Small business computer networks in the state of Alaska can depend on quick and affordable online access to Progent's certified network security support specialists to resolve the toughest security problems. The cost is affordable, billing is per minute, engagement is quick, and support is world class. Progent also provides help for long-term engagements that demand the services of senior security consultants with high-level security certifications.

In case your Alaska office is located away from more populated urban areas like Anchorage, Juneau, or Fairbanks, contact with local qualified security consultants may be problematic during a crisis. This can cause a drop in productivity for your company, upset clients, idle employees, and defocused management. By calling Progent's remote support, you can get in touch with a Premier security engineer who can offer help whenever you require it to keep your network on line and recover your data.

Progent can assist you in a variety of ways in your efforts to defend your IT environment with support services that can range from security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical service to assist businesses of all sizes to design and manage protected networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple handhelds or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to take the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help businesses to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your system has been breached by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can show you how to outsource spam blocking and defense against email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to deliver centralized control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email traffic that originates and ends inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified professionals are available remotely or on premises to offer a variety of urgent or project-based computer security services including:

  • Perform comprehensive network security audits
  • Recuperate quickly after virus and worm attacks
  • Set up effective firewalls
  • Implement safe techniques for remote and mobile access
  • Deploy advanced utilities for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Develop a company-wide security plan with round-the-clock monitoring
  • Provide outsourced Call Center Support
  • Develop a practical data backup and business continuity plan based on Data Protection Manager backup technology
If your business has an urgent need for IT security support, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support.

Progent's consultants offer world-class support in vital facets of computer protection that include analysis, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security planning.

Security Evaluation
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the effectiveness of your existing network security implementation by performing comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this testing saves your company time and money and assures an accurate portrayal of system vulnerability. The information your IT organization gains can make up the basis of a network protection plan that will permit your information system to run safely and respond rapidly to new risks.

Automated Network Security Analysis
Progent provides expertise in the use of security auditing utilities including MBSA and LANguard from GFI for economically running a set of programmed system auditing scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has extensive knowledge of other security analysis tools including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus tools such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and respond effectively.

Progent can help you design protection into your business processes, configure scanning tools, plan and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are available to help you configure a firewall, design secure remote connectivity to email and data, and install virtual private network. Learn additional information concerning Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory Packages for Small Companies
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory packages designed to enable small companies to receive an independent security evaluation from a qualified security engineer. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, an engineer administers a comprehensive test of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to uncover possible risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert executes a network scan from a secure machine within your firewall to determine vulnerabilities to inside threats. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a secured remote location. The process is overseen by a consultant with top security accreditations and who produces a report that details and interprets the data collected by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation where appropriate.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver repeated, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Network Penetration Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any serious IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can perform extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly set up and consistently checked. Find out more about Progent's stealth penetration testing support services.

Firewalls and VPN Expertise
Progent's background in network security technology includes extensive field work with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products offered by multiple vendors including Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of consultants with key networking accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. After Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls can be configured to enable Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can assist you to manage your legacy PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help your business to design, deploy, tune, administer and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and debugging support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Expertise
Cisco's network security and remote access technology provide a comprehensive range of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line includes switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your business to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your business objectives. Read more details concerning Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and VPN Products.

Support Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can help you design a comprehensive security strategy and choose the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while staying within your budget restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight line of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis tools to guard endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-matching anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including protection, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools incorporated within one agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove compliance with government and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly 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 filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, applications and virtual machines that have become lost or corrupted due to component failures, software bugs, disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can help you to restore your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of inspection for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support experts. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can eliminate up to half of time spent searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Find out more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Security Planning
Every business should have a carefully considered security strategy that incorporates both pre-attack procedures and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a collection of mechanisms that help to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy helps your company's IT security personnel to assess the impact caused by an attack, repair the system, document the event, and get the IT network operational as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security engineers can to help your company to perform a comprehensive risk assessment and define a computer security plan to implement security policies and controls to mitigate future assaults and threats.

CISM Certified System Security Support Assistance
The CISM organization describes the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of skill that IT security professionals are required to learn. It provides executive management the confidence that those who have earned their CISM certification possess the background and knowledge to deliver effective security management and support services. Progent can provide the services of CISM Certified security consultants to assist companies with:

  • IS Security Governance
  • Risk Management
  • Information Security Program Management
  • Network Security Management
  • Recovery Management
Learn more information about Progent's CISM Information Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
CISSP recognizes mastery of a global standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the area of data security under ISO 17024. Progent offers the services of security consultants who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your organization in a variety security fields such as:

  • Security Management Practices
  • Security Architecture and Paradigms
  • Access Management Solutions and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Cryptography Technology
  • Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Learn more information concerning Progent's CISSP Accredited Network Security Support Professionals.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture professionals are consultants who have earned ISSAP status through rigorous examination and extensive experience with information security design. The ISSAP credential indicates proven mastery in the most in-depth demands of information security architecture bounded by the broader scope of IS security knowledge required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can help your company with all phases of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Techniques
  • Phone System and Network Security
  • Data Encryption Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Standards
  • Business Continuity Planning and DRP
  • Site Security
Find out more information about Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Professionals.

CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) credential is a recognized qualification that signifies mastery in IS security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants undergo an extensive test given by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified information security audit consultants are available to help your IT organization in the areas of:

  • Information Systems Audit Process
  • Information Technology Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle
  • Information Technology Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Data Assets
  • Business Continuity Planning
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISA Qualified Information System Security Auditing Consulting Expertise.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's ability to design, implement, and maintain information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity plan based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation experts offer a range of risk identification services such as:

  • Collect information and study documentation to evaluate significant vulnerabilities
  • Identify statutory, industry, and business requirements and company standards related to your information system to determine their possible impact on your strategic goals
  • Identify potential threats for your business workflows to assist in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to ensure your stakeholders appreciate IS risk so they can contribute to your risk management process
  • Match key risk scenarios to related operational processes to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk tolerance with executive leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they match
Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Accredited Network Security Consulting Support
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified security consultant possesses the skills needed to provide services in important areas of system, information, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified IS security audit engineers can help your IT organization in the areas of:

Find out more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Get in Touch with a Progent Security Expert
To find out how you can get in touch with a certified Progent security engineer for remote or on-premises help in Alaska, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Help.

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