Data Security and Compliance
For Small and Midsize Company IT Networks:
Additional Firewall and VPN Solutions
- Overview of Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
- Cisco Firepower, ASA and PIX Firewall Consulting
- Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consulting
- Check Point Software Consulting
- Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
- WatchGuard Consulting
- Juniper Networks NetScreen Consulting
- SonicWall Consulting
- Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Consulting
- Symantec Raptor and VelociRaptor Consulting
Progent can help you create a comprehensive security strategy and select appropriate products from a variety of suppliers to support your security goals while staying within your budget. Progent can also help you deploy Firewall/VPN products seamlessly into your network infrastructure, integrate them with hardware and software from other vendors, train your IT staff to manage and monitor them, and provide one-stop maintenance and support.
Firewall/VPN Solutions
Firewalls and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are indispensable tools for keeping your network safe from malicious attacks and unauthorized access. In general, Firewalls provide access control and user authentication and VPNs offer secure, encrypted two-way communication over untrusted media such as the Internet. Firewall/VPN solutions can be dedicated or integrated products and can be in the form of hardware appliances or software utilities. You can select relatively expensive products that offer high speed and extensive functionality or less expensive products with slower performance and minimal functionality. You can also mix and match products to fit your security strategy and IT budget.
Firewalls and VPNs make it possible to build a secure network that can be safely accessed by local users as well as by telecommuters and mobile employees, vendors, customers, partners, and the public. Today's Firewall/VPN technology allows you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and enhance your security as your business grows and as network attacks become increasingly sophisticated.
Firewall Technology
Firewalls control who and what has access to your network. Firewalls with stateful inspection can keep track of source and destination IP addresses and port numbers, making it possible to analyze not just isolated data packets but entire communications sessions in order to protect the network from attack and intrusion. High-end Firewalls offer defense against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks as well as protection against applications which may harbor Trojans, Spyware, worms or other malicious content. Dedicated appliances called Intrusion Protection Systems (IPS) are also available for fast and comprehensive application-level protection.
You can deploy Firewalls at remote sites, regional offices, your network perimeter, your data center, and even within your internal network in cases where you want to address regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) or Gramm-Leach-Bliley (GLB).
VPN Technology
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is the technology of choice for securing two-way communications over untrusted media. VPN uses encryption to prevent intruders from hijacking a data connection between two sites, between a client and a site, or between two internal network segments. Untrusted media usually means the Internet, but it can also mean an internal network segment when you wish to isolate departments such as accounting or human resources. When you deploy VPN, Firewalls are advisable at the destination points in order to verify user identity prior to granting VPN access.
Two basic types of VPN are IPsec VPN and SSL VPN. An IPsec VPN can potentially allow a user to access all network resources. An SSL VPN connects a web browser to a restricted application or set of applications based on the credentials of the user. Remote or branch offices and telecommuters typically use IPsec VPNs, and mobile employees, partners, vendors, and the public typically use SSL VPNs.
How Progent's Firewall/VPN Consultants Can Help
The variety of Firewall/VPN products and architectures makes it difficult to decide on a security solution that aligns best with your business goals. Trade-offs between security and user convenience, economy and performance, complexity and manageability, legacy solutions and new technology, are all important parts of the planning process that can make or break your security strategy. Progent's security consultants have extensive field experience deploying and supporting Firewall/VPN products from multiple vendors and can help you create a smart security solution and then implement, manage and support it. In addition, Progent's CISSP certified cybersecurity consultants and CISM certified cybersecurity management consultants can advise you about how to design security into your business processes. Progent's CISA-certified information security audit consultants and penetration testing experts can asses the strength of your current firewall deployment and evaluate the overall security of your information system.
For more information about Progent's consulting and support services for Firewall/VPN products, call
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24 Hour Online Support Services Outlook Web App and iPad
Computer Consultants Mac unified messaging
Exchange Servers and Macintosh computers can work together efficiently. Progent's Mac and Microsoft certified experts can help you set up Microsoft Entourage and Exchange so your Mac users are able to work closely with teammates who run Microsoft Outlook. With Microsoft Exchange and Entourage 2008 for Mac, Exchange and Mac systems can coexist, enabling Mac users to receive and transmit email, search the GAL, import addresses, synchronize appointments, and alert fellow workers to meetings via your Exchange account. Progent will make sure that your Microsoft Server is properly set up and that WebDAV and Outlook Web connectivity are working. Progent also can provide customized onsite Entourage training.
Ekahau Predictive Wi-Fi Site Design Professionals
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Progent's Ekahau-certified Wi-Fi site design consultants can help your business to design, deploy, optimize, manage and troubleshoot a Wi-Fi solution optimized for your facilities. Progent offers remote or on-premises expertise for Ekahau Pro for predictive Wi-Fi design, Ekahau Sidekick for on-premises RF analysis, Ekahau Analyzer for resolving RF signal issues, and Ekahau Insights for tracking the health of multiple Wi-Fi networks.
