Fast and Affordable Security Checkups for Small Businesses
Is your small business network keeping pace with today's security environment? Are you protecting your network assets? How difficult would it be for a hacker to break into your information system, and what steps can you take to prevent it? Progent has developed a fast and affordable way for small businesses to answer these questions without disrupting their network operations.
Progent's Network Security Inventory packages are fixed-price service bundles that rely on advanced network scanning technology and the certified expertise of Progent's security engineers to evaluate the vulnerability of your network and provide recommendations for simple ways you can mitigate your security risk. Progent offers two packages, the External Network Security Inventory and the Internal Network Security Inventory, which assess different aspects of network security exposure and which you can use separately or together. Both packages offer features designed for the needs of small businesses who want to take a more proactive role in making their networks safe from malicious assaults but who don't have the time or the budget to manage an exhaustive enterprise-class network security audit.
Top Features and Benefits of Progent's Security Inventory Packages for Small Business Networks
Progent's Security Inventory packages offer an array of features and benefits especially designed to address today's increasingly hostile security environment in which all business networks operate but also to take into account the financial and operational realties of small companies. Implemented together or separately, Progent's External and Internal security scanning packages help small businesses achieve a high level of network protection at little cost or hassle.
- Low-cost:
Progent's Network Security Inventory packages are inexpensive and are offered at a set-price, so you know in advance what it will cost to understand the state of your network security. Potential attack vectors detected by Progent's security scans are typically easy to fix and involve configuration issues with network operating systems, applications, and devices. If you have not regularly utilized security scans in the past, you get a lot of bang for your buck. Generally, a great deal of security risk associated with small business networks can be substantially reduced at very little expense.
- Fast:
The scanning, analysis, and reporting processes involved in Progent's Network Security Inventory packages can usually be completed in one business day. This fast turnaround can reduce the window during which your network is exposed to attack by allowing you to move quickly into remediation mode. This also reduces the stressful suspense management may feel not knowing whether information assets are safe, and minimizes the time that your network manager is diverted from other responsibilities. A combination of advanced scanning technology and experienced engineers allow Progent's security team to deliver results quickly and at low cost to the customer.
- Remote Scanning:
The scanning phase of Progent's Network Security Inventory packages are managed remotely from a secure Progent site. In the case of the Internal Network Security Inventory package, the scan is itself run from an onsite machine made available by the customer. The setup procedure for external or internal scans can accomplished in minutes, and the collected data is analyzed offsite by Progent's certified security professionals. By utilizing remote tools to conduct the Network Security Inventory packages, Progent saves significant time and money, which in turn allows Progent to offer these packages at prices that small businesses can afford.
- Proactive:
Progent's Network Security Inventory packages are not intended to detect and remove viruses or other malware resulting from a successful attack on your network, but to uncover common security gaps before they are exploited by malicious sources. Although larger enterprises routinely utilize third-party consulting firms like Progent to conduct vulnerability scans in order to benefit from an objective risk assessment, small businesses with limited IT budgets and technical expertise often wait until their networks are hacked before getting serious about security. By offering vulnerability scanning packages that are fast, affordable, and effective, Progent makes it a no brainer for small businesses to take the lead in protecting their network assets.
- Certified Security Engineers:
Progent's security engineers have been certified by some of the industry's most prestigious standards institutions including the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC), and the SANS Institute. Progent's security team has worked with major enterprises to assess and enhance network security. With Progent's Network Security Inventory packages, small businesses get the benefit of vulnerability assessments from world-class security professionals without requiring an enterprise-class IT budget.
- Effective:
Progent's security engineers are familiar with the sophisticated tools and techniques hackers employ to break into information networks to steal and control resources and data. The majority of these intrusion attempts are based on exploiting security gaps that are surprisingly easy to block. Both of Progent's Network Security Inventory packages address a separate range of potential security vulnerabilities often found in small business IT networks. Either package will provide information to help you enhance your network protection. Using the external and the internal scan packages together will allow you to secure your network even more.
