, centralized administration, performance tuning, licensing management, backup/restore mechanisms, and security and compliance.
Online Consulting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2013
Information Technology Consulting SPS 2016
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer organizations of any size consulting, technical support, and development services for Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an advanced platform that uses web technology for intelligently connecting people, teams and information. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers a central location for your employees or customers to connect to, organize, share and interact with useful data, documents, and applications and to interact with one another. Microsoft SharePoint enables faster and more intelligent decisions, more efficient sharing across groups and more economical business practices. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, workgroups and major tasks with the information they've created in a way that makes data easy to locate, retrieve and re-use. Progent's certified SharePoint consultants can assist you to maintain your current SharePoint ecosystem or upgrade to the current version of SharePoint.
Top Rated 8500 Wireless Controller On-site Support
Aironet 3700 Access Point Support and Setup
Progent's Cisco-certified Wi-Fi technology consultants can assist you to deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco Wi-Fi products including Cisco's Aironet and Meraki Wave 2 Wi-Fi access points (APs) as well as Cisco's Wireless Network Controllers.
Support and Integration System Center OpsMgr 2012
Information Technology Consulting Datacenter Monitoring
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than 10 years of background designing, deploying, optimizing and repairing Microsoft SCOM solutions and can provide organizations of any size expert online or onsite consulting support for System Center 2012 Operations Manager. Progent can assist you to plan a topology for Microsoft SCOM 2012 servers that provides the responsiveness and availability needed to monitor your IT resources efficiently, whether your infrastructure are onsite, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also help you to import and set up System Center 2012 Operations Manager management packs based on best practices for monitoring network fabric as well as Microsoft and third-party apps and services. Also, Progent can provide fast online or on-premises troubleshooting to help you to remediate critical issues detected by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
24-7 Help Desk Remote Technical Support
Help Desk Call Center Online Troubleshooting
The Help Desk Call Center service model adopted by Progent offers small companies an effective alternative to dependence on independent consultants by offering broad technical knowledge shared by numerous support groups, optional 24x7 access to emergency assistance, escalation capability to world-class experts for solving even the most difficult problems, service consistency and dependability, quick follow through overseen by veteran support administrators, a choice of easy-to-use ways for initiating support tasks, plus a high level of progress visibility made possible by ticket tracking and available via a web portal.
New Mexico Computer Outsourcing Consultants
Hawaii Outsource IT
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) provides nationwide extended hours remote troubleshooting for information systems powered by Windows and Cisco technology. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified support professionals provide after-hours telephone help and online direct network connection to isolate and resolve network problems rapidly and economically. The scope of IT experience represented by Progent's staff of country-wide support engineers makes it possible to escalate even the most difficult problems to appropriate experts as required. For critical issues, the Technical Response Center tries to answer your request for support within one hour.
Support Services Citrix Presentation Server
Citrix Virtual Application Delivery Specialists
Progent's Citrix-certified consultants can assist you to design, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot a virtual Windows application delivery and management solution based on Citrix XenApp. Progent's Cisco CCIE network engineers can show you how to enhance your network for delivering server and client-side applications, and Progent's datacenter management and support experts can assist you to manage and maintain an off-site datacenter that offers high availability, advanced protection, and fast disaster recovery.
Support Services Offsite Workforce Video Conferencing
24/7/365 Offsite Workforce Video Conferencing Onsite Technical Support
Progent can help small and medium-size organizations to implement and troubleshoot teleconferencing applications to allow their remote workforce to collaborate productively with fellow workers and clients.
24 Hour Computer Security Specialist Oracle database administration
Cisco Certified Experts Oracle 10g Applications Consultant
Progent can provide affordable remote access to an authorized Oracle DBA expert or an Oracle software developer. Progent can provide comprehensive database administration services for all versions of Oracle's RDBMS platform and can also assist you to plan, build, enhance, or fix Oracle applications based on SQL and PL/SQL stored procedure programming language. Progent also provides support for Data Guard and Streams replication tools and Oracle Database Resource Manage.
MCSE Expert Certified Dynamics GP Power BI Remote Consulting
Microsoft GP/Great Plains Configuration
Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains allows you to grow and manage your business better by delivering easy availability of strategic data and a fast return on investment. Microsoft Dynamics GP confers important business benefits including its ability to expand the presence of your organization, manage your accounting, automate financial operations, unify procedures across your business, improve inventory control, enhance order accuracy, grow sales and minimize lead-time, and maximize cash flow. Progent can show you how to configure and manage a reliable, safe server and network foundation to support Great Plains, and can provide experienced Microsoft Dynamics GP support professionals to make sure you reap the full benefits of your Microsoft Dynamics GP/Great Plains software.
