ProSight Enhanced Security Protection Services and Ransomware DefenseProgent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP's solution delivers firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge prevention, detection, investigation, and response tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single web console.

The streamlined architecture of ProSight ESP, designed from the ground up for hybrid cloud and virtualized environments, significantly reduces the resource overhead and performance degradation common to alternative anti-malware products. This architecture also cuts equipment costs by improving virtual machine consolidation. ProSight ESP provides these benefits while at the same time delivering top-of-the-line protection against sophisticated threats like ransomware and file-less attacks.

ProSight ESP is a managed security service offered at a low monthly subscription fee with a simple per-system licensing model that covers any server or endpoint, physical or virtual, and that can be scaled to any size. Installation, troubleshooting and other incidental professional services are not included with the subscription. Operating systems supported include Windows, Linux, macOS, Apple iOS and Android. A single agent handles any combination of virtualization platforms, cloud providers, operating systems and physical devices. Centralized scanning allows you to distribute anti-malware compute resources across multiple security servers to maximize protection and performance.

Progent's security and virtualization experts can help you plan and implement a cost-effective deployment of ProSight ESP that makes sense for your company and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security requirements. Progent will help you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help you set up and test backup/disaster recovery processes such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware.

Key Features of ProSight Enhanced Security Protection
ProSight ESP uses the industry's leading unified anti-malware platform to provide multi-layered security for endpoints and Exchange mailboxes. Security featers include:

  • Protection in depth with multi-layer endpoint security
  • Anti-virus and anti-malware with advanced behavioral analysis
  • Zero-day threat protection
  • Application blacklisting and sandboxing
  • Two-way firewall for Windows systems
  • Integrates with VMware NSX to support the Software Defined Datacenter
  • Device and content control for Exchange Servers including spam, phishing, content and attachment filtering

Endpoint Security Services
Endpoints protected by ProSight ESP include Windows, Linux, and macOS servers, workstations, and notebooks as well as Apple iOS and Android smartphones and tablets. Windows-powered systems are provided enhanced protection via a two-way firewall, intrusion detection, web access control and filtering, data leakage protection, plus application and device control. Minimal system overhead improves performance compared to competing security platforms, and seamless integration with Microsoft Active Directory simplifies the process of protecting unmanaged desktops and servers. Advanced heuristics use behavior analysis to detect zero-day threats in real time, blocking attacks that easily evade traditional signature-based security products.

ProSight ESP's cloud-based Control Center provides a single console for deploying, enforcing and managing security policies for all your endpoints of all types in all locations.

ProSight ESP Unified Security Services

A web-based Control Center lets you manage security policies, run remote tasks, and create reports

Security Services for Virtualized Environments
ProSight ESP offers comprehensive protection for virtualized datacenters and uses advanced multi-layered caching technology to deliver high performance. Low-footprint security services improve server consolidation by as much as 30% compared to older-generation AV platforms by reducing memory and storage requirements and minimizing CPU and I/O activity. Virtual machines running Microsoft Windows and major Linux distributions are protected on most virtualization platforms including Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware, Citrix, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization with KVM, and Oracle. All virtual machines are protected against malware through file system, memory, process and registry scanning.

ProSight ESP's failover architecture for virtual security appliances eliminates single points of failure, ensuring high availability and consistent performance. Because VMs are protected by Security Servers, they need no local anti-malware scanning engines and definitions and are immune to AV storms.

In VMware environments, ProSight ESP takes advantage of NSX technology supporting the Software-Defined Data Center and integrates seamlessly with unlimited instances of VMware vCenter. This permits security management policy based on objects like resource pools, folders and distributed networking.

ProSight ESP Security for Virtualized Environments

ProSight ESP offers comprehensive, unified protection for virtualized datacenters

Security Services for Exchange
ProSight ESP integrates tightly with Microsoft Exchange Server to protect against threats like malware, spam and phishing. You can also filter emails that have attachments or content that do not comply with your company's security policies. ProSight ESP's web-based Control Center lets you create user groups so you can define different scanning and filtering policies for different categories of users such as sales vs. IT management. Among ProSight ESP's long list of configurable settings for Exchange is a domain IP check feature that can prevent spammers from spoofing the sender's email address and making an email appear as though it were from a trusted sender. You can also control options such as quarantine duration, whitelisting and blacklisting, filtering rules and rule prioritization, replacement text for scanned emails, max size of email attachment and content body, exclusions from filtering, and scan scheduling. ProSight ESP uses Microsoft's Exchange Web Services (EWS) to allow scanning the Exchange mailbox and public folder databases.

