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.
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.
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 LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management techniques to keep your network operating at peak levels by checking the state of critical computers that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch detects an issue, an alert is transmitted immediately to your specified IT management personnel and your Progent engineering consultant so that all looming issues can be resolved before they can disrupt your network. Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring services.
- ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM: Unified RMM Solution for Networks, Servers, and Desktops
ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM software offers a centralized, cloud-based platform for monitoring and managing your network, server, and desktop devices by providing tools for streamlining common tedious jobs. These can include health checking, patch management, automated remediation, endpoint setup, backup and restore, anti-virus defense, remote access, built-in and custom scripts, asset inventory, endpoint status reports, and debugging assistance. When ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM spots a serious issue, it transmits an alert to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent consultant so that potential issues can be fixed before they impact your network. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch with NinjaOne RMM server and desktop remote monitoring consulting.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to diagram, monitor, reconfigure and debug their networking hardware such as routers and switches, firewalls, and access points plus servers, printers, client computers and other devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are kept current, captures and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, tracks performance, and generates notices when problems are discovered. By automating tedious management and troubleshooting activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding devices that need important updates, or identifying the cause of performance issues. Learn more details about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management consulting.
- ProSight Reporting: In-depth Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Platforms
ProSight Reporting is a growing family of real-time management reporting plug-ins designed to work with the industry's top ticketing and remote network monitoring programs such as ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting incorporates Microsoft Graph and features color coding to surface and contextualize critical issues such as spotty support follow-through or endpoints with out-of-date AVs. By exposing ticketing or network health problems concisely and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting enhances productivity, reduces management overhead, and saves money. For more information, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring platforms.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Backup and Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with leading backup software providers to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of management offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS products manage and monitor your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business avoid data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural calamities, fire, malware like ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS portfolio include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent expert can assist you to identify which of these fully managed services are best suited for your network.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to provide centralized control and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.
- ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: ID Confirmation, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Protected Single Sign-on (SSO)
Progent's Duo authentication services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.
- Outsourced/Co-managed Service Desk: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Help Center services permit your IT group to offload Call Center services to Progent or split activity for Help Desk services seamlessly between your internal support team and Progent's extensive roster of certified IT support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Shared Service Desk offers a smooth extension of your core support resources. Client access to the Help Desk, provision of technical assistance, escalation, ticket generation and updates, efficiency measurement, and maintenance of the support database are consistent whether issues are resolved by your corporate IT support organization, by Progent's team, or both. Learn more about Progent's outsourced/shared Call Desk services.
- Active Protection Against Ransomware: Machine Learning-based Ransomware Identification and Remediation
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoints and physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV tools. Progent ASM services safeguard local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ransomware defense and cleanup services.
- Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides optimizing the protection and functionality of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Read more about Progent's patch management support services.
- ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's network support experts. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hardware solution without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to guard physical and virtual endpoints against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the entire threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Microsoft Exchange Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, device management, and web filtering via cutting-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection standards. Progent will assist you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to install and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange filtering.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a fast and affordable alternative for small and mid-size businesses to get an objective assessment of the overall health of their information system. Powered by some of the leading remote monitoring and management (RMM) platforms in the industry, and overseen by Progent's world-class group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the deployment of your core network assets conform to best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both also include one year of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management (RMM). Benefits can include simpler network management, better compliance with government and industry security requirements, higher utilization of network resources, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and less downtime. See more about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service built around a phone discussion with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is designed to evaluate your organization's ability to defend against ransomware or recover quickly after an assault by a ransomware strain such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, LockBit or Egregor. Progent will work with you directly to collect information about your current AV defense and backup system, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can follow industry best practices to create a cost-effective security and backup environment that minimizes your exposure to ransomware and aligns with your business requirements. For additional information, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
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.