Business information networks in the state of Minnesota can now get fast and affordable remote technical support from Progent's qualified network security engineers to help with critical security issues. Rates are reasonable, charges are by the minute, engagement is immediate, and support is world class. Progent also provides assistance for long-term projects that requires the services of seasoned security consultants with top security credentials.

In case your Minnesota office is based outside of more populated metropolitan areas such as Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester, Duluth, or Bloomington, access to nearby accredited security experts could be limited when you have a crisis. This can result in lost income for your business, upset customers, unproductive workers, and defocused management. By contacting Progent's online services, you can get in touch with a Certified security engineer who can offer assistance whenever you require it to get your system operating and recover your data.

Progent can help you at any level in your efforts to defend your network with support ranging from network security assessments to developing a comprehensive security plan. Progent offers affordable support to help businesses of all sizes to configure and maintain secure IT environments powered by Microsoft Windows and Cisco products and that may include servers and desktops running UNIX or Linux platforms plus mobile users with Apple handhelds or Android or Windows Phone handsets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's online ransomware experts can help you to locate and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and guard clean assets from being compromised.

If your system has been penetrated 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 Expertise
Progent can assist you to outsource spam blocking and protection from e-mail-based assaults. Email Guard is Progent's email filtering and encryption solution that incorporates the technology of leading data security companies to deliver centralized control and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of threats from making it to your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance provides a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway offers AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The local gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter.

Progent's security professionals are accessible online or on site to offer a variety of urgent or project-based IT security services such as:

If your company has an urgent need for computer security support, refer to Progent's Emergency Remote Technical Support.

Progent's engineers can deliver world-class support in key facets of system protection including security evaluation, firewalls and VPN, and high-level security planning.

Security Audits
Progent's expert security consultants can assess the strength of your existing network security systems through exhaustive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and tested procedures. Progent's experience in administering this testing saves you money and assures a detailed portrayal of weaknesses. The information your IT organization gains can be used as the foundation of a security plan that will allow your network to operate safely and respond quickly to new threats.

Automated Network Vulnerability Evaluation
Progent provides consulting in the use of security evaluation packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard for economically performing a variety of programmed system auditing scans to uncover potential security vulnerabilities. Progent has extensive experience with other security auditing tools such as NMAP, AMAP, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, plus tools such as Metasploit, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react appropriately.

Progent can help you design security into your company operations, install scanning tools, define and deploy a protected system environment, and suggest procedures to optimize the safety of your IT system. Progent's security engineers are ready to assist you to set up a firewall, design secure remote access to email and data, and install virtual private network. Find out more concerning Progent's network security evaluation.

Security Inventory and Evaluation Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent offers two low-cost security inventory bundles intended to enable small businesses to get an objective network security evaluation from a certified security expert. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer administers an extensive examination of your IT infrastructure from beyond your firewall to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the outside world. With Progent's Internal Security Inventory Checkup, a security engineer executes a network scan from an authorized computer within your company firewall to determine the risk to inside attacks. The two security inventory packages are set up and executed from a protected remote site. The project is directed by a consultant with top security credentials and who generates a document that details and interprets the information captured by the scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if appropriate.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Stealth Intrusion Analysis Consulting
Stealth penetration checking is an important component of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's internal network support staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively monitored. Find out additional information on Progent's network security penetration testing support services.

Firewall/VPN Expertise
Progent's background in network security solutions includes extensive familiarity with leading firewalls and Virtual Private Network products offered by multiple vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet. Progent can provide the support of consultants with key networking certifications such as CCIE and Microsoft MCSE.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Series Firewalls, and PIX Firewalls Configuration and Debugging
The latest generation of Cisco ASA 5500-X Family of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's previous PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have superseded the ASA 5500 and PIX 500 firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the whole line of ASA 5500-X devices can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort product, which is the market's most popular intrusion protection system (IPS). Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-premier CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your current PIX or ASA 5500 security appliances or migrate to Cisco 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 help your company to design, configure, optimize, manage and debug firewall environments built on Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Find out more information about Cisco ASA Firewalls with Firepower configuration and troubleshooting services.

Cisco Network Security and VPN Consulting Expertise
Cisco's security and offsite access technology represent a complete line of manageable security solutions to help safeguard your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's VPN line features routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and VPN appliances. Progent's expert staff of consultants includes experienced specialists with Cisco's CCIE and Cisco Certified Network Professional certifications who can help your business to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security technologies that align most closely with your company objectives. Find out additional information concerning Progent's Support Expertise for Cisco Security Solutions and Virtual Private Network Products.

Engineering Expertise for Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Solutions
Progent provides small and mid-size businesses professional support for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, and SonicWall. Progent can help you create a detailed security plan and select appropriate technologies from multiple suppliers to achieve your security objectives while staying within your spending restraints.

Progent's Fixed-price Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight family of network management outsourcing services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. ProSight managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to defend endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely evade legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a single platform to automate the entire malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and post-attack 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 defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) services offer affordable multi-layer security for physical servers and virtual machines, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for continuously monitoring and reacting to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering via cutting-edge tools incorporated within a single agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your company's unique needs and that allows you achieve and demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data security regulations. Progent will assist you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your network and respond to alarms that require urgent attention. Progent's consultants can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange filtering.

