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 (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend physical and virtual endpoint devices against new malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery. - ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security and Exchange Email Filtering
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, workstations, mobile devices, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's specific requirements and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that call for urgent action. Progent can also assist your company to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a potentially disastrous security attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent'sProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering. - ProSight Data Protection Services: Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with advanced backup software providers to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your backup operations and allow non-disruptive backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, apps, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you recover from data loss caused by equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, human mistakes, malicious insiders, or application glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection Services portfolio include ProSight Ataro VM Backup, ProSight Ataro Office 365 Total Backup, ProSight ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent consultant can assist you to identify which of these managed backup 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 filtering and email encryption service that incorporates the technology of top data security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device 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 keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect 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 Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and affordable for smaller organizations to map, track, enhance and troubleshoot their connectivity hardware like routers, firewalls, and load balancers plus servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating state-of-the-art Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch makes sure that infrastructure topology diagrams are always updated, captures and manages the configuration of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and generates notices when potential issues are detected. By automating complex management activities, WAN Watch can knock hours off ordinary tasks like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, finding appliances that need important software patches, or identifying the cause of performance problems. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management services. - ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Monitoring and Management
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent’s server and desktop monitoring managed service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to help keep your network running efficiently by tracking the health of vital computers that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers an issue, an alert is transmitted automatically to your specified IT management staff and your Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be resolved before they can disrupt productivity. Learn more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring consulting. - ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the OS software, and the apps. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services. - Active Protection Against Ransomware: Machine Learning-based Ransomware Detection and Cleanup
Progent's Active Defense Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection (EPP) managed service that incorporates cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. Progent ASM services safeguard on-premises and cloud resources and offers a single platform to address the complete threat progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Find out more about Progent's ransomware protection and cleanup services. - Progent's Outsourced/Shared Call Desk: Call Center Managed Services
Progent's Support Center services allow your information technology staff to offload Support Desk services to Progent or divide activity for Help Desk services seamlessly between your in-house network support resources and Progent's extensive roster of IT service technicians, engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Shared Help Desk Service provides a smooth supplement to your corporate support group. Client interaction with the Help Desk, delivery of technical assistance, problem escalation, ticket generation and tracking, efficiency measurement, and management of the support database are cohesive regardless of whether incidents are taken care of by your internal IT support resources, by Progent's team, or by a combination. Find out more about Progent's outsourced/shared Call Center services. - Progent's Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and reliability of your computer environment, Progent's patch management services permit your IT staff to focus on line-of-business initiatives and activities that derive the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management support services. - ProSight Duo Two-Factor Authentication: Identity Validation, Endpoint Policy Enforcement, and Secure Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services.
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ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable alternative for small and mid-size businesses to get an objective evaluation of the overall health of their information system. Powered by a selection of the leading remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and overseen by Progent's certified team of IT experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how closely the configuration of your essential infrastructure devices adhere to leading practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a low, one-time cost and provide immediate benefits like a more manageable Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also come with one year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include simpler management, improved compliance with information security standards, higher utilization of IT assets, faster troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits network infrastructure review.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service built around a brief phone interview with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is intended to help assess your organization's ability either to counter ransomware or recover quickly following an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, Mailto (aka Netwalker), Phobos, Snatch or Nephilim. Progent will work with you personally to gather information concerning your current security profile and backup/recovery system, and Progent will then produce a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report detailing how you can follow industry best practices to deploy an efficient security and backup/recovery environment that minimizes your vulnerability to a ransomware attack and meets your company's requirements. For details, visit The 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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