Small business IT networks in the state of Maine can now get quick and economical online help from Progent's certified security experts to assist with critical security problems. The cost is competitive, charges are by the minute, sign-up is immediate, and service is world class. Progent also offers assistance for complex engagements that requires the services of seasoned security consultants with top industry certifications.

If your Maine company is some distance from larger metropolitan areas including Portland, Lewiston, or Bangor, access to nearby certified network security experts may be problematic when there's a security disaster. This can result in a drop in income for your business, angry customers, idle employees, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security engineer who can provide assistance whenever you have to have it to get your computer network operating and restore your data.

Progent can assist you in your initiatives to protect your IT environment with services that ranges from security audits to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers economical service to help small and midsize companies to design and manage secure networks powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD clients with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to guide organizations to complete the time-critical first phase in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help you to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being compromised.

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

Overview of Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption platform that incorporates the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The local security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your security perimeter.

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

  • Perform extensive network security audits
  • Recover quickly after virus and worm attacks
  • Install hardware and software firewalls
  • Configure safe methods for offsite and mobile connectivity
  • Install advanced applications for defense against viruses, spam and DHAs
  • Develop a company-wide security strategy with 24x7 monitoring
  • Offer outsourced Help Desk Call Center Services
  • Help Develop a practical data backup and disaster recovery solution built around Microsoft DPM automated backup capability
If your company has an emergency need for IT security help, go to Progent's Emergency Remote Network Support.

Progent's support professionals offer advanced services in key facets of system protection including security assessment, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

System Evaluation
Progent's expert security engineers can assess the effectiveness of your current network security systems by performing exhaustive remote automated testing via advanced utilities and proven techniques. Progent's experience in administering this service saves your company consulting fees and offers an objective portrayal of system vulnerability. The knowledge your IT organization gains can make up the foundation of a security plan that can allow your network to operate dependably and adapt quickly to future risks.

Automated Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides consulting in the application of security analysis software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard NSS for affordably running a variety of programmed system testing checks to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with additional network auditing utilities including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as SolarWinds, Netcat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to make sense of testing reports and respond effectively.

Progent can help you build security into your company processes, install auditing applications, define and deploy a protected system environment, and recommend policies to optimize the security of your IT system. Progent's security professionals are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, implement secure remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more on Progent's automated security evaluation.

Security Inventory Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory and evaluation bundles intended to enable small businesses to receive an objective network security evaluation from an accredited security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers a comprehensive examination of your network from outside your firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a system scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to uncover the risk to internal assaults. Both security inventory packages are configured and run from a secured remote location. The project is managed by a consultant with high-level security accreditations and who produces a report that summarizes and interprets the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective improvements where called for.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, automated testing of your network to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors 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 IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any successful IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough intrusion checks without the knowledge of your company's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are correctly set up and actively monitored. Find out additional information about Progent's network penetration analysis consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Support
Progent's expertise in network security solutions includes in-depth field work with major firewalls and VPN products from multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the support of consultants who have earned key industry certifications including CCIE and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Integration and Debugging
The current ASA 5500-X Series Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services offer significantly more performance than Cisco's previous firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX security appliances for all new deployments. Following Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, based on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services provide powerful new capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, dynamic threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network consultants can help you to maintain your existing PIX or ASA 5500 firewalls and upgrade efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer online and onsite help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can help you to plan, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments based on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out additional information about ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Support Services
Cisco's network security and remote access technology represent a full line of easy-to-administer security products to help safeguard your local and remote information system. Cisco's VPN product family features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's expert consulting staff includes field-proven engineers with Cisco CCIE and CCNP certifications who can assist your company to select Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your business goals. Read more details concerning Progent's Engineering Expertise for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Consulting Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent provides small and mid-size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN solutions from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as Check Point Software, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a comprehensive security plan and choose appropriate products from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget limits.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight family of outsourced network management services is intended to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art technology for all aspects of information assurance and compliance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching AV tools. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include one-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware recovery powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through 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 deployment that addresses your company's unique requirements and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry information protection standards. Progent will help you specify and implement policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that call for urgent action. Progent can also help you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized organizations an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery. Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup processes and allows fast recovery of critical files, apps and VMs that have become lost or damaged as a result of hardware failures, software glitches, disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR consultants can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with government and industry regulatory requirements such as HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to recover your critical data. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the infrastructure of top information security vendors to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all 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 appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer serves as a first line of defense and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to external threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway appliance provides a deeper layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size business can have its key servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support experts. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the apps. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Find out more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Infrastructure Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, update, find and protect data about your IT infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By updating and managing your IT documentation, you can eliminate up to 50% of time spent trying to find critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT information. Whether you're planning enhancements, doing regular maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Design
Any business ought to have a carefully considered security program that incorporates both proactive processes and reaction plans. The pre-attack plan is a collection of procedures designed to minimize security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy helps your network security engineers to evaluate the impact caused by an attack, fix the network, document the event, and get business functions operational as rapidly as feasible.

Progent's expert IS security consultants can to assist you to perform a complete risk assessment and define a company-wide security strategy to implement security policies and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Certified Network Security Engineering Services
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) committee describes the basic capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that IT security professionals are required to learn. CISM gives executive management the assurance that consultants who have qualified for their CISM certification have the background and knowledge to deliver effective security administration and support consulting. Progent can provide the expertise of CISM Certified security professionals to help businesses with:

  • Information Security Processes
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Implementation Management
  • Information Security Administration
  • Response Planning
Find out more details about Progent's CISM Certified IS Security Engineering Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Consulting Expertise
CISSP recognizes expertise with a worldwide standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the field of data security defined by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified professional to help your enterprise in a variety security fields including:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Architecture and Models
  • Access Management Systems and Processes
  • Applications Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Physical Security
  • Data Encryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Find out additional details about Progent's CISSP Accredited Network Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure System Architecture Consulting Services
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture engineers are consultants who have earned ISSAP Certification as a result of thorough examination and extensive experience with network security architecture. The ISSAP certification represents demonstrated skill in the more challenging demands of IS security architecture within the broader scope of information system security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of architecture security including.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecommunications and Network Protection
  • Encryption/Decryption Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Standards
  • Business Continuity Planning and DRP
  • Hardware Security
Learn more details about Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure IT Architecture Support Professionals.

CISA Qualified IS Security Auditing Consulting Expertise
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that represents mastery in IS security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that candidates undergo an extensive test administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent's CISA security audit specialists are available to assist your company in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Services
  • IT Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • Information Technology Support
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Business Continuity Preparedness
Read the details concerning Progent's CISA Accredited Security Auditing Engineering Services.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support information system controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to develop and execute a workplace continuity strategy that follows industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and budgetary guidelines. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk management engineers offer a range of risk assessment services such as:

  • Gather information and review documentation to identify significant risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, regulatory, and business mandates and company policies associated with your information system to determine their potential influence on your business objectives
  • Point out potential threats for your operational workflows to help in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Create a risk awareness program and conduct seminars to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IT risk so they can assist with your risk control process
  • Connect identified risk vectors to your associated operational procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Determine risk appetite with executive leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they match
Learn more details concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Accredited Information System Security Engineering Support
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security experts. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the knowledge necessary to deliver support in vital categories of system, information, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are recognized by companies and institutions all over the world including and the United States National Security Agency. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit consultants are available to help your company in the areas of:

  • Auditing IT Infrastructure
  • Incident Handling
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web-based Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Learn additional details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Services.

Talk to a Security Engineer
To see how you can get in touch with a certified Progent security consultant for remote or on-premises help in Maine, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Help.

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