Cybersecurity and Information Assurance Consulting

For fast remote help with computer security issues, businesses in St. Paul Minnesota have access to world-class expertise by contacting Progent's security engineers. Progent's remote support consultants are available to provide fast and low-cost help with security issues that are impacting the productivity of your information system. Progent's security consultants are premier to support systems based on Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS and OS X, and major derivatives of UNIX. Progent can deliver advanced help for key security and restoration technologies such as AI-based End Point Protection and Response, MDR (Managed Detection and Response), complete system restoration validation and testing, immutable backup, and off-site backup. Progent's broad range of services addresses firewall technology, email filtering and encryption, secure network design, and business continuity preparedness. Progent's technical support staff has been awarded the world's top security accreditations including Certified Information Security Manager and ISSAP.

Progent provides online security expertise on a per-minute basis with no minimum call duration and no additional charges for sign-up or after hours service. By billing by the minute and by delivering world-class support, Progent's pricing model keeps costs under control and eliminates scenarios where quick solutions result in major bills.

Ransomware Hot Line: 800-462-8800
Ransomware needs time to work its way through a target network. Because of this, ransomware assaults are typically launched on weekends and late at night, when IT staff may take longer to become aware of a breach and are least able to mount a quick and forceful defense. The more lateral progress ransomware is able to achieve within a target's network, the more time it will require to restore basic IT services and scrambled files and the more information can be stolen and posted to the dark web. Progent's Ransomware Hot Line is designed to assist you to take the time-critical first phase in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware engineers can help businesses to locate and quarantine infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged resources from being penetrated. If your network has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800.

Our System Has Been Attacked: What Do We Do?
In case you are currently faced with a network security crisis other than ransomware, go to Progent's Emergency Online Technical Help to see how to receive immediate aid. Progent maintains a team of veteran cybersecurity specialists who offer remote and on-premises support that includes containment, mitigation, recovery, forensics, and hardening of your cybersecurity profile to guard against future exploits.

For companies that have prepared in advance for a security breach, the formal incident handling procedure outlined by GIAC (Global Information Assurance Certification) is Progent's recommended method of responding to a major security incident.

Introduction to Security Expertise
Coordinating data protection and preparation for recovering vital data and systems after an attack demands a continual program involving an array of tools and processes. Progent's certified security engineers can help your business at all levels in your attempt to safeguard your information network, ranging from security audits to designing a comprehensive security strategy. Some areas covered by Progent's experts include Planning and Implementation, Information Recovery and Security Failure Analysis, and Outsourced Filtering of E-mail-Borne Attacks.

Designing and Implementing Secure Networks
Every organization ought to develop a carefully considered security strategy that includes both proactive and reactive elements. The proactive strategy is a set of precautions that works to reduce vulnerabilities. The post-attack plan defines activities to help IT staff to assess the damage caused by an attack, repair the damage, record the experience, and revive network activity as soon as possible. Progent can show you how to build security into your business processes. Progent can set up auditing utilities, define and implement a safe network infrastructure, and propose procedures and policies that will optimize the protection of your information system. Progent's security experts are available to help you to configure a firewall, deploy safe online and mobile access to e-mail and information, and configure an effective virtual private network (VPN).

If your company is looking for an economical way for outsourcing your network security administration, Progent's 24x7 Network Support Services include non-stop remote network tracking and quick response to problems.

Hybrid Cloud Solutions
Progent can help your IT team you to plan, deploy, administer and troubleshoot enterprise hybrid cloud solutions that combine local and cloud-based resources and that comply with government and industry data security requirements. (Learn about Progent's Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration solutions with on-premises Exchange, Microsoft Azure enterprise hybrid cloud integration, Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions, and Google Cloud Platform planning and integration consulting.)

System Restoration and Failure Analysis
Progent provides expertise in restoring systems and servers that have been compromised, are quarantined, or have stopped working following a security breakdown. Progent can show you how to determine the losses resulting from the breach, restore ordinary business operations, and retrieve data lost as a result of the breach. Progent's certified engineers can also oversee a comprehensive failure analysis by examining event logs and utilizing other proven forensics tools. Progent's experience with security problems minimizes your business disruption and permits Progent to suggest efficient measures to avoid or contain new attacks.

Ransomware Cleanup and Restoration Expertise
Progent can provide the services of experienced ransomware recovery experts with the knowledge to rebuild an IT network compromised by a ransomware cryptoworm such as Ryuk, WannaCry, NotPetya, or MongoLock. To find out more, visit ransomware removal and restoration consulting.

Work-from-Home Security Expertise
At-home workers typically use their personal computing devices and often operate in a unsecured physical area. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of at-home workforce solutions experts can help you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that protects vital information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce and hybrid workers.

Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide businesses of any size a versatile and cost-effective alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and tracking software and firmware updates to your dynamic information network. In addition to optimizing the protection and reliability of your IT environment, Progent's software/firmware update management services allow your IT team to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your information network. Find out more about Progent's patch management services.