Online HelpDesk Call Center Support and Setup
Help Desk Software Selection and Deployment Information Technology Consulting
The Help Desk service delivery structure used by Progent's Technical Response Center offers small businesses an affordable alternative to reliance on freelance consultants by offering extensive technical knowledge shared by numerous support teams, optional round-the-clock availability of urgent help, escalation capability to world-class experts for handling the most difficult issues, support consistency and reliability, quick follow-up enforced by veteran service managers, a variety of convenient mechanisms for requesting service jobs, plus excellent process visibility made possible by ticket tracking and available via a web portal.
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Progent's ransomware experts can help your business to evaluate your ransomware vulnerability, monitor and guard your IT environment, assist with negotiating a settlement with a hacker, and reconstruct an information system damaged by a ransomware variant such as Ryuk, Maze, Sodinokibi, DopplePaymer, LockBit or Nephilim.
Wireless LAN Engineer
Network Consultant Wireless Network
Progent's wireless professionals can help small businesses plan, select, test, install and support secure building-to-building wireless bridging products that integrate transparently into your existing network while offering a level of security that equals or exceeds wired interfaces. Progent offers experience in wireless network products from Cisco Aironet and Meraki, Proxim, and other small business wireless vendors and can show you how to identify and install the wireless link solutions that align best your company requirements.
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BDR and Business Continuity Solutions Online Consulting
ProSight ECHO Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses a low-cost end-to-end service for cloud backup/disaster recovery. ProSight Data Protection Services automates and monitors your backup activities and enables rapid restoration of vital data, apps and virtual machines that have become unavailable or corrupted due to hardware failures, software glitches, natural disasters, human error, or malicious attacks such as ransomware. ProSight Data Protection Services can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver advanced support to configure ProSight DPS to to comply with government and industry regulatory standards such as HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, whenever needed, can assist you to restore your critical information.
Palo Alto Networks Panorama Cybersecurity Company
Palo Alto Networks PA-220 Series Firewalls Security Consultant
Progent's Palo Alto Networks firewall experts can show you how to choose, deploy, and manage Palo Alto Networks PA-Series firewalls to provide a next-generation security environment that extends across your data center and cloud-based assets and protects all users anywhere with any endpoint device.
Remote PC and Smartphone Consultancy Services
Desktop VPN Network Recovery
Progent's remote connectivity and smartphone synchronization specialists can help your business to design and configure connectivity solutions for off-site desktops, notebooks, and smartphones so they work tightly with your information network, enabling you to optimize the productivity of your off-site workers.
Immediate Wi-Fi Site Survey Remote Support Services
Wireless Site Survey Consulting
Progent's Wi-Fi site survey services make it easy to design, implement and debug a Wi-Fi LAN optimized for your facilities, offering your business a wireless solution that delivers the reception, speed, density, security, and roaming ability your business needs.
Consultancy ransomware protection assessment
ransomware defense checkup Consultant Services
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is a low-cost service centered on a phone interview with a Progent information assurance consultant. The interview is designed to help assess your organization's ability to defend against ransomware or recover quickly after a ransomware attack. Progent will work with you personally to collect information concerning your existing security profile and backup procedures, and Progent will then produce a written Basic Security and Best Practices Report describing how you can apply industry best practices to build a cost-effective AV and backup system that minimizes your exposure to a ransomware attack and meets your business requirements.
ISA 2004 Firewall Computer Consulting
Immediate ISA Server Professionals
Progent's certified Forefront TMG and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 consultants can assist you to plan, deploy, and manage a configuration of Forefront Threat Management Server 2010 or Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 on your network that provides the firewall protection, performance and ease-of-use that your company requires.
VMware VDP Backup, Engineers
Backup Exec Consultant
Progent offers economical online support from IT engineers with expertise in a broad array of products and technologies that deliver solutions for backing up Windows, Mac, and Linux/UNIX physical and virtual servers and desktops plus laptops and handhelds. Progent offers expertise for all major backup platforms such as Acronis Backup and Recovery, Barracuda Backup, Altaro VM Backup, Backup Exec, BackupAssist Software, HP Data Protector, Double-Take, Mozy, Retrospect, Apple Time Machine, VMware vSphere Data Protection (VDP), and Oracle Solaris FLARs. Progent's consultants can help your company to design, upgrade, or troubleshoot backup solutions for a variety of topologies such as local, remote, cloud, or a mix.
Microsoft Exchange Network Consultant
Exchange 2003 Setup and Support
Progent's expert support team can help you define and implement an efficient in-place Exchange Server 2003 upgrade plan that avoids productivity disruption, simplifies ongoing service demands, and makes your Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 easy to administer. For complex multi-server or multi-site migrations, Progent has the knowledge and experience to complete your project rapidly and affordably. Progent's Microsoft Exchange 2003 help, troubleshooting, and consulting offerings include expertise with the integration of outside vendor add-ons to Exchange 2003 Server that are best aligned to your business needs.
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