ProSight IT Asset Documentation Management ConsultingGood 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.

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Core network assets are documented with standardized attribute fields that can be populated automatically

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.

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You can customize documentation for flexible network assets and include images, videos and web links

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.
Enterprise-class Service for Small and Midsize Businesses
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.

ProSight IT Asset Management service solves the infrastructure documentation management problem the same way large organizations do it, by using a unified platform integrated with advanced PSA and RMM tools. This solution enforces best practices and utilizes automation to reduce the volume of trouble tickets and resolve the remaining technical issues quickly. By reducing IT support time and increasing network availability and productivity, return on investment (ROI) can be a matter of months. Sound IT documentation cuts IT support costs further by enabling effective self service for end users and by making it easier for Tier 1 technicians to provide services that would otherwise require Tier 2 support.

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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 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 legacy signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense.

  • ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
    ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will assist you define and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

  • ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery
    ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly price, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or corrupted due to hardware failures, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-promises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class support to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards such as HIPPA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

  • ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
    ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

  • ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Management
    ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for smaller organizations to map out, monitor, optimize and debug their networking hardware such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, printers, endpoints and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network diagrams are kept current, captures and manages the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and sends alerts when potential issues are detected. By automating tedious network management activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary tasks like making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding appliances that need important updates, or identifying the cause of performance issues. Find out more details about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure monitoring and management services.

  • ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
    ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that uses state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management techniques to help keep your network running efficiently by tracking the state of vital assets that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects an issue, an alert is sent immediately to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so any looming issues can be resolved before they can impact your network. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.

  • ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
    With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hosting environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a fast and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an unbiased evaluation of the health of their information system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your core network assets conform to industry leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver instant benefits like a more manageable Active Directory system. Both also include a year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include lower-cost network management, improved compliance with government and industry security regulations, higher utilization of IT assets, quicker problem resolution, more reliable backup and restore, and increased uptime. Read more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure review.

The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service centered on a phone interview with a Progent backup/recovery expert. The interview is intended to assess your company's ability either to block ransomware or recover quickly after an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Locky. Progent will consult with you personally to collect information concerning your existing AV defense and backup procedures, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to build a cost-effective AV and backup/recovery environment that reduces your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and meets your company's requirements. For more information, see The 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
To learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service and to learn how Progent can help your company to simplify your IT documentation management, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

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