Extended Detection and Response Powered by SentinelOne
SentinelOne's Singularity product family is a subscription-based, cloud-centered cyberthreat management stack 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 compact agents can be loaded in minutes to protect endpoints against modern threats including ransomware, familiar and brand-new malware, trojans, hacking toolkits, RAM exploits, malicious scripts, destructive macros, and living-off-the-land (LotL) attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner and dealer and oversees thousands of endpoints secured by SentinelOne technology. SentinelOne is always the initial incident response software deployed by Progent to gain control and visibility of a customer's network at the outset of a ransomware recovery emergency. For more information, refer to Progent's SentinelOne-powered Extended Detection and Response solutions.

Expertise with Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform
NodeZero from Horizon3.ai is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) platform that supports continuous, concurrent, programmable testing of your network so you can uncover, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. NodeZero pentests can strategically insert decoys called tripwires like fake files or credentials to detect whether your environment is being targeted across common attack paths. Tripwires provide sufficient detail to make it possible to react promptly with your incident response tools and procedures before an assailant can compromise your environment. Progent can provide the expertise of a NodeZero Certified Operator (NCO) who can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist 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, multi-cloud, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Stealth Penetration Security Assessment Services
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any comprehensive IT system security strategy. Progent's security professionals can run thorough penetration checks without the knowledge of your company's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration checking shows whether current security defense tools such as intrusion incident warnings and event log monitoring are properly set up and actively observed. Progent can implement ongoing automatic penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, harvested credentials, overlooked patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-vector attacks common to modern variants of ransomware. Learn more about Progent's Stealth Penetration Intrusion Testing Consultants.

Progent's Low-Cost Managed Services for Information Assurance
Progent's value-priced ProSight portfolio of network monitoring and management services is designed to provide small and mid-size organizations with enterprise-class support and state-of-the-art 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
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection service that incorporates SentinelOne's next generation behavior machine learning tools to guard endpoint devices as well as servers and VMs against new malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily escape legacy signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight Active Security Monitoring protects on-premises and cloud resources and provides a unified platform to automate the complete malware attack progression including filtering, infiltration detection, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time network-wide immunization against new attacks. Progent is a certified SentinelOne Partner. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring endpoint protection and ransomware defense powered by SentinelOne technology.

ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Unified Physical and Virtual Endpoint Security
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection services deliver economical in-depth security for physical servers and VMs, desktops, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP uses adaptive security and advanced heuristics for continuously monitoring and responding to cyber assaults from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP delivers firewall protection, intrusion alarms, endpoint management, and web filtering via leading-edge tools packaged within a single agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can help you to plan and configure a ProSight ESP deployment that meets your organization's unique needs and that allows you prove compliance with legal and industry data protection standards. Progent will assist you specify and configure security policies that ProSight ESP will manage, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alerts that call for immediate attention. Progent can also assist your company to install and verify a backup and disaster recovery system like ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover rapidly from a destructive cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP) unified physical and virtual endpoint security and Exchange email filtering.

ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Recovery
Progent has partnered with leading backup/restore product companies to create ProSight Data Protection Services, a portfolio of subscription-based management offerings that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). All ProSight DPS products manage and track your data backup processes and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of vital files/folders, applications, system images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business recover from data loss resulting from hardware breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, user mistakes, ill-intentioned insiders, or software glitches. Managed backup services available in the ProSight DPS selection include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup with immutable cloud storage, ProSight 365 Backup (formerly Altaro Office 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup using Barracuda dedicated storage, and ProSight DPS 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: Inbound and Outbound Spam Filtering, Data Leakage Protection and Content Filtering
ProSight Email Guard is Progent's spam filtering and email encryption service that uses the technology of top information security vendors to deliver web-based management and world-class security for your inbound and outbound email. The hybrid architecture of Progent's Email Guard integrates a Cloud Protection Layer with a local security gateway appliance to offer complete defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne malware. Email Guard's cloud filter acts as a preliminary barricade and blocks the vast majority of unwanted email from making it to your security perimeter. This reduces your vulnerability to inbound threats and saves network bandwidth and storage space. Email Guard's onsite gateway appliance provides a further layer of analysis for inbound email. For outgoing email, the on-premises security gateway offers anti-virus and anti-spam protection, policy-based Data Loss Prevention, and email encryption. The on-premises gateway can also assist Exchange Server to track and protect internal email that stays inside your security perimeter. For more information, visit ProSight Email Guard spam and content filtering.

ProSight Duo MFA: Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services
Progent's Duo MFA managed services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

ProSight Virtual Hosting: Hosted VMs at Progent's World-class Data Center
With ProSight Virtual Hosting service, a small organization can have its critical servers and apps hosted in a secure Tier III data center on a fast virtual host set up and maintained by Progent's IT support professionals. With the ProSight Virtual Hosting model, the customer owns the data, the operating system software, and the applications. Because the environment is virtualized, it can be ported easily to a different hardware environment without a lengthy and difficult configuration procedure. With ProSight Virtual Hosting, you are not locked into a single hosting provider. Learn more details about ProSight Virtual Hosting services.

