Security Bulletins
Information on Security Threats, Updates, and Best Practices
Security Bulletins
This page contains current information on security threats, updates, and best practices. If you have questions or need immediate help with network security issues, call Progent's Technical Response Center (24x7 support) at
Conflict in Ukraine Presages a Major Uptick in Cyberattacks
Progent has received this Critical Security Alert from SentinelOne Labs:
With the increased tensions in the world the US Government and many Security Agencies are warning of a possible uptick in Cyberattacks in the coming days and weeks.
Progent is a partner with SentinelOne, who have developed the premier software available to protect and defend against cyberattacks. Anyone not on a proper Endpoint Detection and Response/Managed Detection and Response (EDR/MDR) platform is at risk.
For support or more information:
Contact Progent TRC at TRC@progent.com or call 800-993-9400 or Darrin.Johnson@Progent.com
Critical Apache Log4j2 Vulnerability
A critical flaw has been identified in Log4j, a Java library for logging error messages in applications. This exploit is currently the most high-profile security vulnerability on the internet and has been assessed a severity score of 10 out of 10 by the cybersecurity industry's rating system, known as Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). If you need assistance determining whether your network is impacted by this vulnerability or if you require help patching affected applications and devices, refer to Apache Log4j2 Vulnerability Mitigation.
24x7 Ransomware Hotline
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help you complete the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged resources from being compromised. If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Ransomware Recovery Services
Progent now offers a selection of ransomware protection, response and recovery services that include network-wide vulnerability evaluations, continuous monitoring, ransomware filtering based on advanced heuristics, settlement negotiations, forensics, and rapid restoration led by Progent's veteran group of mitigation consultants. For more details about Progent's ransomware defense and recovery services, visit Ransomware recovery consulting.
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Altaro VM Backup with Exchange IT Services
Hornetsecurity Altaro VM Backup and VMware Consultant Services
Altaro VM Backup software from Hornetsecurity offers small organizations a dependable and budget-friendly platform for backing up and recovering Hyper-V and VMware-based VMs. Altaro VM Backup can be used for on-premises, offsite, distributed, and cloud-hosted environments and also supports cost-effective backup to Azure Block Blob storage. Top capabilities include industry-leading inline deduplication to reduce backup storage requirements, Continuous Data Protection (CDP) with backup intervals as little as five minutes for minimizing your exposure to data loss, advanced encryption, granular recovery capability for individual files and emails, support for Windows Server Cluster Shared Volumes and for vCenter for handling larger environments, and the ability to leverage Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service to back up online VMs without downtime. Progent is a certified Altaro partner and can provide a wide array of consulting services to help you to plan, deploy, manage and troubleshoot a backup/restore solution based on Altaro VM Backup.
Job Opening Home Based Microsoft Consulting
24x7 Benefits for Home Based Network Engineer Openings
Progent's compensation structure is built on contribution, so similar to working as a freelance contractor, your income is directly tied to your generated revenue. Certain Progent support staff focus on quality of life and elect to consult at a more relaxed pace, utilizing our self-determined schedule to pursue personal enthusiasms such as mountain biking, motorcycle racing, snow boarding, surfing, vacations, or spending free time with relatives and acquaintances. Others take advantage of the opportunity to earn major dollars through hard work and extended hours. Progent completely encourages either end of the spectrum plus everything in the middle.
Integration Catalyst 9117 Access Point
Catalyst 9120AX Access Point Troubleshooting
Progent's Cisco-certified Catalyst 802.11ax Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Access Point consultants offer affordable remote and on-premises help for Catalyst next-generation Wi-Fi 6 wireless access points.
24-7 Consulting SharePoint Server 2013
SharePoint Server Specialists
Progent's Microsoft-certified experts offer businesses of any size consulting, troubleshooting, and development services for SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise platform that utilizes web technology for intelligently connecting people, teams and information. Microsoft SharePoint provides a central location for your workers or customers to access, manage, distribute and interact with relevant data, documents, and software and to communicate with one another. Microsoft SharePoint allows quicker and more intelligent decisions, more efficient sharing across groups and more economical business practices. Windows SharePoint Services join workers, clients, workgroups and projects with the knowledge they've created in a manner that makes data easy to locate, download and re-use. Progent's SharePoint experts can assist you to support your existing SharePoint solution or migrate to the latest release of SharePoint Server or to SharePoint Online.
After Hours Microsoft Certified Expert Consultant Services Enterprise Project Management
IT Development Project Consultancy
For enterprise project management assistance, Progent offers the services of senior IT professionals with decades of experience in IT management, application development, and process engineering for organizations from Big 4 companies to dot-com startups to government agencies. These high-level IT managers offer project management skills to assist enterprise clients adhere to leading practices to ensure that development or deployment projects are successfully completed on time and within budget.
Microsoft Exchange Upgrade Consulting
24x7x365 Upgrade Consulting Exchange 2000 Upgrade
Progent is among the most qualified network support companies for creating email and messaging solutions based on Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small and mid-size businesses get all the advantages of Microsoft Exchange 2000 for typical situations such as updating from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, moving from an ISP-based or POP3 e-mail environment, and using managed services for your Exchange 2000 administration.
Consulting VMware Site Recovery Manager Failback
Urgent VMware Site Recovery Manager Testing Professional
VMware's popular Site Recovery Manager (SRM) is an extension to VMware vCenter that lets you specify, automate and verify a repeatable runbook for recovering applications and services rapidly following a breakdown. Site Recovery Manager provides centrally managed and automated recovery, application mobility, plus transparent site relocation, failback and site re-protect. Site Recovery Manager also supports non-disruptive testing for disaster recovery, upgrades and fixes and can generate audit reports to confirm full service recovery, validate Service Level Agreements and prove DR compliance. Progent can provide the skills of a VCDX certified VMware Site Recovery Manager consulting expert to help your organization to plan, deploy, test and maintain a disaster recovery solution powered by VMware SRM.
Exchange Server 2003 IT Consultant
Exchange 2003 Server Upgrade Online Support
Progent's Microsoft Premier engineers can provide expert support for enterprise-wide implementations of Microsoft Exchange. Progent's consultants can show you how to prepare for multi-site Exchange rollouts or upgrades and can supply local personnel to help enterprises with installations of Microsoft Exchange in the or any area covered by Progent's engineers.
Excel 2016 Support Firms
Office Web App Security Consultant
Progent's Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 experts can assist businesses to incorporate Office desktop and Microsoft 365 apps including Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Access, Visio and OneNote into a seamless solution that offers quick return on investment and enables better business results. Progent can help you to integrate Office or Microsoft 365 apps with one another and with additional core Microsoft platforms including SharePoint, Exchange Server and Microsoft SQL Server deployed locally or in the cloud. Progent can also assist you to resolve compatibility issues with various versions of Office desktop and can provide live online training to individual users or teams.
Consultants SharePoint 2016 Taxonomy
Technology Consulting Services SharePoint 2016 Management
Progent's Microsoft-certified SharePoint consultants offer affordable online and on-premises expertise, application development, and debugging support for organizations of all sizes who want to upgrade to SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online from prior versions of SharePoint.
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