Small business networks in the state of Alabama can depend on quick and economical online access to Progent's qualified network security engineers to help with the toughest security issues. The cost is affordable, billing is per minute, engagement is fast, and service is world class. Progent also offers assistance for long-term engagements that requires the expertise of senior security consultants with top industry credentials.

If your Alabama small business is away from major metropolitan neighborhoods such as Birmingham, Birmingham, Mobile, or Huntsville, the availability of local accredited network security consultants is often problematic when you have a security disaster. This can cause a loss of revenue for your business, angry clients, idle employees, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Premier security professional ready to provide assistance when you need it to get your network operating and salvage your data.

Progent can assist you in your efforts to defend your information system with services that ranges from network security audits to creating a company-wide security plan. Progent provides economical service to assist small and midsize companies to set up and maintain secure networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to complete the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist businesses to identify and isolate breached devices and protect undamaged resources from being compromised.

If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security solution that uses the services and infrastructure of top data security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified engineers are available online or on site to offer a range of emergency or project-based network security services such as:

If your business has an urgent requirement for computer security support, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help.

Progent's engineers can deliver world-class support in vital fields of network security including auditing, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security planning.

Security Audits
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing computer security environment by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via sophisticated software tools and proven techniques. Progent's experience in this service saves you consulting fees and assures an accurate portrayal of weaknesses. The information your business gains can form the basis of a security strategy that can permit your network to operate safely and respond rapidly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Audits
Progent offers expertise in the application of security testing products such as Microsoft's MBSA and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably performing a set of programmed system testing checks to identify possible security weaknesses. Progent has broad knowledge of other network auditing products such as NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities like Metasploit, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can show you how to build protection into your company processes, configure auditing tools, define and deploy a secure network environment, and suggest procedures to maximize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to help you set up a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn additional information about Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory Service Packages for Small Companies
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory service bundles designed to allow small businesses to get a professional security evaluation from an accredited security engineer. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers an extensive test of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a network scan from an authorized computer inside your company firewall to assess vulnerabilities to inside threats. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a secured remote location. The project is directed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who generates a document that details and analyzes the information captured by the security scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your internal and perimeter network to help you expose, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth penetration checking is a key component of any successful network security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are properly set up and consistently checked. Find out more on Progent's stealth security penetration analysis support services.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's background in network security technology includes extensive field work with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology from multiple companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Fortinet. Progent offers the services of engineers with key networking accreditations such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new installations. After Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can assist your company to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls or migrate efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your business to plan, deploy, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn more details about ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Engineering Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection technology offer a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to help your business to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that fit best with your company goals. Read more details about Progent's Support Services for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Products.

Support Services for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent offers small and medium size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies including WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security strategy and select appropriate products from a variety of suppliers to support your security objectives while staying within your budget limits.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based machine learning tools to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight ASM protects local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the entire threat progression including filtering, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a single console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry information security standards. Progent will assist you define and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive security attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable end-to-end solution for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). For a low monthly rate, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical files, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver advanced expertise to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide centralized management and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into a single hosting provider. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, find and protect information about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time wasted trying to find critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for gathering and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Planning
Every business ought to have a carefully thought out security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a collection of mechanisms designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your company's network security personnel to assess the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the damage, record the event, and get the IT network running as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's certified IS security engineers can to assist your company to perform a full risk evaluation and create a computer security strategy to implement security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing assaults and threats.

CISM Accredited Security Engineering Services
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization describes the core capabilities and global standards of performance that information security professionals are required to learn. CISM gives executive management the confidence that those who have qualified for their CISM certification have the background and knowledge to provide effective security management and support consulting. Progent offers the support of CISM Premier security professionals to help companies with:

  • IS Security Processes
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Implementation Management
  • Network Security Management
  • Recovery Management
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISM Certified Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Support
CISSP recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded certification accreditation in the area of data security defined by ISO 17024. Progent offers access to of security experts who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your organization in a variety security fields including:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Infrastructure and Models
  • Access Control Solutions and Methodology
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Learn additional information about Progent's CISSP Accredited Cybersecurity Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier IT architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification through thorough testing and extensive work with information security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven skill in the more challenging requirements of information security architecture bounded by the broader field of information system security expertise required for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Systems and Techniques
  • Telecommunications and Network Infrastructure Protection
  • Data Encryption Options
  • Requirements Analysis and Security Criteria
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Hardware Security
Learn additional information about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Professionals.

CISA Certified Security Auditing Engineering Support
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is a prestigious achievement that signifies expertise in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit specialists are available to assist your business in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Services
  • Information Technology Administration
  • Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle Planning
  • Information Technology Support
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Business Continuity Planning
Find out the details about Progent's CISA Certified Security Auditing Consulting Support.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, implement, and maintain IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to create and carry out a business continuity strategy based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC IT risk management specialists can provide a range of risk identification services such as:

  • Gather information and review documentation to identify major risk scenarios
  • Inventory statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies related to your network to determine their possible impact on your business objectives
  • Identify potential threats for your operational processes to help in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct training to make sure your organization appreciate IT risk so they can contribute to your risk management program
  • Match identified risk vectors to related business procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk appetite with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement
Read more information about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Qualified Network Security Engineering Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to validate the knowledge of computer security professionals. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited security consultant possesses the skills appropriate to deliver support in vital areas of network, data, and application program security. GIAC certifications are acknowledged by companies and government organizations all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit specialists can assist your IT organization with:

  • Auditing IT Infrastructure
  • Security Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web Application Security
  • SIEM solutions
Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with a Security Engineer
To see how to contact a certified Progent security consultant for online or onsite help in Alabama, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Help.

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