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XenMotion Consultancy
Citrix Live Migration Technology Professional
Progent's Citrix-accredited engineers can help your company to evaluate the strategic benefits of XenServer as well as other Citrix products, and can assist you to plan, test, implement, troubleshoot, and maintain a Citrix XenServer solution. Progent can in addition analyze your current XenServer environment and show you how to optimize resource utilization, performance, security and compliance, availability, and recoverability.
Specialist SharePoint 2016 and OneDrive for Business
SharePoint 2016 Migration Online Support Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide affordable remote and onsite consulting expertise, software development, and debugging support for businesses of all sizes who intend to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from earlier releases of SharePoint.
Virtual Machine Manager 2016 IT Services
SCVMM 2016 and vSphere Consultant
Microsoft System Center 2016 Virtual Machine Manager is part of Microsoft's System Center 2016 suite of IT infrastructure monitoring and management products and is intended to provide a unified mechanism for deploying and managing virtualized datacenters across hybrid environments that can incorporate on-premises and hosted datacenters and Azure publics cloud services. Progent's SCVMM 2016 consultants can help organizations of all sizes with all facets of building, deploying, and maintaining a SCVMM 2016 solution. Progent can review your virtualization topology, show you how to upgrade smoothly from legacy releases of VMM, design processes for creating and installing VMs and VM hosts, design high-availability compute and storage clusters, integrate your datacenter resources with public cloud services, configure virtual switches, develop and refine PowerShell scripts, and assist you to evaluate the potential advantages of the latest technologies like Storage Spaces Direct and Shielded VMs. Progent's certified hypervisor experts can provide advanced Hyper-V consulting and VMware ESXi expertise.
Consulting Services Network Security Inventory
Internal Network Security Inventory Professional
Progent offers two ultra-affordable service packages designed to enable small companies to get a professional network security assessment from a premier security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, an engineer runs a comprehensive test of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to evaluate the risk to internal attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a secured external site.
Emergency Developer Amazon Marketplace Web Service development training
Open Now Amazon Marketplace Web Service development Development Firm
Amazon Marketplace Web Service (Amazon MWS) is an integrated library of APIs that enables Amazon sellers to improve the efficiency of their operations by automating crucial sales activities including listings, orders, payments, inbound and outbound fulfillment, and reports. By tapping into Amazon's vast online ecosystem and automating their sales, vendors can broaden their market, reduce their cost of sales, improve response time to customers, and increase their profits. Progent's Amazon Marketplace Web Service consultants can collaborate with your development team and provide application programming, workflow integration, project management support, and training to help you cut development time and expedite your ROI.
Technology Professional Printer firmware patch management
Smartphone patch management Specialists
Progent's managed services for software/firmware update management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your servers, endpoints scanners, infrastructure appliances like routers and Wi-Fi access points, and IoT devices such as alarms and health monitors.
Microsoft Word for Mac Network Consulting
Consultants Microsoft Office for Mac
Microsoft Mac Office allows Apple Macintosh users to run the world's most familiar business programs. Progent's Apple-certified Mac consultants can help you configure Mac Office on a multi-vendor network combining Apple OS X and Windows computers so that Macintosh users can access the latest capabilities of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage for Mac in order to share data and system resources with co-workers who use Microsoft Windows. Progent's engineers have experience with both Mac and Windows technology and can provide service for environments that combine Mac with Microsoft Windows computers with extensive resource sharing, or environments which carefully limit collaboration between Mac and Windows systems.
Exchange 2010 Upgrade Professionals
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Migration Technology Professional
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified network engineers can help you to determine the value of Microsoft Exchange 2010 for your company and can assist you to design and carry out an efficient upgrade to Exchange Server 2010 from Microsoft Exchange 2003 or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that will offer fast payback by improving your workers' efficiency, cutting the expense of hardware and support, simplifying management, and integrating your vital communications platforms.
.NET Blazor Integration Firm
24-Hour .NET Linux Contract Programming
Progent's application developers have worked for 20 years with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development system and can create or update .NET applications quickly and at low cost.
