South Dakota Computer Security, Email Filtering, Disaster Recovery
For IT Systems of All Sizes:
Security and Compliance Expertise and Support
Small business networks in South Dakota can depend on prompt and economical remote access to Progent's qualified security engineers to assist with urgent security issues. The cost is competitive, billing is per minute, engagement is fast, and support is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for long-term projects that demand the knowledge of seasoned security engineers with top security credentials.
In case your South Dakota company is located away from more populated metropolitan neighborhoods like Sioux Falls, Rapid City, or Aberdeen, support from local accredited security support specialists may be limited when there's an emergency. This can cause a loss of income for your business, upset clients, unproductive workers, and defocused executives. By utilizing Progent's online services, you have access to a Certified security professional ready to offer help whenever you require it to keep your network running and salvage your information.
Progent can assist you in a variety of ways in your initiatives to protect your information system with support services that can range from security assessments to developing a company-wide security plan. Progent provides economical support to help companies of any size to set up and manage secure networks based on Windows and Cisco technology and that can include computers running UNIX, Linux, Solaris, or Apple Mac OS X operating systems plus BYOD users with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.
Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware assault by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware experts can assist businesses to locate and isolate infected devices and guard undamaged assets from being compromised.
If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's 24x7 Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.
Introduction to Progent's Security Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and protection from email-borne security threats. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based threats. ProSight Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your vulnerability to external attacks and saves system bandwidth and storage space. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the local security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall.
Progent's security experts are available remotely or on premises to provide a variety of emergency or project-based network security services including:
- Run comprehensive security audits
- Recover quickly after serious security breaches
- Install effective firewalls
- Implement secure methods for offsite and mobile connectivity
- Deploy advanced utilities for defense against viruses, spam and DHAs
- Help create a company-wide security plan with proactive monitoring
- Offer comprehensive Help Desk Services
- Help Create a practical data backup and restore plan centered on Microsoft Data Protection Manager backup capability
Progent's engineers provide world-class support in key facets of network security that include security evaluation, firewall and VPN solutions, and high-level security planning.
System Assessment
Progent's expert security engineers can evaluate the vulnerability of your existing computer security implementation through comprehensive remote automated testing based on sophisticated software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in administering this testing saves you time and money and offers an accurate picture of gaps. The information your business is provided can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will permit your information system to run dependably and react quickly to future risks.
Automated Security Evaluation
Progent provides expertise in the application of security evaluation packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and GFI LANguard NSS for economically performing a set of programmed system testing checks to uncover possible security problems. Progent has broad knowledge of additional network analysis products including NMAP Port Scanner, AMAP application mapper, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as tools such as SolarWinds, Netcat, Socat, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react appropriately.
Progent can help you design security into your company operations, configure auditing tools, plan and implement a secure network architecture, and recommend policies to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are able to assist you to configure a firewall, implement safe remote access to email and business applications, and install virtual private network. Find out more on Progent's automated security audits.
Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Companies
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory scanning bundles designed to enable small businesses to receive an independent security assessment from a certified security consultant. With Progent's External Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from outside your firewall to determine possible weaknesses in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security expert runs a network scan from a secure computer within your firewall to evaluate vulnerabilities to internal attacks. Both security inventory services are set up and run from a protected external site. The project is overseen by an engineer who has earned top security credentials and who generates a report that details and analyzes the information collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective improvements if called for.
Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver continuous, concurrent, programmable assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, rank, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.
Stealth Penetration Testing Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is a key part of any serious IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration tests without the knowledge of your company's in-house network support resources. Stealth penetration testing uncovers whether existing security defense tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event history analysis are correctly set up and consistently checked. Learn more concerning Progent's stealth penetration analysis consulting.
Firewall And Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions
Progent's expertise in network security technology includes in-depth familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by a variety of companies such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Watch Guard. Progent can provide the support of engineers who have earned key industry certifications including Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.
Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The latest generation of ASA 5500-X Family Next-Generation Firewalls with Firepower Services deliver significantly more value than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new deployments. Following Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole family of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the world's most popular network intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services provide powerful new features including advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can assist your company to manage your existing PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or 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 help your organization to design, configure, tune, manage and troubleshoot firewall solutions built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See more information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging support.
