Remote Network Management for Small and Midsize Businesses
ProSight IT Asset Management
Create and Share IT Asset Documentation
Good IT documentation management can reduce network support time by 50%. Making network infrastructure information available quickly and easily can turn a potential crisis into a minor glitch. ProSight IT Asset Management is a an IT documentation management service that simplifies the processes of generating, updating, organizing, sharing, and securing essential information about your network infrastructure, applications, and management procedures. A cloud-based service available for a low monthly subscription, ProSight IT Asset Management features a central location for storing and sharing all documents associated with managing and supporting your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs), self-service videos, network topology diagrams and password logs. ProSight IT Asset Management can also automate data collection such as IP addresses and serial numbers and integrates with leading professional services automation platforms.
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is built on a leading network documentation management engine and is offered to Progent's customers on a subscription bases at a low monthly price. Information you can capture and share using ProSight IT Asset Management includes data about devices like servers, workstations, firewalls, routers, switches, access points, SAN and NAS storage, smartphones, or any other networked device. You can automate data collection about most network-attached devices by synchronizing with remote monitoring and management platforms like ProSight LAN Watch. Additional IT assets you can documents include SSL certificates and domain licenses so you can be warned when an expiration is approaching. You can also gather, organize and share technical articles or documents about standard operating procedures like how to onboard or offboard employees or how to deploy a SQL Server. Another valuable feature of ProSight IT Asset Management is a secure password management tool that saves time and enhances security and compliance.
What ProSight IT Asset Management Does
ProSight IT Asset Management divides documented infrastructure assets into primary groups consisting of Core Assets, Procedures, and Apps and Services. Together, these document groups provide a comprehensive view of your network environment. Core Assets are categorized as Configurations, Locations, Contacts, Domain Tracker, SSL Tracker, and Passwords. These standardized asset categories have pre-assigned and fixed attribute classes to maximize compatibility with RMM platforms for automated data collection and real-time synchronization. Configurations include networked devices and endpoints with and without IP addresses (e.g., servers and switches with, displays and UPS units without). SSL Tracker collects certificate information, tracks them over time, monitors changes, and automatically alerts you when a certificate is about to expire. Domain Tracker works similarly with domain names. The Password vault archives general and embedded passwords to the cloud using SOC-2 compliant security. Stored passwords can be audited, versioned, and easily located by authorized personnel.
Procedures, which are listed under Documents in the ProSight IT Asset Management control panel, include unstructured procedural and reference documents like standard operating procedures, self-service instructions, and knowledge-base articles and videos. You can download documents from a wide variety of sources and control fine-grain access restrictions.
Apps and Services are considered Flexible Assets and are described in structured documentation concerned with IT infrastructure, apps and services. Over 600 out-of-the-box templates are included with ProSight IT Asset Management services. These templates document various common procedures based on leading practices and can be restructured to suit your requirements. You can also add your own documents. Examples of flexible assets include Active Directory, line-of-business software, email, backup/restore, Wi-Fi, LAN and WAN. You can import any type of file into your Apps and Services documentation.
By creating relationships among associated IT assets documented in ProSight IT Asset Management, updates to one document carry over automatically to linked documents. This makes it possible to keep vast amounts of documentation up to date without the tedious and error-prone process of manual revisions. An example of using linked documents to save management time would be determining all the network devices a terminated employee had permissions to access, identifying all the current employees authorized to access those same devices, and informing them about password changes.
Major Features of ProSight IT Asset Management
ProSight IT Asset Management includes a growing list of capabilities that provide an advanced IT documentation management solution at a small-business price. Important capabilities include:
- Tracking for All Network Assets: The asset tracking engine lets you define and enforce documentation structures to meet your requirements for tracking and associating network assets.
- Comprehensive Password Management: Password management capabilities feature secure password storage, management, and policy enforcement, quick access for authorized users, and full auditing.
- Cross-document Relationship Linking: You can establish relationships among network components so modifications to an item in one document automatically cause changes to related items in other documents, saving time and avoiding costly errors.
- SSL and Domain Tracking and Alerts: The SSL certificate tracker and Domain tracker engines generate alerts to warn about impending expirations. The Domain tracker also protects against DNS changes. All changes are tracked as revisions.
- SOC 2 Compliant Security: Security features include granular access control, version management, and extensive activity logging. The Information hierarchy is based on roles, users and groups.
- Collaboration and Sharing: Granular access control supports secure document sharing.
- Permanent Audit Trail: You can review which documentation data has been accessed, generated, modified or deleted, and you can restore deleted or missing items.
