Small business networks in Montana can depend on quick and economical remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security support specialists to help with the toughest security issues. The cost is reasonable, charges are per minute, sign-up is quick, and service is world class. Progent also offers help for complex projects that requires the services of senior security consultants with high-level security certifications.

If your Montana small business is located far from larger metropolitan neighborhoods like Billings, Missoula, or Great Falls, contact with local accredited network security engineers could be problematic when you have an emergency. This could mean lost revenue for your company, angry customers, idle workers, and distracted management. By contacting Progent's remote support, you have access to a Certified security professional who can offer assistance when you need it to keep your network on line and salvage your data.

Progent can assist you in your initiatives to protect your information system with support ranging from network security assessments to creating a company-wide security strategy. Progent offers affordable support to help businesses of all sizes to configure and maintain safe IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers based on UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X operating systems as well as BYOD 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 organizations to carry out the urgent first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated.

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

Introduction to Progent's IT Security Services
Progent can show you how to outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and world-class security for all your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite gateway can also help Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays within your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified consultants are accessible online or in person to provide a variety of emergency or longer-term network security services including:

If your company has an immediate requirement for IT security help, go to Progent's Urgent Remote Network Support.

Progent's engineers offer world-class services in key areas of network protection that include auditing, firewall and VPN expertise, and high-level security consulting.

Security Assessment
Progent's certified security engineers can evaluate the effectiveness of your current network protection implementation through comprehensive remote automated analysis based on advanced software tools and proven procedures. Progent's skill in this testing saves you consulting fees and offers a detailed picture of weaknesses. The information your IT organization gains can be used as the foundation of a network protection strategy that will allow your network to operate dependably and respond quickly to future risks.

Automated Network Security Assessment
Progent provides consulting in the application of security auditing packages such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and LANguard from GFI for affordably running a set of programmed system testing checks to identify possible security vulnerabilities. Progent has broad knowledge of additional network analysis tools including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities such as Metasploit Framework, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can help you design protection into your business processes, install scanning software, define and implement a protected network environment, and recommend procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security consultants are able to assist you to set up a firewall, implement secure remote connectivity to email and data, and integrate virtual private network. Find out more about Progent's automated security assessment.

Security Inventory Scanning Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two ultra-affordable security inventory and evaluation packages designed to enable small companies to get an impartial security evaluation from a qualified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Scan, a security engineer runs an extensive test of your network from beyond your firewall to determine potential weaknesses in the security posture you expose to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Checkup, a certified security professional executes a network scan from a secure machine inside your firewall to assess your exposure to inside threats. Both security inventory packages are configured and executed from a protected external location. The process is directed by an engineer who has earned top security accreditations and who produces a document that details and analyzes the data captured by the security scan and proposes practical improvements where called for.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important component of any serious IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive intrusion tests without the awareness of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether existing security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and consistently monitored. Find out additional information on Progent's stealth security penetration testing support services.

Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's expertise in network security technology encompasses in-depth field work with leading firewalls and VPN products from a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the support of consultants with important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Security Appliances Integration and Debugging
The current Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more performance than Cisco's earlier firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new deployments. Following Cisco's acquisition of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices can be configured to enable Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced 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 maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls and migrate efficiently to ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants offer remote and on-premises help with ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your business to plan, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Learn additional details about ASA Firewalls with Firepower integration and troubleshooting support.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Engineering Services
Cisco's network security and remote access products offer a comprehensive range of manageable security solutions to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven specialists with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who are able to assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that fit best with your business goals. Learn additional information about Progent's Engineering Services for Cisco Security and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Technology
Progent provides small and medium size companies expert consulting for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from major firewall and VPN security vendors such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to design a detailed security strategy and select the right technologies from a variety of suppliers to achieve your security objectives while staying within your spending restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against new malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which routinely get by legacy signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to automate the entire threat progression including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include single-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services offer affordable in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all vectors. ProSight ESP offers two-way firewall protection, intrusion alerts, device management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can assist your business to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your company's unique needs and that helps you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security standards. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent's consultants can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive security attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and medium-sized businesses a low cost and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a fixed monthly rate, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become lost or damaged 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, apps, system images, as well as Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local device, or mirrored to both. Progent's backup and recovery specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, and PCI and, whenever necessary, can assist you to recover 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 filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized control and world-class security for your email traffic. The powerful architecture of Progent's Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer advanced protection against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a first line of defense and keeps most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device adds a deeper layer of inspection for incoming email. For outbound email, the local security gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that originates and ends within your security perimeter. For more details, see ProSight Email Guard spam filtering and data leakage protection.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware environment without requiring a lengthy and difficult reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not tied a single hosting provider. Learn 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 protect information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT documentation, you can eliminate as much as half of time wasted trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers advanced automation for collecting and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or responding to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require as soon as you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Design
Every business ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive processes and response planning. The proactive strategy is a set of steps intended to minimize security weaknesses. The reactive strategy assists your company's security personnel to assess the impact resulting from a security penetration, repair the network, document the event, and get the IT network operational as rapidly as possible.

Progent's certified information security consultants can to assist your business to perform a complete vulnerability evaluation and define a computer security plan to establish security policies and controls to reduce future 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 managers are required to learn. It provides executive management the confidence that consultants who have earned their CISM credential possess the background and knowledge to deliver effective security management and consulting consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM Certified security professionals to help businesses with:

  • Network Security Governance
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Implementation Management
  • IS Security Administration
  • Response Management
Find out additional information about Progent's CISM Accredited Information Security Support Professionals.

CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
CISSP certification denotes expertise with an international standard for information security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the area of data protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a broad range of security areas including:

  • Security Management Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  • Access Control Systems and Processes
  • Applications Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Physical Security
  • Data Encryption Mechanisms
  • Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
Read additional details about Progent's CISSP-certified Network Security Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Secure Network Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Premier network architecture professionals are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) credential indicates proven mastery in the more in-depth demands of information security architecture within the broader scope of information system security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security experts can assist your business with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Management Mechanisms and Techniques
  • Telecommunications and Network Protection
  • Cryptography Solutions
  • Needs Analysis and Security Guidelines
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Site Security
Learn more details concerning Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure IT Architecture Engineering Services.

CISA Accredited Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The CISA accreditation is an important achievement that indicates mastery in information system security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation has candidates pass a comprehensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA information security audit consultants can assist your business with:

  • IS Audit Process
  • Information Technology Enforcement
  • Network Assets and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
  • IT Support
  • Safeguarding Data Assets
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read more information about Progent's CISA Accredited Information System Security Auditing Engineering Assistance.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain IS controls to reduce network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to assist your company to create and carry out a business continuity plan that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk management experts can provide a variety of risk evaluation services including:

  • Collect information and review documentation to evaluate major risk scenarios
  • Inventory statutory, industry, and contractual requirements and organizational policies related to your information system to determine their potential impact on your business goals
  • Point out potential threats for your operational processes to help in evaluating your corporate risk
  • Create a risk awareness initiative and provide seminars to ensure your stakeholders understand information system risk so they can assist with your risk control program
  • Connect identified risk vectors to your associated operational procedures to help assign risk ownership
  • Validate risk tolerance with executive leadership and major stakeholders to ensure they are in agreement
Learn more information about Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of network security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified professional possesses the knowledge necessary to provide services in important categories of network, information, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC security audit experts can assist your IT organization with:

  • Auditing IT Infrastructure
  • Security Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web-based Application Security
  • SIEM solutions
Read additional details concerning Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Support.

Contact a Certified Progent Security Specialist
To see how to access a security consultant for remote or on-premises support in Montana, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Online Computer Support.

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