Xigent Blog

04.28.23

City of Sioux Falls Tree Planting Event 2023

The Xigent Team spent an afternoon planting a total of 20 trees

03.28.23

Cybersecurity in 2023: Safeguarding Hybrid & Remote Work Environments

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

03.09.23

Traditional Backup vs. Continuous Data Protection

By Chris Voigt, Xigent Solution Architect

02.28.23

Benefits of Virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO)

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

02.15.23

7 Reasons Why You Need DRaaS

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

12.14.22

Xigent’s Approach to Full-Stack Observability

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

12.07.22

The Banquet Sioux Falls Breakfast Event 2022

The Xigent Team volunteered their time to prepare and serve breakfast to community members in need

12.05.22

Security Advantages of Software Defined Networking (SDN)

11.30.22

Journey to Full-Stack Observability

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

11.22.22

Volunteers of America Spirit Tree

Christmas Tree Setup Before Thanksgiving – Here’s Why

11.17.22

Components of Full-Stack Observability

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

11.03.22

Benefits of Full-Stack Observability

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

10.20.22

What is Full-Stack Observability?

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

10.11.22

6 Ways Cybercriminals Exploit Your Self-Managed Immutable Backup

By Chris Voigt, Xigent Solutions Architect

10.06.22

Meet Xigent’s FSO Expert: Ed Ferron

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

07.14.22

Xigent Boat Cruise

A beautiful team-building day on Lake Minnetonka

05.12.22

City of Sioux Falls Tree Planting Event 2022

The Xigent Team spent an afternoon planting trees and giving back to the community

05.09.22

75% of SMBs Would Survive a Week or Less After a Ransomware Attack

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

03.31.22

Xigent Team Golf Event Sioux Falls & Minneapolis

We had a great time perfecting our golf swings at TopGolf, MN, and Great Shots, SD!

03.31.22

White House: Take These 8 Steps to Defend Against Cyberattacks

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

03.28.22

Four Best Practices for Hybrid Cloud Success

03.16.22

Xigent at Every Meal

The Xigent Team recently volunteered to help combat childhood hunger at Every Meal

03.07.22

Hybrid Cloud Solutions: Adapt to Change Quickly in a Flexible Environment

01.21.22

Xigent Names New Chief Operating Officer

From the Twin Cities Business Journal

12.16.21

Social Engineering Examples in 2023

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

12.01.21

Can “backup in a box” replace air-gapped immutable solutions?

By Michael Kedik, Xigent VP Offering Management

11.02.21

Xigent Acquires JMFerron Technologies

From the Twin Cities Business Journal

11.01.21

Xigent acquires JMFerron Technologies

Xigent to serve clients better by expanding cloud offerings with the acquisition of JMFerron, a Minneapolis application performance management specialty company

10.26.21

Immutability Explained: What Does It Really Mean?

By Josh Winters, Xigent Service Delivery Consultant

10.06.21

Disaster Recovery as a Service Protects Credit Union Members

09.30.21

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification: Get Ready Today

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

09.20.21

What Is Your Cyber Security Insurance Carrier Looking For?

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

08.02.21

Avoid the Blame Game: Developing a Cyber Security Culture

By Janet Eckman, Xigent Chief Financial Officer

07.29.21

Is your IT team falling into these 5 money-wasting traps?

By Michael Kedik

06.28.21

Hybrid Cloud Advantages

By Michael Kedik

06.21.21

SIEM Solutions Comparison: What Reports Should I Run?

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

06.17.21

Ransomware Protection Services: Subscription-based Cyber Attacks

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

06.15.21

The Economics of the Public Cloud: Calculate your TCO

By Rod Lucero, Xigent CTO

06.04.21

What Do You Need to Know About Cybersecurity Insurance?

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

05.27.21

What Role Should SSL Inspection Play in your Security Plan?

