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.
Download Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management Datasheet
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Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management Service Datasheet. (PDF - 87 KB)
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 incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning technology to defend physical and virtual endpoint devices against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense. - ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's specific needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering. - ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS): Managed Backup and Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with advanced backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of management outsourcing plans that provide backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS services automate and track your backup processes and enable non-disruptive backup and rapid recovery of critical files, applications, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you recover from data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human error, ill-intentioned employees, or software bugs. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS product family include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda purpose-built storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to identify which of these 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 infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The hybrid architecture of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight 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 simple and inexpensive for smaller businesses to map, track, enhance and troubleshoot their connectivity appliances such as routers and switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers as well as servers, client computers and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) technology, ProSight WAN Watch ensures that infrastructure topology diagrams are always current, copies and manages the configuration of virtually all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when issues are detected. By automating time-consuming network management activities, WAN Watch can cut hours off common tasks such as making network diagrams, expanding your network, finding devices that need important updates, or isolating performance bottlenecks. Find out more details about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure monitoring and management consulting. - ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop remote monitoring managed service that incorporates state-of-the-art remote monitoring and management (RMM) technology to keep your IT system running efficiently by checking the health of critical computers that power your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is sent automatically to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent engineering consultant so all looming problems can be addressed before they have a chance to impact productivity. Learn more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services. - 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 key 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. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and technically risky configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services. - Active Protection Against Ransomware: AI-based Ransomware Identification and Remediation
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes next generation behavior machine learning technology to defend endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based AV tools. Progent ASM services protect local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ransomware defense and recovery services. - Progent's Outsourced/Shared Help Desk: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Call Desk services allow your information technology group to offload Support Desk services to Progent or split activity for support services seamlessly between your in-house support team and Progent's nationwide pool of IT service technicians, engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Co-managed Service Desk provides a transparent supplement to your in-house network support organization. User interaction with the Service Desk, delivery of technical assistance, problem escalation, trouble ticket generation and tracking, efficiency measurement, and management of the service database are consistent whether issues are taken care of by your internal IT support group, by Progent's team, or both. Learn more about Progent's outsourced/co-managed Call Center services. - Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving information system. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives and tasks that derive the highest business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management services. - ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: ID Confirmation, Endpoint Remediation, and Protected Single Sign-on (SSO)
Progent's Duo authentication managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several validation devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services.
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10 Benefits of Managed IT Services. (PDF - 710 KB)
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable way for small and medium-size organizations to obtain an objective evaluation of the overall health of their network. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management tools available, and overseen by Progent's world-class group of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the configuration of your essential network assets conform to best practices. The Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) system. Both versions also include a year of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management. Benefits can include easier management, better compliance with data security requirements, more efficient utilization of IT resources, faster problem resolution, more dependable backup and restore, and less downtime. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure assessment.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service based on a brief interview with a Progent backup/recovery consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to evaluate your organization's ability to counter ransomware or recover quickly following an attack by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, Snatch or Egregor. Progent will consult with you personally to collect information concerning your current cybersecurity posture and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then deliver a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply best practices to deploy an efficient AV and backup environment that reduces your exposure to a ransomware attack and meets your business needs. For details, visit 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.
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