Security and Compliance and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with data security problems, companies in Minnetonka Minnesota have access to world-class expertise from Progent's security engineers. Progent's online support staff is available to offer efficient and economical assistance with security problems that threaten the productivity of your information system. Progent's accredited consultants are certified to provide help for environments powered by Microsoft, Linux, Apple macOS and OS X, and major versions of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for vital cybersecurity and restoration technologies such as AI-based EDR (End Point Protection and Response), MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore validation, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad selection of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure system architecture, and business continuity planning. Progent's technical support team has earned the world's most advanced security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers remote security support on a per-minute basis with no minimum minutes and no extra charges for setup or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by providing top-level support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and avoids situations where simple solutions entail big charges.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a network. Because of this, ransomware attacks are typically unleashed on weekends and at night, when support personnel are likely to be slower to become aware of a break-in and are less able to mount a quick and coordinated defense. The more lateral movement ransomware can manage inside a victim's network, the more time it takes to recover core operations and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by containing the malware. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can assist businesses to identify and quarantine infected devices and protect undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our Network Has Been Hacked: What Can We Do?
If your business is now fighting a security crisis other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Technical Support to learn how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned cybersecurity experts who offer online and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity defense to guard against future attacks.

For companies that have planned beforehand for being hacked, the step-by-step post-attack response model promoted by Global Information Assurance Certification is Progent's preferred method of responding to a major security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing data protection and planning for restoring critical data and systems following an attack requires an on-going effort involving a variety of tools and procedures. Progent's certified consultants can assist your business at whatever level in your attempt to guard your information network, from security assessments to creating a comprehensive security plan. Important technologies supported by Progent's security consultants include Security Planning and Prevention, Data Recovery and Security Forensics, and Outsourced Protection from E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any business should have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both preventive and responsive elements. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that works to minimize vulnerabilities. The reactive plan defines procedures to assist IT staff to evaluate the losses resulting from a breach, remediate the damage, document the event, and revive business functions as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your business processes. Progent can install scanning software, define and execute a secure IT architecture, and recommend procedures and policies to enhance the safety of your computing environment. Progent's security experts are ready to help you to configure a firewall, design safe offsite access to e-mail and data, and install an effective virtual private network.

If you are looking for an economical option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's Round-the-clock Network Support Services include continual online network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, manage and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud infrastructure and that are compliant with regulatory data security requirements. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange deployments, Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services (AWS) enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration consulting.)

System Recovery and Failure Analysis
Progent offers skill in restoring networks and devices that have been compromised, are in question, or have ceased to function as a result of a security breach. Progent can show you how to evaluate the damage caused by the attack, return your company to ordinary business operations, and recover data lost as a result of the assault. Progent's security engineers can also perform a thorough failure evaluation by examining activity logs and utilizing a variety of proven forensics techniques. Progent's background with security issues minimizes your off-air time and permits Progent to suggest effective strategies to prevent or mitigate new assaults.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Consulting
Progent offers the help of seasoned ransomware recovery consultants with the knowledge to reconstruct an IT network victimized by a ransomware cryptoworm like Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or Locky. For more information, see ransomware cleanup and recovery consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Solutions
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of telecommuter solutions consultants can assist your business to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that include telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management offer businesses of all sizes a flexible and cost-effective alternative for assessing, validating, scheduling, applying, and documenting updates to your dynamic IT network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your in-house IT staff to concentrate on more strategic initiatives and activities that derive maximum business value from your network. Find out more about Progent's patch management support services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product line is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management stack that features computer learning software and expert services to deliver enterprise-class endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint software agents can be loaded in a few minutes to protect endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, memory exploits, script misuse, harmful macros, and living-off-the-land abuse. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is invariably the first EDR response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system in the first stages of a ransomware emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that can deliver continuous, simultaneous, programmable testing of your network so you can find, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert so-called tripwires such as bogus credentials to detect when your system is being probed along key attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient detail to make it possible to take action promptly with your incident response workflows before an attacker can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the skills of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Stealth Penetration Security Testing Services
Stealth intrusion testing is a key part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can perform thorough penetration tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house network support staff. Unannounced penetration testing shows whether existing security defense systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event log monitoring are properly set up and actively monitored. Progent can provide continuous automatic penetration testing to define your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, improper configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and unsound product defaults can be combined by hackers into the multi-front attacks common to the latest versions of ransomware. Get additional information about Progent's Stealth PEN Testing Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's value-priced ProSight line of managed services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all aspects of information assurance. Managed services available from Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): 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 analysis technology to defend endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against modern malware attacks like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely get by traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM safeguards local and cloud resources and provides a single platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including blocking, infiltration detection, containment, cleanup, and post-attack forensics. Key capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered threats. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Endpoint Security
ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver ultra-affordable in-depth protection for physical servers and virtual machines, workstations, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and modern behavior analysis for round-the-clock monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge technologies incorporated within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization consultants can help you to design and implement a ProSight ESP environment that meets your organization's unique requirements and that helps you prove 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 IT environment and respond to alerts that require immediate attention. Progent can also help your company to install and test a backup and restore system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup technology companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a portfolio of offerings that deliver backup-as-a-service. All ProSight DPS services automate and monitor your data backup operations and allow transparent backup and rapid recovery of important files, apps, images, and VMs. ProSight DPS helps your business avoid data loss resulting from hardware failures, natural disasters, fire, cyber attacks such as ransomware, user mistakes, malicious insiders, or application bugs. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection product line include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda purpose-built hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent expert can help you to determine which of these managed backup services are most appropriate for your IT environment.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering service that incorporates the technology of top information security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive protection for all your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with a local gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Dos Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based malware. The cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises gateway device provides a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the on-premises gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, see Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second form of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its key servers and applications hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a high-performance virtual host configured and managed by Progent's network support experts. Under Progent's 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 an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and technically risky configuration process. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not tied one hosting provider. Learn more about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation and Password Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is an IT infrastructure documentation management service that makes it easy to capture, update, find and protect information about your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted about impending expirations of SSL certificates or domains. By cleaning up and organizing your IT infrastructure documentation, you can eliminate as much as 50% of time wasted searching for critical information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a common repository for holding and collaborating on all documents required for managing your business network like standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, doing maintenance, or reacting to an emergency, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you need the instant you need it. Learn more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Expertise Available from Progent
Progent's certified security consultants can provide unique consulting support in key areas of computer protection such as:

Security Vulnerability Audits and Security Compliance Assessment
Progent offers expertise with information risk evaluation software like Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer and LANguard from GFI for conducting a variety of comprehensive system tests to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with testing tools and can assist you to analyze assessment reports and react appropriately. Progent's certified security engineers also can perform web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of corporate-wide security to assess your company's compliance with major industry security specifications such as HIPAA, NIST, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can evaluate the strength of your wireless protection including stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Find out more information about Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Support
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide in-depth consulting expertise for Cisco's entire family of security and Virtual Private Network solutions such as PIX Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, Catalyst Firewall Services Module (FWSM), protected broadband and IS routers, wireless access points and bridges, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst Series switches. Get more details about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Aironet Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network Consulting Services
In addition to supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of all sizes advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Consulting
• Check Point Software Support
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Consulting
• WatchGuard Technologies Inc Help
• Juniper/NetScreen Configuration Help
• SonicWall Inc. Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Expertise
• Symantec Engineering Services

Read more information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Services
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are security engineers who have been awarded CISSP accreditation through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and exhaustive testing. CISSP Certification indicates expertise in a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise included within CISSP include security administration practices, security architecture and test systems, connection permission systems, applications development security, business processes security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Find out more details about Progent's CISSP Consulting Expertise.

CISSP-ISSAP Premier Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have earned ISSAP accreditation as a result of thorough examination and significant hands-on work with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth understanding of access management systems and methodologies, phone system and network infrastructure security, cryptography, needs evaluation, BCP and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-certified security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

Learn additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Infrastructure Consulting Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Premier Cybersecurity Engineering Experts
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide enterprises with the services associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security expert to help your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering leading practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all critical system functions, develop effective design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational goals with your organization's tolerance for risk.

Find out more about Progent's CISSP-ISSEP Cybersecurity Engineering Consulting Services.

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Consulting Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor accreditation is an important achievement that signifies expertise in information system security audit and control. Certified by ANSI, the CISA accreditation has consultants undergo an extensive examination administered by the ISACA international professional group. Progent can provide the services of a CISA-Premier security professional trained to help companies in the areas of IS audit services, information technology administration, systems and architecture planned useful life, IT service delivery, protecting data resources, and disaster recovery preparedness.

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CRISC-certified Network Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to validate a consultant's ability to plan, implement, and maintain information system controls to reduce risk. Progent offers the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to match your company's risk tolerance, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management expertise is a good fit the support provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively auditing your IT control mechanisms and also with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for defining company-wide security policies and procedures.

Read the details about Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Mitigation Support.

GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) Professional Services
Global Information Assurance Certification was established in 1999 to validate the skill of information technology security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that a certified security consultant possesses the knowledge appropriate to deliver support in important categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions throughout the world including United States National Security Agency (NSA). Progent offers the help of GIAC certified professionals for all of the network security capabilities addressed within GIAC certification topics including auditing perimeters, security incident handling, intrusion detection, web services security, and SIEM solutions.

Learn more information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Contact Progent for Network Security Consulting Services
If your organization is located in Minnetonka Minnesota and you want computer security consulting expertise, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.

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Progent offers consulting services and onsite technical support throughout the Twin Cities Metro Area.