Business IT networks in North Dakota can now get quick and affordable remote technical support from Progent's qualified security experts to fix the toughest security problems. Rates are affordable, charges are by the minute, engagement is immediate, and service is unbeatable. Progent also offers assistance for complex engagements that demand the knowledge of senior security engineers with top industry certifications.

If your North Dakota office is located some distance from major urban neighborhoods like Fargo, Bismark, or Grand Forks, support from local certified security engineers may be limited when there's an urgent situation. This can result in a drop in income for your business, upset customers, idle employees, and distracted management. By contacting Progent, you have access to a Certified security consultant who can offer assistance when you have to have it to get your information system operating and salvage your information.

Progent can help you in your efforts to defend your IT environment with services ranging from security assessments to developing a company-wide security strategy. Progent provides economical support to assist small and midsize companies to set up and manage secure IT environments powered by Windows and Cisco products and that may include computers running UNIX, Linux, Sun Solaris, or Mac OS X platforms plus mobile clients with Apple iOS handhelds or Android or Windows Phone smart phones and tablets.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to help organizations to complete the time-critical first steps in responding to a ransomware attack by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware engineers can help you to locate and isolate breached devices and protect clean assets from being penetrated.

If your network has been breached 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 help you outsource spam blocking and defense against e-mail-based attacks. Email Guard is Progent's email security platform that uses the services and infrastructure of leading information security companies to provide web-based control and comprehensive security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid structure of Email Guard managed service combines cloud-based filtering with an on-premises gateway appliance to provide advanced protection against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, DHAs, and other email-borne malware. ProSight Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. ProSight Email Guard's onsite gateway device provides a deeper level of analysis for inbound email. For outbound email, the local gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also enable Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email traffic that stays inside your corporate firewall.

Progent's certified professionals are available remotely or on site to offer a range of emergency or project-based network security services which include:

If your network has an emergency requirement for computer security help, refer to Progent's Urgent Remote Technical Support.

Progent's support professionals provide advanced support in key areas of system protection including analysis, firewall/VPN support, and advanced security consulting.

Security Assessment
Progent's expert security consultants can evaluate the effectiveness of your existing computer protection environment by performing exhaustive remote automated testing based on advanced software tools and tested techniques. Progent's skill in this testing saves your company time and money and offers an accurate portrayal of security holes. The information your business is provided can form the basis of a network protection strategy that will allow your network to run dependably and adapt quickly to new risks.

Automated Network Vulnerability Analysis
Progent offers consulting in the application of security evaluation packages including Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) and GFI LANguard NSS for economically performing a variety of automatic system testing scans to identify possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with additional security auditing utilities including NMAP, AMAP Application Scanner, eEye Vulnerability Scanner, as well as utilities like SolarWinds, Netcat, Hydra, and Nikto. Progent can show you how to understand audit reports and react effectively.

Progent can show you how to build security into your company processes, install auditing applications, define and deploy a protected system architecture, and recommend policies to maximize the safety of your network. Progent's security engineers are ready to assist you to configure a firewall, design safe remote access to email and data, and integrate VPN. Learn more concerning Progent's automated security analysis.

Security Inventory Service Bundles for Small Businesses
Progent has put together two low-cost security inventory scanning bundles designed to enable small companies to get an objective security evaluation from an accredited security consultant. With Progent's External Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a comprehensive examination of your network from beyond your firewalled perimeter to determine potential risks in the security posture you present to the public. With Progent's Internal Network Security Inventory Scan, a security expert runs a system scan from a secure machine within your company firewall to assess the risk to internal assaults. The two security inventory services are set up and run from a protected remote location. The project is overseen by a consultant with top security credentials and who produces a report that details and interprets the information collected by the security scan and suggests cost-effective remediation if called for.

Support for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Solutions
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports repeated, simultaneous, programmable assessment of your network so you can uncover, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Stealth Security Penetration Analysis Support Services
Stealth intrusion testing is an important part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run extensive intrusion tests without the knowledge of your organization's in-house IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log analysis are correctly configured and consistently monitored. Find out more concerning Progent's network penetration analysis consulting.

Firewalls and VPN Solutions
Progent's expertise in security solutions encompasses extensive familiarity with major firewalls and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology offered by a variety of vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, Juniper Netyworks and Watch Guard. Progent offers the services of consultants who have earned important networking certifications such as Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer.