- Version Control with Instant Rollback: Automatic versioning and rollback applies to passwords, network devices, domains, SSL certificates, and custom asset types
- System-wide Search: You can search across all classes of IT assets and promptly locate critical data such as serial and model numbers, IP addresses, passwords, procedures, or business apps.
Smaller companies often allow network documentation to manage itself. As a result, when a crisis occurs you have to scramble to come up with vital information such as passwords, network diagrams, certificate and domain expirations, IP addresses, or the model numbers and patch levels of network appliances. Key data may be stashed in emails, sticky notes, an ex-employee's head, or stored in spread sheets or Word documents. To make matters worse, IT documentation you manage to find may not have been kept completely up to date and therefore has to be confirmed. Once you manage to dig up information you think is accurate, it can be difficult to correlate it with other information in a meaningful way. If the host of a virtual machine suddenly needs to be replaced, it can take costly time to figure out which applications, services and users may be affected. Poor IT documentation wastes time. Up to 20% of IT support time is reportedly spent trying to find information needed to fix the underlying problem.
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Other ProSight Managed Services Offered by Progent
Besides ProSight IT Asset Management, Progent's ProSight portfolio of IT management services includes other value-priced offerings that allow you to outsource key facets of network management including security, backup/recovery, and email content filtering. By partnering with leading-edge IT management technology companies, Progent can provide small and mid-size businesses the advantages of the same modern solutions deployed by global enterprises to monitor and manage their networks.
Managed services available from Progent include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend physical and virtual endpoints against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including protection, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Read more about Progent'sProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense. - ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent can also assist you to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent'sProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering. - ProSight Data Protection Services: Backup and Recovery Services
Progent has worked with leading backup technology companies to produce ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast restoration of vital files/folders, applications, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss caused by hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks like ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight Data Protection Services portfolio include ProSight DPS Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to determine which of these fully managed backup services are most appropriate for your network. - ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized management and comprehensive security for all your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection. - ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized organizations to map, monitor, reconfigure and troubleshoot their networking hardware like switches, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, endpoints and other devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology maps are always current, captures and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices on your network, monitors performance, and sends alerts when issues are discovered. By automating complex network management activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, locating devices that need critical updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management consulting. - ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring managed service that incorporates state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management techniques to help keep your IT system operating at peak levels by tracking the state of vital assets that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alert is transmitted automatically to your designated IT personnel and your Progent engineering consultant so any potential issues can be resolved before they can disrupt your network. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring services. - ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services. - Active Protection Against Ransomware: Machine Learning-based Ransomware Detection and Cleanup
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates next generation behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV tools. Progent ASM services protect on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ransomware defense and cleanup services. - Progent's Outsourced/Shared Help Center: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Support Desk services allow your IT team to offload Call Center services to Progent or divide responsibilities for support services transparently between your internal network support resources and Progent's extensive roster of IT support engineers and subject matter experts (SBEs). Progent's Shared Help Desk Service provides a smooth extension of your internal support group. Client access to the Service Desk, provision of support services, issue escalation, ticket generation and updates, efficiency measurement, and management of the support database are consistent regardless of whether incidents are taken care of by your core support staff, by Progent, or both. Find out more about Progent's outsourced/co-managed Service Desk services. - Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking updates to your ever-evolving information network. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services. - ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: ID Confirmation, Endpoint Remediation, and Secure Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this added means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a quick and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an unbiased assessment of the health of their IT system. Based on a selection of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms available, and supervised by Progent's certified team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how closely the deployment of your essential network devices adhere to leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and provide instant benefits like a cleaner Active Directory system. Both also include one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Benefits can include easier network management, improved compliance with information security regulations, more efficient utilization of IT resources, quicker problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and less downtime. See more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service built around a brief discussion with a Progent information assurance expert. The interview is intended to evaluate your company's preparedness either to defend against ransomware or recover quickly following an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Conti or Egregor. Progent will work with you personally to gather information about your existing security profile and backup system, and Progent will then produce a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to deploy a cost-effective security and backup environment that reduces your exposure to a ransomware attack and aligns with your company's requirements. For more information, visit Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report.
Additional Value-priced Services Packages Available from Progent
Specially priced service packages offered by Progent to help you achieve and prove compliance with government and industry security requirements include security vulnerability testing and stealth penetration testing. Progent also offers disaster recovery planning consulting and business continuity planning consulting to help ensure you can resume operations quickly after a foreseeable catastrophe.
How to Get Started with Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management Service
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