Network Support for Mid-size Businesses
ProSight IT Asset Management
Create and Share IT Asset Documentation
Introduction to ProSight IT Asset Management
By managing your IT documentation efficiently, you can cut wasted network support time in half. In a crisis, fast access to vital information can mean the difference between a minor glitch and major downtime. ProSight IT Asset Management is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, locate, retrieve and protect information about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information and synchronizes with popular remote monitoring and management (RMM) and professional services automation (PSA) platforms.
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service utilizes a world-class IT documentation management platform and is available for a low, fixed monthly fee to Progent's IT consulting clients. Information you can organize and share with ProSight IT Asset Management includes network-attached devices such as servers, workstations, mobile devices, firewalls, switches, wireless access points, SAN storage or any other device with or without an IP address. You can capture information about most network devices automatically by synchronizing with RMM software such as ProSight LAN Watch. Other IT assets you can document with ProSight IT Asset Management include SSL certificates, domains, and licenses so you can be alerted automatically about impending expirations. You can also import and share knowledge base articles or documents describing standard procedures such as how to onboard a new employee or how to set up a SQL Server. In addition, ProSight IT Asset Management features powerful password management capabilities.
How ProSight IT Asset Management Works
ProSight IT Asset Management organizes your IT documentation according to Core Assets, Procedures, and Apps and Services. Combined, these provide a panoramic view of your IT ecosystem. There are six types of Core Assets: Configurations, Locations, Contacts, Domain Tracker, SSL Tracker, and Passwords. All these asset types have fixed attributes to ensure maximum compatibility with RMM tools for automatic capture and synchronization. Configurations include network-attached devices and endpoints with IP addresses (e.g., servers, desktops, switches, access points) as well as devices with no IP address such as displays and UPS devices. SSL Tracker captures certificates, queries them over time, tracks changes and, like Domain Tracker, automatically notifies you of approaching expirations. The Password management feature stores passwords in the cloud with SOC-2 compliant security. Passwords can be audited, versioned, and quickly found when you need them.
Procedures in the ProSight IT Asset Management control panel are listed under Documents and include unstructured procedural and reference documentation such as standard operating procedures (SOPs), processes and How-To's. You can import documents from multiple sources and build up restricted-access and public knowledge bases that can take the load off your IT support resources and optimize productivity by enabling employee self service.
Apps and Services are so-called Flexible Assets and are described in structured documentation covering network infrastructure, applications and services. ProSight IT Asset Management includes more than 600 templates, based on industry best practices, for documenting procedures. You also have the option of designing your own documentation structure. Examples of flexible assets are Active Directory, line-of-business applications, email, backup, LAN and WAN. You can upload any type of file, including executables, into your procedural and reference documentation.
By establishing associations between related items documented in ProSight IT Asset Management, changes in one document automatically ripple through to linked ones. This provides instant and continuously improving insights into your IT infrastructure. Associating related items can save considerable time when you perform common tasks such as determining the devices a terminated employee had access to, identifying all remaining employees with access to those devices, and alerting them of a password change.
Top Features of ProSight IT Asset Management
ProSight IT Asset Management includes a continually expanding array of features that provide enterprise-class IT documentation management at an ultra-affordable price. Key features include:
- Ability to Track All IT Assets: Asset tracking engine allows you to specify and enforce documentation standards to match your needs for tracking and linking IT assets including complex elements like virtualization and wireless
- Advanced Password Management: Password management system features next-generation password vault and management, policy enforcement, fast access for authorized personnel, and extensive auditing
- Relationship Mapping: Associate related elements of your IT infrastructure so changes in one document automatically ripple through to linked ones, providing instant and continuously improving insights and eliminating tedious and costly research
- Domain and SSL Tracking: Domain tracker engine continuously protects your domain names against expiration and DNS changes. Any changes are tracked as revisions, and you can configure upcoming expirations to send alerts.
- SOC 2 Compliant Security: Granular access control, version management and detailed activity logs. Information hierarchy based on roles, users and groups.
- Documentation Collaboration: Selective and secure document sharing with colleagues, partners and third parties
- Immutable Audit Trail: View any documentation info that is accessed, created, revised or removed. Easily restore deleted or missing items
- Version Control with Rollback: Automatic versioning and easy rollback capability includes passwords, devices, domains, SSL certificates, and custom asset types
- Deep Search: Search across all classes of IT assets and quickly find crucial information like serial numbers, IP addresses, passwords, procedures, or business applications.
Small and mid-size businesses have notoriously poor documentation about their IT infrastructure. Vital information about things like passwords, certificate expirations, and IP addresses plus key procedures like backup/recovery may be buried in emails, scrawled on sticky notes, locked in someone's head, or randomly distributed among spread sheets, SharePoint sites and Word documents. Worse, crucial IT documentation is rarely kept up to date and is usually impossible to correlate automatically. If an employee leaves, vital information about IT infrastructure may be lost or compromised. If a switch needs to be upgraded or replaced, it can take precious time to determine which applications and users may be impacted. The penalty for poor IT documentation is wasted time. Up to 20% of IT support time is spent hunting for the information needed to resolve issues.