Cisco ASA 5500-X Firewalls with Firepower, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and PIX 500 Firewalls Configuration and Troubleshooting
The new Cisco ASA 5500-X Series of firewalls with Firepower Services provide significantly more bang for the buck than Cisco's legacy PIX and ASA 5500 firewalls and have replaced the ASA 5500 and PIX firewalls for new installations. Since Cisco's purchase of Sourcefire, the entire line of ASA 5500-X firewalls can be provisioned to support Firepower Services, built on Sourcefire's Snort technology, which is the world's most popular intrusion protection system. Firepower services bring enhanced capabilities such as advanced malware protection (AMP), URL filtering, real-time threat analytics, and security automation. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help your company to maintain your legacy PIX or Cisco ASA 5500 security appliances or upgrade efficiently to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. Progent's consultants can provide remote and onsite support for ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services and can assist your organization to design, deploy, tune, administer and troubleshoot firewall solutions based around Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services. See additional information about ASA Firewalls with Firepower Services integration and debugging support.

Cisco Security and VPN Consulting Services
Cisco's network security and offsite connection products provide a comprehensive line of easy-to-administer security products to help protect your local and remote network infrastructure. Cisco's Virtual Private Network line features switches, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and Virtual Private Network concentrators. Progent's professional consulting staff includes experienced engineers with Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and CCNP certifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco VPN, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align most closely with your company goals. Learn more details about Progent's Consulting Services for Cisco Security Technology and Virtual Private Network Appliances.

Engineering Expertise for Additional Firewall and Virtual Private Network Products
Progent offers small and medium size organizations expert support for Intrusion Protection products and IPsec VPN products from major firewall and Virtual Private Network security companies such as WatchGuard, Juniper, and Symantec. Progent can show you how to create a detailed security strategy and select the right technologies from multiple suppliers to support your security goals while sticking within your spending restraints.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of outsourced network management services is designed to provide small and mid-size businesses with enterprise-class support and cutting-edge technology for all facets of information assurance and compliance. Managed services offered by Progent include:

ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM): Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that utilizes SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior-based machine learning technology to defend endpoints as well as servers and VMs against modern malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching AV products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key features include single-click rollback with Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. Read more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware defense based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services deliver economical multi-layer protection for physical servers and VMs, workstations, smartphones, and Microsoft Exchange. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced heuristics for round-the-clock monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides two-way firewall protection, penetration alerts, endpoint management, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified control. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that addresses your organization's specific needs and that allows you demonstrate compliance with government and industry data protection standards. Progent will help you specify and configure policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alarms that call for immediate action. Progent can also help your company to set up and test a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services so you can get back in business rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified endpoint protection and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Cloud Backup and Recovery
ProSight Data Protection Services offer small and mid-sized businesses a low cost end-to-end service for secure backup/disaster recovery. Available at a low monthly price, ProSight DPS automates your backup activities and enables rapid recovery of critical data, applications and VMs that have become unavailable or damaged due to component breakdowns, software bugs, natural disasters, human error, or malware attacks such as ransomware. ProSight DPS can help you back up, retrieve and restore files, folders, apps, system images, as well as Hyper-V and VMware virtual machine images. Important data can be protected on the cloud, to an on-premises storage device, or mirrored to both. Progent's BDR specialists can deliver world-class support to configure ProSight Data Protection Services to be compliant with government and industry regulatory standards like HIPAA, FIRPA, and PCI and, when necessary, can assist you to recover your business-critical information. Find out more about ProSight Data Protection Services Managed Backup.

ProSight Email Guard: Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Email Encryption
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam and virus filtering service that incorporates the technology of leading information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for all your inbound and outbound email. The powerful architecture of Email Guard managed service combines a Cloud Protection Layer with an on-premises gateway device to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, DHAs, and other email-based malware. The cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most unwanted email from reaching your security perimeter. This decreases your exposure to external threats and conserves system bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's onsite security gateway appliance adds a further level of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the onsite gateway provides AV and anti-spam filtering, DLP, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to monitor and safeguard internal email that originates and ends within your corporate firewall. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small or mid-size organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a protected Tier III data center on a fast virtual host configured and managed by Progent's IT support professionals. Under Progent's ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the apps. Because the system is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, your business is not locked into one hosting provider. Find out more details 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 capture, maintain, find and safeguard data related to your network infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be alerted about impending expirations of SSLs ,domains or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a common location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as standard operating procedures (SOPs) and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're planning improvements, performing maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management gets you the data you require when you need it. Find out more details about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Expert Network Security Design
Any business ought to have a carefully considered security strategy that includes both pre-attack processes and reaction planning. The pre-attack plan is a collection of procedures that help to reduce security weaknesses. The post-attack strategy assists your company's IT security personnel to assess the damage caused by a security penetration, fix the system, document the experience, and get the IT network running as soon as possible.

