Company networks in Illinois now have prompt and affordable remote technical support from Progent's certified network security engineers to help with critical security issues. Rates are competitive, charges are per minute, engagement is immediate, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for long-term engagements that requires the services of seasoned security consultants with top security certifications.

In case your Illinois network is situated far from larger metropolitan neighborhoods including Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, or Naperville, the availability of nearby accredited security experts may be limited when you have an urgent situation. This can cause a drop in revenue for your business, angry customers, idle employees, and distracted executives. By utilizing Progent's online services, you have access to a Certified security professional who can deliver help when you have to have it to get your network operating and restore your information.

Progent can help you in a variety of ways in your initiatives to protect your information system with support ranging from security checks to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to help small and midsize companies to design and maintain protected networks based on Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers based on UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist you to carry out the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can assist you to locate and isolate breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24-hour Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Overview of Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can show you how to outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to provide advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a first line of defense and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a deeper level of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also enable Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's certified consultants are available online or on site to provide a range of urgent or project-based computer security services which include:

  • Perform comprehensive security audits
  • Recover rapidly after serious security breaches
  • Configure and troubleshoot firewalls
  • Implement safe solutions for offsite and mobile access
  • Deploy effective applications for automatic protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Help create a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 monitoring
  • Provide outsourced Help Desk Support
  • Help Develop a practical data backup and restore solution based on Microsoft DPM backup capability
If your network has an immediate need for computer security help, go to Progent's Urgent Online Technical Help.

Progent's consultants offer advanced support in vital fields of computer security that include auditing, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

System Security Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the effectiveness of your existing computer security implementation through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on sophisticated utilities and tested procedures. Progent's experience in this service saves you money and assures a detailed portrayal of system vulnerability. The information your business gains can form the foundation of a security plan that can allow your information system to run dependably and react rapidly to new risks.

Automated Vulnerability Assessment
Progent offers consulting in the use of security evaluation utilities such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and LANguard from GFI for affordably performing a set of automatic network auditing checks to identify possible security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad experience with additional security auditing tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus utilities like Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can help you to make sense of audit reports and respond appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your company operations, install auditing software, plan and deploy a secure system architecture, and recommend procedures to maximize the security of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are able to help you configure a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and business applications, and integrate VPN. Find out additional information about Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory Scanning Packages for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation packages intended to allow small businesses to receive an objective security assessment from an accredited security expert. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert administers a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential weaknesses in the security profile you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Scan, a security expert executes a network scan from a secure computer within your firewall to uncover vulnerabilities to internal assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a secured remote site. The process is overseen by a consultant who has earned high-level security credentials and who generates a report that summarizes and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and suggests practical remediation if called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Security Assessment Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network so you can identify, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any serious network security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively checked. Learn additional information on Progent's network penetration testing support services.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security solutions encompasses in-depth familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) products from multiple companies including Cisco, Microsoft, CheckPoint and Watch Guard. Progent offers the services of consultants with key networking accreditations such as CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services deliver substantially more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 security appliances for all new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of Cisco ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide enhanced capabilities including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate 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 assist your business to design, configure, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Read more details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Network Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's security and remote connection technology represent a comprehensive line of manageable security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align best with your company objectives. Learn more details concerning Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security and VPN Appliances.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent offers small and mid-size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security plan and select the right products from a variety of vendors to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your spending limits.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight portfolio of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services offer ultra-affordable in-depth security for physical and virtual servers, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization experts can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's specific requirements and that helps you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized organizations a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup activities and allows fast recovery of vital files, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or damaged as a result of component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you protect, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's cloud backup specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical information. Find out more about ProSight DPS 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 deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the OS platforms, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to an alternate hosting solution without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSLs or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Security Planning
Any business ought to develop a thoroughly considered security strategy that includes both pre-attack procedures and response plans. The pre-attack plan is a set of procedures intended to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack plan helps your network security personnel to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the network, record the event, and get business functions running as quickly as feasible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants can to assist your company to run a full vulnerability assessment and create a computer security plan to establish security processes and mechanisms to minimize ongoing attacks and dangers.

CISM Certified System Security Engineering Services
The CISM committee defines the core capabilities and international standards of skill that information security professionals are required to master. CISM gives business management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM certification have the background and capability to deliver effective security management and support services. Progent can provide the support of CISM Certified security consultants to help businesses with:

  • Information Security Governance
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Information Security Program Management
  • Network Security Administration
  • Response Management
Read additional details concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Services.

CISSP Certified Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP certification recognizes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has granted certification accreditation in the field of data protection stipulated by ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have qualified for CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified professional to help your company in a variety security areas such as:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Control Solutions and Processes
  • Applications Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Cryptography Technology
  • Telecom, Network and WAN Security
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out more information about Progent's CISSP-certified Network Security Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture professionals are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP status through rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security architecture. The ISSAP credential represents demonstrated mastery in the most challenging demands of IS security architecture within the broader scope of information security knowledge needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecom and System Infrastructure Security
  • Cryptography Solutions
  • Requirements Analysis and Security Standards
  • BCP and DRP
  • Site Security
Find out additional information about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure Information System Architecture Support Expertise.

CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Assistance
The CISA accreditation is an important qualification that indicates mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by ANSI, the CISA credential has consultants undergo a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified IS security audit engineers can help your IT organization in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Process
  • Information Technology Governance
  • Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • IT Support
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Business Continuity Planning
Find out more information about Progent's CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Engineering Services.

CRISC Consultants
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) program was initiated by ISACA to validate an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system control mechanisms to reduce risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to create and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk tolerance, business goals, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk management consultants can provide a range of risk identification services including:

  • Collect data and review documentation to evaluate major vulnerabilities
  • Identify statutory, industry, and contractual requirements and company policies related to your network to determine their potential impact on your strategic objectives
  • Identify possible threats for your business workflows to assist in analyzing your enterprise risk
  • Develop a risk awareness program and provide training to ensure your organization appreciate information system risk so they can assist with your risk control process
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to your associated operational processes to help assign risk responsibility
  • Validate risk appetite with your senior leadership and major stakeholders to make sure they align
Read the details concerning Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts.

GIAC Qualified Network Security Engineering Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to validate the skill of network security professionals. GIAC's mission is to assure that a certified security consultant has the knowledge appropriate to deliver services in critical categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the United States NSA. Progent's GIAC IS security audit experts can help your IT organization with:

Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Contact a Certified Progent Security Specialist
To find out how to access a Progent security consultant for online or on-premises assistance in Illinois, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Network Help.

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