Company IT networks in the state of Iowa can now get fast and economical remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security experts to fix urgent security problems. The cost is reasonable, charges are per minute, engagement is fast, and service is unbeatable. Progent also provides help for complex engagements that requires the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top industry certifications.

If your Iowa network is far from more populated metropolitan areas such as Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, or Sioux City, help from nearby certified security professionals may be problematic when there's an emergency. This can result in lost productivity for your business, upset clients, idle workers, and defocused executives. By calling Progent, you can get in touch with a Premier security engineer who can provide assistance when you need it to keep your information system on line and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in your efforts to guard your information system with support that can range from network security checks to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers economical support to help small and midsize companies to set up and manage safe IT environments based on Windows and Cisco products and that can include servers and desktops based on UNIX or Linux operating systems as well as BYOD users with Apple iOS iPhones and iPads or Google Android or Windows Phone devices.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to complete the urgent first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist you to locate and isolate breached devices and protect clean resources from being penetrated.

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

Overview of Progent's Security Services
Progent can help you outsource spam filtering and protection from email-borne assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading data security companies to provide web-based control and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks most unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter.

Progent's security engineers are available remotely or on site to provide a range of urgent or project-based IT security services including:

  • Perform comprehensive network security audits
  • Recuperate quickly after virus and worm attacks
  • Set up hardware and software firewalls
  • Implement secure methods for remote and mobile access
  • Deploy advanced solutions for protection against viruses, spam and directory harvest attacks
  • Develop a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 network monitoring
  • Provide outsourced Help Desk Services
  • Help Develop an effective network backup and business continuity solution built around Data Protection Manager (DPM) automated backup capability
If your company has an urgent need for IT security support, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's security experts can deliver world-class support in key facets of computer protection that include analysis, firewall/VPN support, and high-level security consulting.

System Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the vulnerability of your existing network security implementation through comprehensive remote automated analysis via sophisticated utilities and proven techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves you money and assures an objective picture of system vulnerability. The knowledge your company gains can make up the basis of a security plan that can allow your information system to operate dependably and react quickly to future threats.

Automated Vulnerability Audits
Progent provides expertise in the application of security analysis packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably running a variety of automatic system auditing checks to identify potential security gaps. Progent has broad knowledge of other network analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye, plus utilities such as Metasploit, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your business operations, install auditing tools, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and suggest policies to maximize the security of your network. Progent's security consultants are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Find out more on Progent's network security assessment.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to allow small businesses to receive an objective network security evaluation from a certified security specialist. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers an extensive test of your network from beyond your company firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security profile you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a certified security professional runs a network scan from a secure machine inside your firewall to determine vulnerabilities to inside assaults. The two security inventory packages are set up and run from a protected external location. The process is managed by an engineer who has earned high-level security accreditations and who generates a report that summarizes and interprets the information captured by the scan and proposes practical improvements where called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated testing of your network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Intrusion Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important part of any successful network security strategy. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the awareness of your company's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are properly set up and consistently checked. Find out more on Progent's network security penetration testing consulting.

Firewall/VPN Solutions
Progent's background in security solutions includes in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and VPN technology from a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet. Progent offers the support of consultants who have earned key industry accreditations including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Integration and Troubleshooting
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services provide substantially more value than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for all new deployments. Following Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the entire family of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most deployed network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network consultants can assist you to maintain your current PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade 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 help your business to plan, integrate, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional details about Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's network security and remote connection products provide a complete line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align best with your company objectives. Learn additional information concerning Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security and VPN Products.

Engineering Services for Additional Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as Check Point Software, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a detailed security plan and select the right products from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security goals while sticking within your spending limits.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight series of network monitoring and management services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based analysis technology to guard endpoints as well as physical and virtual servers against new malware attacks such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape traditional signature-based AV tools. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete malware attack lifecycle including protection, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alerts, device control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools packaged within a single agent accessible from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you define and implement policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent's consultants can also assist you to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables fast restoration of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks like ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when needed, can assist you to restore your business-critical data. Find out more about ProSight DPS Managed Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises security gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more details, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's World-class Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a fast virtual machine host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting solution without requiring a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied a single hosting service. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time thrown away searching for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're making improvements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Planning
Every business ought to develop a carefully considered security program that includes both preventive procedures and response plans. The proactive strategy is a set of procedures designed to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive strategy assists your company's network security engineers to assess the damage resulting from a security penetration, repair the system, record the event, and get the IT network operational as soon as possible.

Progent's expert IS security consultants can to assist your company to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and define a network security strategy to implement security policies and controls to minimize future attacks and dangers.

CISM Qualified System Security Consulting Assistance
The CISM committee defines the basic capabilities and global standards of skill that IT security professionals are expected to master. CISM gives business management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential possess the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM Certified security consultants to assist businesses with:

  • IS Security Governance
  • Risk Analysis
  • IS Security Implementation Management
  • IS Security Management
  • Response Management
Learn more details about Progent's CISM Qualified Network Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Support
The CISSP credential denotes mastery of an international standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has granted certification accreditation in the area of information protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent offers the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a variety security fields such as:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Models
  • Access Control Systems and Processes
  • Applications Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Data Encryption Technology
  • Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read additional details concerning Progent's CISSP-certified Information Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Engineering Support
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough examination and significant work with network security design. The ISSAP certification indicates demonstrated competence in the most challenging requirements of IS security architecture within the wider scope of information security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your company with all phases of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Phone System and System Infrastructure Protection
  • Cryptography Solutions
  • Needs Analysis and Security Criteria
  • Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Site Security
Learn more information about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Services.

CISA Certified Network Security Auditing Consulting Services
The CISA credential is an important qualification that indicates mastery in network security auditing. Certified by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit consultants are available to assist your business with:

  • Information Systems Audit Services
  • IT Governance
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
  • Information Technology Support
  • Safeguarding Information Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out the details about Progent's CISA Certified Information System Security Auditing Engineering Services.

CRISC Experts
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify a consultant's skills to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to develop and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to match your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified network risk mitigation experts offer a range of risk assessment services including:

  • Gather data and review documentation to help identify significant risk scenarios
  • Inventory statutory, regulatory, and business requirements and company standards associated with your network to determine their possible impact on your strategic goals
  • Point out potential threats for your business workflows to assist in evaluating your enterprise risk
  • Create a risk awareness program and provide training to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can contribute to your risk control process
  • Connect key risk vectors to related business processes to help determine risk responsibility
  • Determine risk tolerance with executive management and key stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement
Find out additional information about Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts.

GIAC Accredited Network Security Engineering Expertise
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to make sure that a certified professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in critical categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by businesses and government organizations all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC security audit specialists can help your IT organization with:

  • Assessing IT Infrastructure
  • Security Incident Handling
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Read more information concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Get in Touch with a Security Specialist
To see how you can contact a certified security engineer for remote or on-premises help in Iowa, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Computer Support.

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