Wi-Fi RF Spectrum Analysis for Wi-Fi Online Troubleshooting
Emergency Wi-Fi Site Survey Integration
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey and predictive modeling help you to plan, deploy and debug a Wi-Fi network customized for your environment, offering your business a WLAN that delivers the coverage, performance, capacity, QoS, data protection, and roaming capability your company requires. Wireless site survey services from Progent include online predictive analysis for designing a wireless LAN and onsite site survey services for confirming, tuning, and debugging a functioning Wi-Fi network.
Consultants SCDPM 2012 and Azure Backup
SCDPM 2012 Upgrade Integration
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer remote or onsite expertise to assist organizations of any size to plan, deploy, administer, and troubleshoot a backup/recovery system built around System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager (SCDPM 2012). Progent can assist you to upgrade from earlier releases of SCDPM or from a different backup system, and Progent can optimize your SCDPM 2012 deployment for onsite, cloud-based, or hybrid environments. Progent can provide occasional help for fixing especially challenging issues, or full project management support. Progent's consultants can also help your business to incorporate SCDPM 2012 into an enterprise-class disaster recovery plan.
Cisco PIX to ASA upgrade Network Consultants
CCIE Certified Computer Engineer Firepower Services
Progent's Cisco-Premier network experts provide professional PIX Firewall support services covering design, implementation and support of Cisco firewall and Cisco security products. The Cisco PIX 500 Security Appliance Series of Cisco firewalls delivers strong user and software policy enforcement, mutlivector threat protection, and safe connectivity services. Extending from compact, plug-and-play desktop appliances for small businesses and home offices to scalable gigabit products, Cisco PIX firewalls offer a sensible level of protection, speed and availability for business networks of all sizes. PIX firewalls are build around a hardened, specially designed platform, PIX OS, avoiding potential OS-specific security vulnerabilities. The Cisco PIX Firewall has received ICSA Firewall and IPsec certification as well as Common Criteria EAL4 evaluation status. PIX firewalls provide multiple integrated security and connectivity services, including advanced application-aware firewall services, VoIP and multimedia security, multi-site and remote-access IPsec VPN connectivity, intelligent access services, and flexible administrative solutions. Progent's Cisco experts can help you choose and integrate any Cisco PIX 500 Series firewalls including the Cisco PIX 501 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506 Firewall, the Cisco PIX 506E, PIX 515 Firewalls, the PIX 515E Firewall, the Cisco PIX 520 Firewall, Cisco PIX 525 Firewalls and the Cisco PIX 535.
On-site Technical Support System Center 2016 and Windows 10 Integration
System Center 2016 and Exchange Integration Specialists
Microsoft System Center 2016 provides major improvements for managing hybrid cloud environments through advanced integration with Windows Server 2016 servers, Windows 10 clients; unified management of multi-OS networks that include Linux, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and expanded public and private cloud support such as tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Google Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Microsoft Operations Management Suite (OSM) for cloud-based analytics and reporting. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting team offers advanced online and onsite support for all components of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can assist your business to plan and install a new deployment of Microsoft System Center 2016, extend or tune your current one, migrate smoothly from a prior version of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
Engineer Phobos ransomware recovery
Snatch ransomware recovery Engineer
Progent's experienced ransomware recovery experts can help your business to reconstruct a network victimized by a ransomware attack such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, LockBit or Nephilim.
Fortinet NGFW Firewalls Remote Technical Support
Fortinet Firewalls Specialist
Fortinet next-generation firewalls are industry leaders in delivering best-in-class throughput for SSL/TLS inspection. Progent's Fortinet firewall consultants can help you to configure your Fortinet firewalls to protect your IT assets at the network perimeter, within the data center core, at branch locations, and in the cloud.
MySQL Developer Firm
MySQL Community Edition Education
Progent can provide cost-effective online access to an Oracle-certified MySQL DBA or software programmer and can help businesses of all sizes to integrate and maintain MySQL within a robust network infrastructure that provides high levels of performance, expandability, and security. Progent also has experience helping businesses port applications from an Oracle environment to MySQL.
Integration Firm .NET Visual Studio
.NET iOS Reporting
Progent's application developers have worked for two decades with .NET technologies and the Visual Studio development system and are able to build or modernize .NET apps rapidly and at low cost.
