24/7 Managed Security Operations and Consulting from Chicago

Ascent InfoSec is the security practice of Ascent Innovations LLC, operating from Schaumburg, Illinois, in the Chicago suburbs, and serving clients since 2009. It sells managed security services alongside professional services for organisations that lack the in-house depth to design and run their own security programme. Customers come from the public sector, retail, healthcare, education, finance, and technology, and the firm has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fast-growing companies.

The managed side runs a 24/7/365 security operation built on log collection and event monitoring, processing over 280 billion security logs a year and more than 688 million security events a day for early detection. Consulting engagements cover enterprise network firewall design and deployment, identity and access management to control who reaches which applications, databases, and networks, and application security work aimed at closing vulnerabilities in software before they become breach paths.

A Security Health Check gives prospective customers a short assessment, including ePolicy Orchestrator evaluations, typically finished within an hour. Risk and compliance services help teams meet regulatory mandates and security standards as those requirements shift. The practice is built around named technology partners including Trellix, Secureworks, AlienVault, and Protectwise, so the monitoring stack and the consulting recommendations line up with tooling the customer may already own or plan to buy.