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

05.18.21

9 Tips for a Better Remote Meeting Experience

By Rod Lucero, Xigent CTO

05.14.21

4 Steps to Immediately Protect Your Business from Cyberattack

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

05.10.21

6 Mistakes that Can Sink Your Disaster Recovery Plan

By Chris Voigt, Xigent Solutions Architect

05.06.21

Cloud Predictions for 2021

By Rod Lucero, Xigent CTO

04.14.21

What do Tax Day and Disaster Recovery Planning Have in Common?

12.18.20

Managed IT Services Deliver Greater Results for Fiber-based Communications Provider

09.15.20

How SD-WAN Can Reduce Your Networking Cost

07.13.20

A Breakdown of SD-WAN: Here’s What You Need to Know

05.18.20

An Evolved Approach to Security Protection for Small to Medium IT Staffs

By Amos Aesoph, Xigent CISO

03.18.20

A Brief Update on COVID-19

01.16.20

4 Tips for Streamlining IT Asset Management Documentation

01.14.20

Improve Contract Management with Cisco Smart Net Total Care through Xigent.

01.09.20

IT Inventory Tracking Best Practices

01.07.20

3 Actionable New Year’s Resolutions for creating Business Efficient IT.

12.31.19

“Do I Need IT Inventory Management Software?” 4 Questions to Ask.

12.30.19

Managed Threat Response (MTR) service, powered by Sophos.

11.04.19

Case Study: Xigent Helps Modernize Another Data Center.

10.01.19

NetApp Once Again Billed a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

09.30.19

NVMe: What Can It Help Your Business Accomplish?

09.18.19

Why Cyber Attackers Have a Bullseye on Servers.

09.16.19

Xigent Earns NetApp’s Professional Services Certification

09.11.19

3 Reasons to Leverage Incident Response Services

08.29.19

5 Reasons You Need to Back Up Microsoft Office 365

08.22.19

The Essentials of Cybersecurity Incident Response

08.14.19

Security Friction: The Distance Between Concept and Reality

08.07.19

Strengthening Your Cyber Resilience Plan

07.29.19

The Direction of Endpoint Security

07.22.19

Why Risk Assessments Are Critical to Information Security

07.17.19

The New Landscape of Secure Wide Area Networking

07.10.19

The Biggest Security Threat is Your Cell Phone

07.01.19

Integrated IT Security for Financial Institutions

06.20.19

The Importance of PCI Compliance in Banking

05.09.19

3-2-1 Rule: Reducing the Risk of Failed Backup and Recovery

Backups of data and transaction logs are a critical component of a disaster recovery plan as it’s the only way an organization can restore data lost in a catastrophic failure. Disaster recovery plans cover failure from a security event, corrupted I/O events, or physical incidents such as flood, theft, or fire. One backup copy is […]

03.18.19

Surprise! Your SaaS Vendor Is Not Backing Up Your Data

Cloud computing has opened up a world of opportunities for businesses and organizations that previously could not afford the software and hardware necessary to compete in the global market. As a major component of cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS) is breaking down barriers for expansion.

03.11.19

Your Company’s Email – Leading Avenue for Cyber Attacks

      When a cybercrime incident makes the headlines it’s almost always because of an attack on a large organization.  Because of that, IT leaders at small to midsized organizations have been lulled into believing that their organizations aren’t targets of cybercriminals.  They are wrong.

01.29.19

How SD-WAN Is Transforming the Finance Industry

Survival for financial institutions is dependent on their ability to adapt to changing customer needs and expectations. At the same time, they have to maintain a high level of security, complying with the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and other requirements. Aging technology makes both goals difficult to accomplish when expanding service into branches […]

01.24.19

Xigent renews Advanced Data Center Architecture Specialization from Cisco

MINNEAPOLIS –Xigent Solutions, a leading provider of business efficient IT services and solutions, has renewed its Advanced Data Center Architecture (ADCA) specialization from Cisco®. This recognizes Xigent Solutions as having once again fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, design and deploy comprehensive Cisco Data Center solutions.