Microsoft Exchange Server Migration Specialist
24-7 Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Migration Services
Progent's Microsoft-certified engineers can deliver low-cost online and on-premises support to carry out your migration to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, produce thorough documentation of your upgraded email environment, educate your IT team and users to get them ramped up quickly on Exchange Server 2010, and provide ongoing management services and engineering help. Progent's consultants can also assist you to migrate from Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to Exchange Server 2013 or Exchange Server 2016.
Flexential Data Center Specialist
Flexential Data Center Consult
Progent utilizes the Flexential Tampa colocation center mainly to deliver private cloud hosting. Progent has a team of network experts based in the vicinity of Tampa, and Progent also offers remote support from Progent's countrywide team of Microsoft-certified experts, Cisco-certified CCIE network infrastructure engineers, ISSIP-CISSP-certified security experts, Hyper-V and VMware specialists, and senior DRBC planning experts. Progent can also help you to plan and implement a migration to the Flexential facility by providing services such as designing solution configuration, recommending hardware components, system setup and testing, debugging, setting up online management, and training your network support team.
Exchange 2007 IT Consulting
Network Consultants Exchange 2007
Progent's Microsoft certified support team can help you design and implement a smooth in-place Exchange Server 2007 migration strategy that minimizes productivity downtime, simplifies ongoing service requirements, and makes your Exchange 2007 Server easy to manage. For complex multiple server or multi-site migrations, Progent offers the knowledge and experience to complete your project rapidly and affordably. Progent's Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support, troubleshooting, and consulting services include expertise with the integration of third-party add-ons to Exchange 2007 Server and the creation of unified messaging implementations powered by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Outsourcing Multi-factor Authentication
Zero Trust Cybersecurity Computer Consulting
Progent's Duo services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices.
Integration Firm Xamarin
Immediate ASP.NET Core Contract Development
Progent's application experts have worked for 20 years with .NET tools and the Visual Studio development system and can build or modernize .NET applications quickly and at low cost.
24x7 Microsoft LCS Server Specialist
Microsoft LCS Server Instant Messaging Support Services
MS Office Communications Server provides IM and presence in a scalable, world-class package featuring enhanced protection, seamless compatibility with popular Microsoft products, an extendable, industry-standard development environment, and compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, SOX, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. The product offers lower costs and improved operational efficiencies, increased individual productivity, and stronger IP security. MS Office Communications Server has been replaced by Lync Server, which in turn has been revamped and renamed Skype for Business. Progent's Microsoft-certified IM and Presence consultants offer online and on-premises configuration support and troubleshooting services for your Office Communications Server environment and can help your organization to assess the advantages of migrating to Microsoft's Skype for Business. Progent can also help you to plan and execute an efficient upgrade that will add business value to your information network
CISM Certified Security Audit Services
Security Group Network Security Auditing
For small and midsize companies, computer security and information assurance and compliance can be too complex to master but too dangerous to overlook. The largest biggest enterprises have been breached, and the top cloud service providers have occasionally been knocked out. It seems like there's nowhere to hide. Progent makes it economical for small and midsize organizations to implement vital security tasks effectively by providing the benefit of billed time to the nearest minute without any minimum billing for online help. You can have the help of a world-class information consultant to deliver just the help you need whenever you require it. Progent's CISA, CISM, GIAC, CISSP and ISSAP certified security experts can help your business with any level of network security including security assessments, malware screening and recovery, spam and email content filtering, email data loss prevention, compliance reporting, and creating a comprehensive security plan.
Exchange 2013 Disk Availability Group Consultant Services
24x7 Support and Help Exchange 2013 Disaster Recovery
Microsoft Exchange 2013 includes major enhancements to the capabilities of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and introduces important new features as well as a redesigned architecture. These improvements favorably impact vital areas including manageability, high availability (HA), compliance, operational costs, collaboration, extensibility, performance, compatibility, and the user experience. Progent's Microsoft-certified Exchange Server 2013 consulting experts can assist your organization to understand the possible advantages of upgrading to Microsoft Exchange 2013, create an efficient test and deployment strategy, and train your IT staff to maintain your Exchange 2013 environment. Progent can also provide ongoing remote support and management services for Exchange Server 2013.