- Actionable Reporting:
The data collected from Progent's Network Security Inventory scans are analyzed by a certified engineer on Progent's security team. As part of the package, Progent's security engineer will prepare and send a report that summarizes the results of the vulnerability scan and suggests mitigation procedures that can be performed by Progent, by your in-house IT support staff, or by a competent third-party security consulting firm. Any remedial work requested from Progent will be performed as a separate project for which Progent can provide a time estimate and for which Progent will bill at standard consulting rates.
External Security Inventory Scan
Progent's External Network Security Inventory package tests for the threat levels of the open ports and services on your network that are exposed outside your firewall. These ports and services can include email, web sites, eCommerce applications, remote access tools, or any service that requires or is granted communication with the world beyond your firewall. This is a favorite hunting ground of hackers and, in many small businesses, a rich source of attack vectors.
Progent's security team will examine the scanned data, produce a report that summarizes and interprets the results, and make suggestions on efficient ways to reduce your exposure to attack. The external scan will not disrupt your ongoing network operations or noticeably impact your system performance. Progent offers this service package at a low set price that covers setup, scanning, analysis, reporting, and recommendations. The set price does not include remediation services which may be suggested. These follow-on services can be performed by any qualified security engineer and are available from Progent at standard consulting rates.
Internal Security Inventory Scan
Many security attacks originate from inside your company firewall and can be the result of careless employees who attach compromised laptops to your network, workers who try to access restricted information or gain unauthorized administration rights, or lurkers in close physical proximity to your wireless access points. Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory package tests for vulnerabilities within your firewall by looking for open ports and services that are not exposed to the outside world but that could be a source of trouble if improperly configured. The internal scan can be executed from any computer inside your security perimeter that you make temporarily available to Progent's security engineer. Progent will remotely download a virtual machine and the required scanning tools to the internal computer you have assigned, launch the scan, and transfer the collected data to a secure Progent site. Progent does not need to make an expensive onsite service call and the time required to install and subsequently remove the scanning software is negligible.
Progent's security engineer managing the Internal Security Inventory Scan will examine the scanned data and create a report that summarizes the results and suggests any mitigation measures that may be required. Progent offers this service package at a low set price that covers setup, scanning, analysis, reporting, and recommendations. The set price does not include remediation services which may be suggested. These follow-on services can be performed by any qualified security engineer and are available from Progent at standard consulting rates.
Download the Security Inventory Scan Datasheet
To download a single-page printable datasheet describing Progent's two set-price Security Inventory Scan service packages for small businesses, click:
Security Inventory Scanning Packages (PDF - 104 KB).
Additional Network Security Auditing Services Available from Progent
Progent offers a variety of additional services designed to check your network for vulnerabilities, verify your compliance with governmental or industry security standards, and mitigate critical gaps in your network's defenses:
- Enterprise Vulnerability Assessment Service Packages
Progent can provide a range of set-price enterprise security assessment service packages created for corporations who need to comply with security standards required by state agencies or by customers. Progent's security assessment packages offer larger businesses an opportunity to get an objective opinion about the strength of their network security. For each security inventory or evaluation bundle, Progent engineers with high-level security credentials analyze and report on collected data and provide suggestions for effective improvements. An added-cost option for on-premises security engineers is available throughout United States.
- Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports repeated, simultaneous, automated assessment of your network to help you identify, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent offers the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
- Unannounced Penetration Testing
Progent can perform comprehensive network penetration exercises without the knowledge of in-house network resources. Unannounced Security Testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring mechanisms such as penetration detection alerts and event log tracking are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent security engineers can utilize a number of popular hacker tools to expand attack vectors to gain knowledge of the entire network and determine how many internal devices can be connected to and exploited. This type of vulnerability testing can expose the entire scope of the security flaws of an information system.
- Security Assessment Consulting Services
Progent's expert network security assessment and compliance consulting support services can assist your company to evaluate your procedures and policies and check your IT infrastructure to enable you to build the maximum level of security into your information system. Progent's security engineers can also test your web business applications for security weaknesses and can perform company-wide audits to verify your adherence to major security specifications including HIPAA, FISMA, NIST, PCI, and ISO.