Cisco Security and VPN Support Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite connection technology offer a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security solutions to help protect your local and remote information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who are able to help your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and other Cisco security technologies that align best with your company objectives. Find out more details concerning Progent's Consulting Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Appliances.
Engineering Services for Other Firewall and VPN Technology
Progent provides small and mid-size companies professional support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN technology from leading firewall and Virtual Private Network security vendors including WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate products from multiple suppliers to achieve your security goals while staying within your budget limits.
Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's affordable ProSight line of managed services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance. ProSight managed services available from Progent include:
ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by legacy signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to manage the entire threat lifecycle including filtering, identification, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers two-way firewall protection, penetration alarms, device management, and web filtering through cutting-edge technologies packaged within one agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection regulations. Progent will help you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your network and react to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and restore system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Read more about Progent's
ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for reliable backup/disaster recovery (BDR). Available at a low monthly cost, ProSight Data Protection Services automates your backup activities and allows fast recovery of critical data, applications and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted as a result of hardware breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Critical data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory standards like HIPAA, FINRA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information. Learn more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.
ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that uses the infrastructure of leading data security vendors to provide web-based management and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with a local gateway appliance to offer complete protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite security gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The onsite security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that stays inside your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.
ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted Virtual Machines at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and maintained by Progent's network support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be moved immediately to an alternate hardware solution 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 an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and protect data related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and organizing your network documentation, you can save up to 50% of time wasted searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized repository for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need when you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
Expert Network Security Design
Any company should have a carefully thought out security program that incorporates both proactive processes and response planning. The proactive plan is a collection of steps designed to reduce vulnerabilities. The reactive plan helps your network security engineers to assess the damage resulting from an attack, fix the system, document the event, and get the IT network running as rapidly as possible.
Progent's expert IS security consultants are available to help you to run a comprehensive vulnerability evaluation and create a computer security plan to implement security processes and mechanisms to reduce ongoing assaults and threats.
CISM Certified Security Consulting Expertise
The CISM committee describes the core capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to learn. It provides executive management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM certification have the experience and capability to deliver efficient security administration and support consulting. Progent offers the services of CISM Certified security professionals to assist companies with:
- IS Security Governance
- Risk Analysis
- Network Security Program Management
- Network Security Administration
- Response Management
CISSP Certified Security Consulting Services
CISSP recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for data security. ANSI has awarded certification accreditation in the area of data security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent can provide access to of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a broad range of security fields such as:
- Security Management Practices
- Security Infrastructure and Models
- Access Management Systems and Processes
- Software Development Security
- Secure Operations
- Site Security
- Encryption/Decryption Mechanisms
- Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
- Disaster Recovery Planning
CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure Network Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified network architecture engineers are consultants who have been awarded ISSAP Certification as a result of rigorous examination and extensive experience with network security design. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification indicates proven competence in the more in-depth demands of information security architecture within the broader scope of IS security expertise required for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can help your company with all aspects of architecture security such as.
- Access Management Systems and Methodologies
- Telecom and Network Protection
- Data Encryption Solutions
- Requirements Evaluation and Security Standards
- BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning
- Site Security
CISA Accredited Security Auditing Engineering Services
The CISA credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive test given by the ISACA international professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit specialists can assist your company in the areas of:
- IS Audit Services
- Information Technology Governance
- Systems and Infrastructure Lifecycle Planning
- Information Technology Support
- Safeguarding Data Assets
- Disaster Recovery Planning
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's ability to plan, deploy, and support IS control mechanisms to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help your company to develop and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and crafted to match your organization's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC network risk mitigation specialists can provide a range of risk assessment services such as:
- Gather data and study documentation to help identify major vulnerabilities
- Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual mandates and company standards associated with your information system to assess their possible influence on your strategic objectives
- Identify possible vulnerabilities for your business processes to assist in evaluating your corporate risk
- Create a risk awareness initiative and provide training to make sure your stakeholders appreciate IS risk so they can assist with your risk management process
- Match key risk scenarios to related operational processes to help determine risk ownership
- Validate risk tolerance with executive leadership and key stakeholders to ensure they align
GIAC Qualified Security Consulting Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was founded in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge necessary to provide support in key categories of system, data, and application program security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit engineers can help your business with:
- Assessing Security Systems
- Incident Handling
- Traffic Analysis
- Web Application Security
- Security information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions
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