Urgent SCCM 2016 Network Engineer
System Center 2016 Business Continuity Configuration
System Center 2016 delivers major improvements in the management of hybrid cloud networks through advanced integration with Windows Server 2016, Windows 10; unified management of multi-OS environments that incorporate Linux, Hyper-V and VMware vSphere; and better cloud support including tighter integration with Microsoft Intune for Apple iPhone and Android smartphone management plus built-in integration with Operations Management Suite (OSM) for cloud-enhanced analytics. Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting staff can provide advanced online and onsite expertise for all elements of System Center 2016 including Operations Manager (SCOM), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Data Protection Manager (SCDPM), Orchestrator, and Service Manager. Progent can help you to plan and configure a new deployment of System Center 2016, expand or optimize an existing one, migrate efficiently from an earlier release of System Center, or troubleshoot your System Center environment.
24-Hour Computer Consultants Exchange 2013 Integration
Exchange 2013 Backup and Restore Online Help
Exchange Server 2013 includes significant improvements to the functionality of Exchange 2010 and introduces important innovations plus a redesigned structure. These enhancements favorably impact key facets of IT including manageability, availability, security, operational costs, teamwork, extensibility, performance, cross-version interoperability, and productivity. Progent's certified Exchange 2013 consulting professionals can help you evaluate the possible business benefits of migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2013, design an efficient test and deployment strategy, and educate your IT team to maintain your Microsoft Exchange 2013 environment. Progent also offers affordable remote support and management services for Exchange Server 2013.
24-7 Linux Network Monitoring Computer Consultants
Linux Network Monitoring Online Troubleshooting
Network monitoring ordinarily involves observing a system's resource usage in order to identify data traffic backups or troubleshoot hardware or software problems. Nagios and Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) are powerful, license-free network monitoring utilities that run under Linux or UNIX and can be deployed to monitor mixed-platform environments where Linux and Windows coexist. Progent's system integration engineers can help you use both these tools to optimize and repair your network. Progent's Linux consulting services provide small companies and programmers help with administering and supporting UNIX/Linux and Solaris systems that work with Windows-based technology.
Consultant Services DopplePaymer ransomware recovery
24x7x365 ransomware cleanup and file recovery Technology Professional
Progent's proven ransomware recovery experts can assist your business to restore a network victimized by a ransomware attack such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Netwalker, Snatch or Nephilim.
24/7 24x7 Network Configuration
Online Troubleshooting Microsoft System Center Operations Manager
Remote 24x7 monitoring, automated alerts, and actionable reports are vital to maintaining the proper operation of your network and eliminating unnecessary and costly downtime. Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) solutions have advanced to the point that businesses of all sizes can afford a degree of network stability that was once limited to large enterprises. Progent can provide a variety RMM options available as low-cost services created to help you to detect and resolve a most IT network problems before they get big enough to impact productivity.
NetDocuments and iPhones Consulting
NetDocs Document Management System Professional
NetDocuments (NetDocs) is a leading cloud-based document management system (DMS) designed for legal workflows. Progent offers remote guidance from NetDocuments experts who can assist your law firm to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, or debug a document management system solution based on NetDocs.
OS X and Cisco Security Computer Engineer
Mac Lion Security Online Support
Progent's CISM-certified security consultants can help you protect your Apple Mac environment through expert support offerings such as performing security audits, clean up after virus and denial of service penetrations, configuring firewalls, implementing safe off-site and mobile access, installing monitoring software for defense against viruses, spam, and malware, and developing a company-wide security plan appropriate for the specific objectives of your business information system.
Remote Support Services Microsoft 365 Portal
Hybrid Configuration Wizard Onsite Technical Support
Microsoft has made a strong effort to enable seamless hybrid networks that combine Microsoft 365 Exchange Online and local Exchange systems. This permits you to have some Exchange mailboxes located on your on-premises datacenter and other mailboxes resident on Microsoft 365. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can help you with any facet of designing, implementing and troubleshooting your hybrid Microsoft 365 Exchange network. Progent's Exchange specialists can deliver as-needed support to help you resolve challenging technical issues and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing or co-sourcing to make sure your hybrid Exchange initiative is carried out on time and on budget.
Consultant Services ISSAP Certified Cybersecurity Architecture
Professional ISSAP Certified Cybersecurity
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts, or Information Systems Security Architecture Professionals, are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification through rigorous testing and significant work with information security architecture. ISSAP consultants possess comprehensive knowledge of access control systems and techniques, phone system and network infrastructure protection, cryptography, requirements analysis, BCP and disaster recovery planning (DRP), and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.
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