ProSight IT Asset Management: IT Documentation and Password Management
Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to create, update, find and safeguard information related to your network infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can instantly find passwords or IP addresses and be warned automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates or domains and warranties. By cleaning up and managing your IT documentation, you can save as much as 50% of time spent trying to find vital information about your IT network. ProSight IT Asset Management includes a centralized location for holding and collaborating on all documents related to managing your business network such as standard operating procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports advanced automation for gathering and associating IT data. Whether you're making enhancements, performing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the knowledge you need as soon as you need it. Learn more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.

Special Security Expertise Offered by Progent
Progent's certified security consultants offer unique specialized help in vital facets of computer security including:

Vulnerability Evaluation and Compliance Assessment
Progent offers experience with information risk auditing software such as Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer or LANguard for conducting a set of automatic system scans to reveal possible security gaps. Progent has broad experience with scanning tools and can help you to understand assessment results and react appropriately. Progent's security consultants also provide web software validation and can perform expert evaluation of enterprise-wide security to assess your organization's compliance with important global security specifications including FISMA, PCI, and ISO. Also, Progent can evaluate the effectiveness of your wireless security covering stationary wireless equipment as well as portable devices. Read additional information concerning Progent's Information Risk Audits and Compliance Assessment.

Cisco Security, PIX and ASA Firewall, Virtual Private Network (VPN), Aironet and Meraki Wi-Fi Help
Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts and Cisco Certified Network Professionals can provide world-class technical support for Cisco's entire family of protection and Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions such as PIX 500 Series Firewalls and ASA 5500 Firewalls, Catalyst FWSM, secure high-speed and integrated services (IS) routers, wireless access points, Meraki cloud-managed APs, and Catalyst Series switches. Learn additional information about Cisco Protection, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Wireless Consulting.

Additional Firewall and VPN Consulting Services
In addition to being expert in a broad range of security technologies available from Microsoft and Cisco, Progent can provide companies of any size advanced support for technologies from other major firewall and Virtual Private Network (VPN) suppliers. Progent's engineers offer:

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

Find out additional information about Progent's Certified Information Security Manager Security Support Services.

CISSP Security Consulting Expertise
Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSPs) are cybersecurity engineers who have earned CISSP status as a result of verified professional work, rigorous study, and formal examination. CISSP Certification indicates mastery of an international standard for IT security. ANSI has given the CISSP credential official recognition in the field of IT security under ISO/IEC 17024. Fields of expertise included within CISSP include cybersecurity administration procedures, security design and models, connection permission systems, applications development security, operations security, physical security, cryptography, telecommunications, network security, and business continuity planning.

Get more information about Progent's Certified Information Systems Security Professionals (CISSP) Support Services.

CISSP-ISSAP Certified Consultants for Secure System Infrastructure
Progent's ISSAP Premier cybersecurity experts are specialists who have been awarded ISSAP certification following rigorous examination and extensive hands-on work with network security architecture. ISSAP security experts have comprehensive understanding of access control systems and methodologies, telecommunications and network security, cryptography, requirements analysis, business continuity planning (BCP) and DRP, and physical security. Progent's ISSAP-premier security experts can assist your company with all aspects of secure network architecture.

Learn the details concerning Progent's ISSAP Certified Secure IT Infrastructure Engineering Support.

CISSP-ISSEP Certified Security Engineering Experts
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven their ability to provide enterprises 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 skills of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to assist your enterprise to follow modern system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant cybersecurity features for all key system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend practical cybersecurity solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

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

CISA Security Auditor Support Expertise
The Certified Information Systems Auditor credential is a globally recognized qualification that represents mastery in IS security audit and control. Accredited by the American National Standards Institute, the CISA credential has consultants pass a comprehensive examination administered by the ISACA professional group. Progent offers the services of a CISA-Certified security consultant able to assist businesses in the fields of IS audit services, IT enforcement, systems and architecture planned useful life, information technology service delivery, safeguarding information resources, and business continuity planning.

Find out additional information about Progent's CISA Professional Services.

CRISC Risk Mitigation Consultants
The CRISC certification program was established by ISACA to verify a consultant's skills to design, implement, and maintain information system controls to mitigate risk. Progent can provide the services of a CRISC-certified engineer to help your company to create and execute a business continuity or disaster recovery strategy based on leading practices identified by CRISC and crafted to align with your organization's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's risk management services are complementary to the services provided by Progent's CISA-Certified security engineers for objectively assessing your IT control mechanisms and with the expertise of Progent's CISM-certified support professionals for implementing security policies.

Find out additional information concerning Progent's CRISC-certified Risk Management Services.

Global Information Assurance Certification Consulting Expertise
GIAC was founded in 1999 to certify the skill of IT security engineers. GIAC's goal is to verify that an accredited professional has the skills necessary to provide support in important categories of network, data, and application software security. GIAC accreditations are acknowledged by companies and government organizations throughout the world including United States NSA. Progent offers the help of certified consultants for all of the network security disciplines covered within GIAC accreditation programs such as assessing perimeters, security incident response, traffic analysis, web-based services security, and SIEM solutions.

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Depend on Progent for Network Security Expertise
If your company is situated in St. Paul Minnesota and you need cybersecurity consulting, 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.