Progressive Network Solutions provides a variety of services to the Federal Highway Administration. Senior Information Assurance Analysts ensure that the IT Infrastructure and its various components adhere to mandated security requirements and are able to maintain formal Certification and Accreditation status. CISSP certified security engineers ensure a strong security posture by performing ongoing identification and remediation of system vulnerabilities.

Progressive Network Solutions also plays a key role in Federal Highway efforts to migrate to the “One DOT” platform which will consolidate E-mail and File & Print Services for all of the Department of Transportation organizations into a single environment. Microsoft Certified system architects and E-mail migration engineers helped design the underlying infrastructure and utilize best practices and industry leading migration tools to ensure a smooth transition.

PNS is also responsible for ensuring 24x7 availability of hundreds of servers that comprise the Federal Highway nationwide IT infrastructure.

Progressive Network Solutions provided the National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) with consulting expertise to undertake a comprehensive e-mail migration project from GroupWise 6 to Exchange 2000. PNS worked extensively with Microsoft Consulting Services and with 3rd party e-mail migration software vendors to ensure project success. In addition to providing engineering expertise, Progressive Network Solutions played a critical role in guiding the overall migration effort and facilitating communication between the migration team, helpdesk, design engineers, the user community, and upper management.

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) utilized Progressive Network Solutions to meet their Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for creating a formal Certification and Accreditation (C&A) process and also for creating several Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) manuals regarding guidelines for maintaining a high level of security and how to respond to security breaches. PNS also conducted penetration testing and a comprehensive review of the existing environment to identify and eliminate vulnerabilities.

PNS enabled the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) division of the Department of Labor to complete a large-scale migration project. This migration project included the design and implementation of a Windows 2000 Active Directory Forest to replace the legacy file and print services residing on Novell NDS servers. Once the Windows 2000 Active Directory infrastructure was in place, a meticulous process was conducted to move all existing user data to the Windows 2000 File servers and to create printers in Active Directory. The migration process also involved moving the GroupWise 5.5 user community to Exchange 2000.

Citibank engaged Progressive Network Solutions to ensure the security and stability of their high-profile financial systems and IT networks and to provide guidance on future security requirements. PNS maintained the existing network infrastructure including switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and Traffic Application Management hardware (Big IP and 3DNS), performed network penetration testing to ensure vulnerabilities were identified and eliminated, and conducted extensive technical evaluation of best-in-breed “Early Warning Protection” and “Real-Time Threat Analysis” products.

PNS provided a variety of services to VeriSign, including Network and Internet security engineering and design, Virtual Private Network (VPN) implementation and support, project management, and database administration. We are able to provide this support because of our expertise in the areas of routers, firewalls, load balancing, VPN, Windows 2000 Active Directory and Oracle database administration.

PNS performed a variety of large-scale projects benefiting the entire American Red Cross organization including the design of a centralized, scalable, and fault tolerant web-based e-mail access infrastructure, implementation and deployment of virus defense software for hundreds of Microsoft Exchange servers, and a turnkey solution for supporting the American Red Cross mobile computing environment.

Marriott outsourced a portion of their Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 engineering project to Progressive Network Solutions. PNS helped Marriott plan for and implement a cost-effective, timely, and smooth migration process from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000. PNS created a detailed project plan and work breakdown structure (WBS) identifying level of effort, timelines, and specific steps and tools required to complete the migration project within the strict timeframe and budgetary limitations.

PNS helped Cable and Wireless perform a corporate-wide e-mail migration from Microsoft Mail to Microsoft Exchange. PNS also assisted Cable and Wireless in the implementation of an asset management and software deployment solution.