ProSight IT Asset Management service solves the infrastructure documentation problem the way major enterprises do: by using a world-class IT documentation management platform tightly integrated with world class PSA and RMM systems. This combination provides a high level of standardization, which enforces best practices, and time-saving automation. The bottom line is your bottom line. You get fast ROI, typically within a few months, by minimizing network repair time, maximizing network productivity, and bolstering network security. Thorough and accurate IT documentation also saves direct IT support costs by enabling more self service for end users and by allowing Tier 1 technicians to perform much of the work that would otherwise require a Tier 2 engineer.
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Other ProSight Managed Services Offered by Progent
Besides ProSight IT Asset Management, Progent's ProSight suite of IT management services includes other value-priced offerings that cover key facets of your information network 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 incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior analysis tools to defend physical and virtual endpoints against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape legacy signature-based AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to manage the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery. - ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Exchange Filtering
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver ultra-affordable multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device control, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent accessible from a single console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that require urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering. - ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service. ProSight DPS services manage and monitor your backup processes and allow transparent backup and fast recovery of critical files, applications, system images, plus virtual machines. ProSight DPS lets your business recover from data loss caused by hardware failures, natural calamities, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS product family include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup based on 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 IT environment. - ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering and Data Leakage Protection
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to provide complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a further level of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises security gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection. - ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to map, track, enhance and debug their networking hardware such as routers and switches, firewalls, and access points as well as servers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art RMM technology, ProSight WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are always updated, copies and displays the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and generates notices when problems are detected. By automating tedious network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary tasks like network mapping, expanding your network, finding appliances that need critical software patches, or resolving performance bottlenecks. Find out more 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 (RMM) technology to keep your IT system operating efficiently by tracking the state of critical computers that drive your information system. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alarm is transmitted immediately to your specified IT management staff and your assigned Progent consultant so that any looming problems can be addressed before they have a chance to disrupt productivity. Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring services. - ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services. - Progent Active Protection Against Ransomware: AI-based Ransomware Detection and Remediation
Progent's Active Protection Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection service that utilizes cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-matching AV products. Progent Active Security Monitoring services protect local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to manage the complete threat progression including filtering, detection, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new threats. Read more about Progent's ransomware protection and recovery services. - Outsourced/Co-managed Service Desk: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Call Center services allow your information technology group to outsource Call Center services to Progent or divide responsibilities for Service Desk support seamlessly between your internal network support staff and Progent's extensive pool of IT service technicians, engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's Shared Service Desk offers a seamless extension of your in-house IT support resources. Client interaction with the Service Desk, delivery of support services, escalation, ticket creation and updates, performance measurement, and maintenance of the support database are cohesive regardless of whether issues are taken care of by your corporate IT support staff, by Progent, or both. Learn 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 all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic IT network. Besides optimizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services permit your IT staff to focus on more strategic projects and tasks that derive the highest business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services. - ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Identity Validation, Endpoint Remediation, and Secure Single Sign-on (SSO)
Progent's Duo authentication service plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services. - ProSight Reporting: In-depth Reporting for Ticketing and Network Monitoring Applications
ProSight Reporting is an expanding suite of real-time management reporting plug-ins designed to work with the industry's top ticketing and remote network monitoring platforms including ConnectWise Manage, ConnectWise Automate, Customer Thermometer, Auvik, and SentinelOne. ProSight Reporting uses Microsoft Graph and utilizes color coding to highlight and contextualize key issues such as spotty support follow-up or endpoints with missing patches. By exposing ticketing or network health problems clearly and in near-real time, ProSight Reporting improves network value, lowers management hassle, and saves money. For details, see ProSight Reporting for ticketing and network monitoring applications.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable alternative for small and mid-size businesses to obtain an unbiased evaluation of the overall health of their network. Powered by some of the top remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools available, and supervised by Progent's certified team of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the deployment of your core infrastructure assets conform to industry leading practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide immediate ROI such as a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also come with a year of state-of-the-art remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include lower-cost management, better compliance with government and industry security standards, higher utilization of network resources, faster problem resolution, more reliable backup and restore, and less downtime. Read more information about ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report is an affordable service based on a phone interview with a Progent information assurance expert. The fact-finding interview is designed to help evaluate your company's ability to defend against ransomware or recover rapidly after an attack by a ransomware variant like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), DopplePaymer, LockBit or Nephilim. Progent will consult with you directly to collect information about your existing AV defense and backup procedures, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can apply industry best practices to create a cost-effective security and backup system that minimizes your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and meets your company's needs. For additional information, visit Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Additional Value-priced Services Packages Available from Progent
Specially priced service bundles available from Progent to help you achieve and prove compliance with regulatory and industry security standards include security vulnerability assessment and stealth penetration testing. Progent also offers expert disaster recovery planning consulting and business continuity planning consulting to help ensure you can return to operations quickly in case of a catastrophic failure due to a natural disaster, fire, cyber attack, human error, equipment breakdown, or any other foreseeable disruptive event.
How to Get Started with Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management Service
To find out more details 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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