Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

To get fast remote help with network security problems, businesses in Sioux Falls South Dakota have access to world-class troubleshooting by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote service staff is ready to provide efficient and economical help with security emergencies that are impacting the viability of your network. Progent's accredited engineers are certified to support systems powered by Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced support for critical security and restoration technologies like AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restore testing, immutable backup, and off-premises backup. Progent's wide array of services covers firewall expertise, email security, protected network infrastructure, and disaster recovery preparedness. Progent's support staff has been awarded the industry's top security credentials including Global Information Assurance Certification and Information System Security Architecture Professional.

Progent offers online security assistance on a per-minute basis without minimum call duration and no extra fees for setup or after hours service. By billing per minute and by delivering world-class help, Progent's pricing structure keeps expenses under control and eliminates scenarios where simple solutions turn into big expenses.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware requires time to steal its way across a network. For this reason, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff are likely to be slower to recognize a breach and are less able to mount a quick and coordinated response. The more lateral movement ransomware can make inside a target's network, the more time it takes to recover core IT services and scrambled files and the more data can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is intended to assist organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's remote ransomware experts can help businesses to identify and quarantine breached servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, don't panic. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Hacked: What Are We Supposed to Do?
If your business is currently experiencing a network security emergency other than ransomware, visit Progent's Emergency Online Network Support to see how to receive fast help. Progent maintains a pool of seasoned network security experts who offer remote and onsite support that includes threat containment, mitigation, restoration, forensics, and enhancement of your cybersecurity posture to protect against future attacks.

For organizations that have planned beforehand for an attack, the formal post-attack response procedure promoted by GIAC is Progent's recommended method of reacting to a serious security attack.

Introduction to Security Services
Managing network security and preparedness for recovering vital data and systems after a security breach demands an on-going process involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security consultants can assist your business at all levels in your attempt to secure your information network, from security evaluation to designing a complete security program. Important areas covered by Progent's security consultants include Planning and Prevention, Information Restoration and Security Forensics, and Managed Filtering of E-mail-Based Spam and Viruses.

Designing and Implementing Protected Environments
Any organization should develop a thoroughly thought out security plan that includes both proactive and reactive activity. The pre-attack strategy is a set of precautions that helps to reduce security gaps. The reactive plan specifies procedures to help security personnel to inventory the damage caused by a breach, remediate the damage, record the experience, and restore network activity as quickly as feasible. Progent can advise you how to design security into your company operations. Progent can configure scanning utilities, create and implement a secure IT architecture, and recommend processes and policies that will optimize the safety of your network. Progent's security experts are available to assist you to configure a firewall, deploy protected online and mobile connectivity to email and data, and configure an efficient virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is interested in an affordable option for outsourcing your security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Options feature automated online server monitoring and fast resolution of problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can assist your IT team you to design, implement, administer and repair enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine physical and cloud-based infrastructure and that are compliant with government data security standards. (Find out about Progent's Microsoft 365 integration solutions with on-premises installations of Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) planning and integration expertise.)

System Restoration and Security Forensics
Progent provides skill in recovering systems and devices that have been hacked, are in question, or have failed following a security penetration. Progent can help determine the damage resulting from the assault, return your company to normal functions, and recover data compromised as a result of the attack. Progent's certified engineers can also manage a comprehensive forensic evaluation by examining activity logs and using other advanced forensics techniques. Progent's experience with security consulting reduces your downtime and allows Progent to suggest efficient measures to prevent or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Removal and Restoration Consulting
Progent can provide the help of proven ransomware recovery consultants with the skills to reconstruct an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, Dharma, Hermes, or MongoLock. To find out more, see ransomware removal and recovery services.

Work-from-Home Security Consulting
At-home employees commonly use their own computers and usually work in a unsecured physical space. This situation increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of at-home workforce support consultants can assist you to design, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that protects vital information resources in networks that include telecommuters as well as hybrid workers.

Software/Firmware Update Management Services
Progent's support services for software and firmware patch management offer businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective solution for assessing, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting updates to your dynamic information network. Besides maximizing the security and functionality of your IT environment, Progent's patch management services permit your in-house IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver the highest business value from your information network. Learn more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that features computer learning software and advanced services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response (Singularity EDR) and extended detection and response (Singularity XDR). SentinelOne's small-footprint agents can be installed in a few minutes to protect popular endpoints against modern assaults including ransomware, known and new malware, trojans, hacking tools, RAM exploits, script misuse, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) abuse. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner and dealer and manages thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne Singularity technology. SentinelOne is invariably the initial incident response software deployed by Progent to provide control and visibility of a client's system at the outset of a ransomware recovery. For additional details, see Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response (XDR) services.

Consulting Services for Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Products
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver repeated, concurrent, automated assessment of your internal and perimeter network to help you find, prioritize, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. NodeZero pentests can deploy decoys called tripwires such as bogus files or credentials to find out whether your environment is being probed along key attack vectors. Tripwires generate sufficient information to allow you to take action promptly with your SIEM tools and procedures before an attacker can wreak havoc. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator who can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth intrusion checking is an important part of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal network support resources. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion incident alerts and event log monitoring are correctly configured and actively monitored. Progent can implement ongoing automatic penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, stolen credentials, missing patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks typical of modern strains of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Assessment Experts.