Progent's expert IT security consultants can to assist your business to perform a complete risk evaluation and define a company-wide security plan to implement security policies and controls to minimize ongoing attacks and threats.

CISM Qualified Information Security Support Expertise
The CISM organization defines the core capabilities and worldwide standards of performance that information security professionals are expected to learn. It gives business management the assurance that those who have qualified for their CISM certification have the experience and knowledge to deliver efficient security administration and consulting consulting. Progent can provide the support of CISM Premier security professionals to help businesses with:

  • Network Security Governance
  • Risk Management
  • IS Security Program Management
  • Information Security Management
  • Recovery Planning
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CISM Security Support Expertise.

CISSP Qualified Security Engineering Expertise
The CISSP credential recognizes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI (American National Standards Institute) has awarded certification accreditation in the field of data security stipulated by ISO 17024. Progent offers access to of security experts who have earned CISSP certification. Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a broad range of security fields including:

  • Security Administration Practices
  • Security Infrastructure and Models
  • Access Management Solutions and Processes
  • Software Development Security
  • Secure Operations
  • Site Security
  • Data Encryption Technology
  • Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
Read additional details concerning Progent's CISSP Information Security Consulting Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Qualified Secure Network Architecture Engineering Assistance
Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Certified information system architecture professionals are experts who have been awarded ISSAP Certification through thorough testing and significant experience with information security design. The ISSAP certification represents proven skill in the more in-depth demands of information security architecture within the broader scope of IS security knowledge needed for CISSP certification. Progent's ISSAP-certified security consultants can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture such as.

  • Access Control Mechanisms and Methodologies
  • Telecom and System Infrastructure Protection
  • Encryption/Decryption Solutions
  • Needs Evaluation and Security Standards
  • Business Continuity Planning and DRP
  • Hardware Security
Read additional details about Progent's ISSAP Accredited Secure System Architecture Consulting Services.

CISA Accredited Network Security Auditing Engineering Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies mastery in information system security auditing. Certified by ANSI, the CISA credential requires that consultants pass an extensive test administered by the ISACA professional association. Progent's CISA-certified security audit engineers are available to assist your company in the areas of:

  • IS Audit Services
  • Information Technology Administration
  • Systems and Architecture Planned Useful Life
  • Information Technology Service Delivery
  • Safeguarding Data Assets
  • Disaster Recovery Preparedness
Find out the details concerning Progent's CISA Certified IS Security Auditing Consulting Support.

Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) Consultants
The CRISC certification program was initiated by ISACA to validate a consultant's skills to design, deploy, and support IS controls to mitigate network risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified consultant to assist your company to develop and execute a business continuity plan based on industry best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-qualified network risk mitigation specialists offer a variety of risk assessment services such as:

  • Collect data and review documentation to identify major risk scenarios
  • Identify legal, industry, and business requirements and company standards related to your information system to assess their potential impact on your business objectives
  • Point out possible vulnerabilities for your operational workflows to help in analyzing your corporate risk
  • Develop a risk awareness initiative and conduct seminars to make sure your organization appreciate information system risk so they can assist with your risk management program
  • Match identified risk vectors to your associated operational processes to help determine risk responsibility
  • Determine risk appetite with your senior management and major stakeholders to make sure they are in agreement
Find out additional information concerning Progent's CRISC Risk Management Consultants.

GIAC Certified IS Security Engineering Assistance
GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) was founded in 1999 to validate the knowledge of information technology security professionals. GIAC's goal is to assure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in key categories of network, data, and application security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by businesses and institutions all over the world including and the U.S. NSA. Progent's GIAC-certified network security audit engineers can help your IT organization with:

  • Auditing Networks
  • Incident Handling
  • Traffic Analysis
  • Web Services Security
  • SIEM solutions
Learn additional information about Progent's GIAC Information Assurance Expertise.

Talk to a Progent Security Expert
To see how you can contact a Progent security consultant for online or onsite expertise in North Dakota, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Online Computer Help.

© 2002-2026 Progent Corporation. All rights reserved.