ProSight Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight portfolio of network management outsourcing services is intended to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art 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 is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior-based analysis tools to defend endpoint devices and physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and email phishing, which routinely evade traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and offers a single platform to manage the complete threat lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, cleanup, and forensics. Top features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery with SentinelOne technology.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services deliver affordable in-depth security for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to security assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, penetration alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge technologies incorporated within a single agent accessible from a unified control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can help your business to design and implement a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific requirements and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data security regulations. Progent will help you define and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate attention. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and restore solution like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can get back in business quickly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.
- ProSight DPS: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has worked with leading backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a selection of subscription-based offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS services manage and track your backup processes and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of vital files, applications, images, plus VMs. ProSight DPS lets you avoid data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, human mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software bugs. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight DPS MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can help you to determine which of these fully managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.
- ProSight Email Guard: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that incorporates the services and infrastructure of leading information security vendors to deliver centralized management and world-class security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with a local security gateway appliance to provide complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-based malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of threats from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway device provides a deeper layer of inspection for inbound email. For outbound email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Email Guard spam filtering, virus defense, email content filtering and data leakage prevention.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Network Infrastructure Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight WAN Watch is an infrastructure management service that makes it easy and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to map out, track, optimize and debug their connectivity hardware like routers and switches, firewalls, and access points plus servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Using state-of-the-art RMM technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are kept current, copies and manages the configuration of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and sends notices when problems are discovered. By automating time-consuming network management activities, ProSight WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores like making network diagrams, expanding your network, locating appliances that need critical software patches, or identifying the cause of performance problems. Learn more about ProSight WAN Watch network infrastructure management consulting.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring and Management
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that uses advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to keep your IT system running at peak levels by tracking the health of critical assets that drive your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch detects a problem, an alert is transmitted automatically to your designated IT management staff and your assigned Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be addressed before they can disrupt your network Find out more about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop monitoring services.
- 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 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 IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Since the system is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hardware environment without requiring a time-consuming and difficult configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Infrastructure Documentation Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, retrieve and protect information related to your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly locate passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about upcoming expirations of SSLs or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized repository for storing and collaborating on all documents required for managing your network infrastructure like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT information. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about ProSight IT Asset Management service.
- Progent's Patch Management: Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, testing, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your ever-evolving IT system. In addition to maximizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services allow your in-house IT team to concentrate on line-of-business initiatives and tasks that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management support services.
- ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication: Access Security, Endpoint Remediation, and Protected Single Sign-on
Progent's Duo authentication managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for access security.
ProSight Network Audits
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and affordable way for small and mid-size organizations to get an unbiased assessment of the overall health of their IT system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management platforms in the industry, and supervised by Progent's world-class team of information technology experts, ProSight Network Audits help you see how well the configuration of your essential network devices adhere to industry leading practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are offered at a low, one-time cost and deliver instant benefits such as a cleaner Active Directory (AD) environment. Both versions also come with a year of advanced remote network monitoring and management. Advantages can include easier network management, better compliance with information security regulations, more efficient utilization of network assets, quicker troubleshooting, more reliable backup and restore, and higher availability. Read more about Progent's ProSight Network Audits IT infrastructure assessment.
The ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service
Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report service is an affordable service built around a brief interview with a Progent information assurance consultant. The fact-finding interview is designed to help assess your company's ability either to stop or recover rapidly following an assault by a ransomware strain like Ryuk, WannaCry, MongoLock, or Hermes. Progent will work with you personally to gather information concerning your existing cybersecurity posture and backup system, and Progent will then deliver a custom Basic Security and Best Practices Report document describing how you can follow best practices to build a cost-effective security and backup environment that aligns with your company's requirements. For additional information, see Progent's ProSight Ransomware Preparedness Report Service.
Contact Progent for Network Security Auditing
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