Progent's Flat-rate Managed Services for Information Security
Progent's low-cost ProSight series of network monitoring and management 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: Next Generation Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Recovery
ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's cutting edge behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices and servers and VMs against new malware assaults like ransomware and file-less exploits, which routinely escape traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects local and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to address the entire threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Key capabilities include single-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) endpoint protection and ransomware recovery based on SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection: Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) managed services deliver economical multi-layer security for physical and virtual servers, desktops, smartphones, and Exchange Server. ProSight ESP uses contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and reacting to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a single control. Progent's security and virtualization experts can assist you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP environment that addresses your company's unique needs and that helps you demonstrate compliance with legal and industry data protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and react to alerts that require urgent attention. Progent can also help you to install and test a backup and restore solution such as ProSight Data Protection Services so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack like ransomware. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup
Progent has worked with leading backup technology vendors to create ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a selection of management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your backup processes and allow non-disruptive backup and fast restoration of vital files, applications, system images, and virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps you protect against data loss resulting from equipment failures, natural disasters, fire, malware such as ransomware, user error, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed services available in the ProSight Data Protection selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight MSP360 Cloud and On-prem Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your network.

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 data security vendors to provide centralized management and world-class protection for your inbound and outbound email. The powerful structure of Email Guard integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway device to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks (DHAs), and other email-based threats. Email Guard's cloud filter serves as a preliminary barricade and blocks most threats from reaching your network firewall. This decreases your exposure to inbound attacks and conserves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a deeper level of analysis for incoming email. For outbound email, the local gateway provides anti-virus and anti-spam filtering, protection against data leaks, and email encryption. The on-premises security gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and safeguard internal email that originates and ends inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication Solutions
Progent's Duo MFA managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's Tier III Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small business can have its key servers and apps hosted in a secure fault tolerant data center on a high-performance virtual machine host configured and managed by Progent's network support professionals. Under the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the client retains ownership of the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be moved easily to an alternate hardware solution without a time-consuming and technically risky reinstallation process. 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 allows you to create, maintain, retrieve and safeguard information related to your IT infrastructure, procedures, business apps, and services. You can quickly locate passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about impending expirations of SSL certificates or warranties. By updating and organizing your IT documentation, you can save as much as half of time thrown away searching for critical information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your business network like standard operating procedures and How-To's. ProSight IT Asset Management also offers a high level of automation for collecting and associating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or responding to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you require when you need it. Learn more details about ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Specialized Security Services Available from Progent
Progent's security engineers offer world-class support in key facets of network security such as:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk evaluation tools such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a variety of comprehensive network scans to identify potential security holes. Progent has extensive skills with these and similar utilities and can assist you to analyze audit results and react appropriately. Progent's certified security consultants also offer web application testing and can conduct expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to determine your company's compliance with important industry security specifications including HIPAA, PCI, and ISO 17799. Also, Progent can assess the strength of your wireless protection covering in-place wireless appliances plus mobile handsets. Find out additional details concerning Progent's Security Vulnerability Evaluation and Security Compliance Testing.

Cisco Security, PIX Firewall and ASA Firewall, VPN, Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can deliver world-class technical expertise for Cisco's complete range of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) technologies including PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA Series Firewalls, the Catalyst Firewall Services Module, secure broadband and integrated services routers, wireless access points, Cisco Meraki cloud-managed access points, and Catalyst family switches. Read additional details concerning Cisco Security, Virtual Private Network and Wireless Expertise.

Other Firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) Technologies
As well as supporting a wide range of protection technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent offers companies of any size advanced consulting for products from other important firewall and VPN suppliers. Progent's consultants can provide:

• Palo Alto Networks PA-Series Firewalls Integration
• Check Point Software Technologies Consulting
• Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Experts
• WatchGuard Technologies Technical Assistance
• Juniper and NetScreen Integration
• SonicWall Consulting
• Fortinet FortiGate Firewall Support
• Symantec Corp Technical Assistance

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Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's CISSP experts are security specialists who have earned CISSP status through demonstrated professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification recognizes mastery of a worldwide standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP status official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. Areas of expertise covered under CISSP include cybersecurity management procedures, security design and models, connection permission systems, software development security, operations security, physical security, encryption, communications, network security, and business continuity planning.

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CISSP-ISSAP Certified Experts for Secure Network Architecture
Progent's ISSAP Certified security experts have been awarded ISSAP status following rigorous examination and extensive experience. field experience with information security design. ISSAP security experts possess in-depth knowledge of access management systems and techniques, telecommunications and network protection, cryptography, needs evaluation, business continuity planning (BCP) and disaster recovery, and physical security integration. Progent's ISSAP-premier security specialists can help your business with all aspects of architecture security.

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CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Consultants
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the expertise expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, or senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to follow current system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that include compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop effective configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and recommend practical security models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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

Certified Information Systems Auditor Professional Services
The Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) accreditation is a recognized achievement that signifies expertise in network security audit and control. Certified by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the CISA credential has consultants pass an exhaustive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent can provide the expertise of a CISA-Certified security engineer able to assist companies in the areas of IS audit services, IT governance, network assets and architecture lifecycle, information technology support, protecting information resources, and disaster recovery planning.

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CRISC Network Risk Management Specialists
The Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC) certification program was established by ISACA in 2010 to validate a consultant's ability to plan, deploy, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the expertise of a CRISC-certified engineer to help you to create and carry out a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy that follows industry best practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your company's risk appetite, business goals, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for impartially assessing your IS management mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified experts for designing company-wide security policies and procedures.

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Global Information Assurance Certification Support Services
GIAC was established in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's mission is to ensure that an accredited professional possesses the skills needed to deliver services in important areas of system, information, and program security. GIAC certifications are recognized by businesses and institutions all over the world including U.S. NSA. Progent can provide the expertise of certified security engineers for any of the network security capabilities covered within GIAC certification programs such as assessing networks, incident response, intrusion detection, web-based application security, and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions.

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Contact Progent for Network Security Help
If your business is situated in Sioux Falls South Dakota and you need cybersecurity engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.

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