Download the ProSight Enhanced Security Protection Services Datasheet
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Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection Services Datasheet. (PDF - 91 KB)

Additional ProSight Managed Services Available from Progent
Besides ProSight Enhanced Security Protection, Progent's ProSight suite of network management services includes other low-cost, subscription-based managed services that let you outsource all the critical tasks associated with managing your information network such as backup/disaster recovery, infrastructure monitoring, email filtering, Virtual Machine hosting, and network documentation management. By establishing partnerships with leading technology providers, Progent is able to provide small and mid-size companies the advantages of the same cutting-edge remote network management tools used by some of the world's biggest companies. Managed services available from Progent include:

  • ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
    ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
    ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable end-to-end solution for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as 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 cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight DPS to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPPA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup.

  • ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
    ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

  • ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for smaller businesses to diagram, monitor, optimize and troubleshoot their connectivity hardware such as switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, endpoints and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are kept current, captures and manages the configuration information of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when potential issues are detected. By automating complex management and troubleshooting processes, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as making network diagrams, reconfiguring your network, locating devices that require critical updates, or isolating performance problems. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management consulting.

  • ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring and Management
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management technology to keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the health of vital assets that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alert is sent automatically to your designated IT management personnel and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so all potential issues can be addressed before they can disrupt your network. Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

  • ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
    Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By updating and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you’re planning enhancements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the information you require as soon as you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
How Progent Can Help You Build a Secure and Compliant Network with ProSight ESP
Progent's team of more than 100 seasoned IT consultants includes experts certified in every major discipline of information technology relevant to small and mid-size companies. This wide array of skills and depth of personnel allows Progent to act as your primary contact with network technology vendors and to provide virtually any IT service your business requires from occasional advice and troubleshooting to end-to-end network management outsourcing. Progent's strong roster of certified information security specialists can help you achieve and prove compliance with the strictest security standards associated with your industry and accelerate the time to value of your technology investment. In addition to the unified security solution provided by ProSight ESP, Progent offers other subscription-based managed services and value-priced service packages designed to deliver enterprise-class protection at a cost small-businesses can afford.

Progent offers expertise for all endpoints and virtual machines secured by ProSight Enhanced Security Protection. Support services available from Progent include Windows 10 integration, Linux configuration, macOS support, iPhone and iPad integration and management, Android setup and management, Windows Hyper-V support, VMware vCenter configuration, and Citrix XenServer support. Progent's certified Microsoft Exchange Server consultants can help you integrate ProSight ESP with Exchange to protect you from email-borne threats. Progent can provide online and onsite consulting and troubleshooting support from Cisco-certified CCIE consultants to help you maintain, tune or expand your network infrastructure. If you have deployed a network model that uses both on-premises and public cloud resources, Progent offers the expertise of Microsoft Azure consultants, Amazon AWS consulting experts, and Google Cloud integration consultants to assist you to integrate a robust and easy-to-manage hybrid network.

ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a fast and low-cost alternative for small and mid-size businesses to get an unbiased evaluation of the health of their IT system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's certified team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the deployment of your essential infrastructure assets adhere to industry leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and deliver immediate ROI like a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also come with one year of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include simpler management, improved compliance with government and industry security requirements, higher utilization of network assets, quicker troubleshooting, more reliable backup and recovery, and higher availability. See more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure assessment.

Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is a low-cost service based on a brief phone discussion with a Progent information assurance consultant. The interview is designed to help evaluate your organization's preparedness to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly after an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information concerning your current antivirus tools and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can follow industry best practices to create an efficient AV and backup/recovery system that reduces your exposure to ransomware and aligns with your business requirements. For details, refer to The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.

Other Affordable Service Packages Available from Progent
To complement Progent's ProSight suite of subscription-based managed services, Progent offers value-priced one-off service packages to help small and mid-size businesses to evaluate or demonstrate compliance with internal, government or industry security standards. These budget-friendly services include security vulnerability assessment and stealth penetration testing. Progent also offers advanced disaster recovery preparedness consulting and business continuity planning consulting to ensure that you can continue your crucial business processes quickly after a catastrophic event.

Contact Progent about ProSight Enhanced Security Protection Services
To learn more about how Progent can assist your business to outsource an affordable and comprehensive security solution with ProSight Enhanced Security Protection, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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