ProSight DPS: Managed Backup
ProSight Data Protection Services from Progent provide small and medium-sized businesses an affordable and fully managed service for secure backup/disaster recovery. For a fixed monthly cost, ProSight DPS automates and monitors your backup processes and enables rapid restoration of critical files, apps and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to hardware breakdowns, software bugs, disasters, human mistakes, or malicious attacks like ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you protect, recover and restore files, folders, apps, system images, plus Microsoft Hyper-V and VMware images/. Important data can be backed up on the cloud, to a local storage device, or to both. Progent's BDR consultants can provide advanced expertise to set up ProSight Data Protection Services to to comply with regulatory requirements like HIPAA, FIRPA, PCI and Safe Harbor and, when necessary, can help you to restore your critical data. Read more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of leading data security vendors to deliver web-based management and comprehensive security for your email traffic. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway device to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's Cloud Protection Layer acts as a first line of defense and keeps the vast majority of unwanted email from reaching your network firewall. This reduces your exposure to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway device adds a further level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local gateway can also assist Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays within your corporate firewall. For more details, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its critical servers and applications hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host set up and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system platforms, and the applications. Since the environment is virtualized, it can be ported immediately to a different hosting environment without requiring a lengthy and technically risky reinstallation procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into one hosting service. Find out more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that makes it easy to create, maintain, find and protect data related to your network infrastructure, processes, applications, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save up to half of time spent searching for vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and sharing all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the data you require the instant you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Certified Network Security Consulting
Any company should have a thoroughly thought out security strategy that includes both preventive processes and reaction plans. The proactive strategy is a collection of mechanisms intended to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy helps your security personnel to assess the damage caused by an attack, fix the network, record the event, and get business functions restored as quickly as feasible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants are available to help you to perform a comprehensive vulnerability assessment and create a company-wide security strategy to establish security processes and mechanisms to mitigate ongoing attacks and dangers.

CISM Accredited Network Security Engineering Assistance
The Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) organization defines the core capabilities and international standards of performance that IT security professionals are expected to master. It gives business management the confidence that consultants who have qualified for their CISM credential have the background and capability to deliver efficient security administration and consulting services. Progent offers the services of CISM Certified security professionals to assist businesses with:

  • Network Security Strategies
  • Risk Management
  • Network Security Program Management
  • IS Security Administration
  • Response Management
Find out more details concerning Progent's CISM Qualified IS Security Consulting Expertise.

CISSP Accredited Security Engineering Assistance
The CISSP credential denotes expertise with a global standard for network security. The American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential recognition in the field of information protection under ISO/IEC 17024. Progent can provide the services of security experts who have qualified for CISSP accreditation. Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a broad range of security areas such as:

  • Security Administration Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Paradigms
  • Access Management Solutions and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Encryption/Decryption Technology
  • Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Learn additional details about Progent's CISSP Network Security Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified information system architecture engineers are experts who have been awarded ISSAP status as a result of thorough testing and extensive work with network security architecture. The Information System Security Architecture Professional (ISSAP) certification represents demonstrated skill in the most complex demands of IS security architecture within the broader field of information security knowledge needed for CISSP accreditation. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecom and Network Protection
  • Data Encryption Options
  • Requirements Evaluation and Security Guidelines
  • BCP and Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP)
  • Hardware Security
Learn additional information concerning Progent's ISSAP Qualified Secure System Architecture Engineering Professionals.

CISA Qualified Security Auditing Engineering Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA accreditation requires that consultants pass an extensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent's CISA-qualified network security audit engineers are available to help your business in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Process
  • IT Administration
  • Network Assets and Architecture Lifecycle
  • Information Technology Service Delivery
  • Protecting Data Resources
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out additional information about Progent's CISA Qualified Security Auditing Engineering Support.

CRISC Experts
The CRISC program was established by ISACA in 2010 to verify an IT professional's skills to design, deploy, and support information system controls to reduce network risk. Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant to help you to develop and carry out a workplace continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified IT risk management experts offer a variety of risk evaluation services including:

  • Gather data and study documentation to evaluate significant risk scenarios
  • Identify statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements and organizational policies related to your network to determine their potential impact on your business goals
  • Point out potential vulnerabilities for your operational processes to assist in evaluating your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and provide seminars to ensure your organization understand IS risk so they can contribute to your risk management program
  • Connect identified risk scenarios to related business procedures to help determine risk ownership
  • Validate risk appetite with your senior leadership and key stakeholders to make sure they match
Get more information about Progent's Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Experts.

GIAC Qualified Information System Security Consulting Assistance
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to certify the knowledge of IT security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that a certified security consultant has the skills necessary to deliver services in key categories of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and government organizations around the world including and the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). Progent's GIAC-qualified security audit engineers can help your business with:

  • Auditing Perimeters
  • Security Incident Response
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Web-based Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Find out more details about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Talk to a Certified Security Specialist
To see how you can access a certified security consultant for online or on-premises assistance in Minnesota, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Remote Computer Support.

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