Progent offers the services of security experts who have earned CISSP accreditation. CISSP certification denotes mastery of an international standard for data security. ANSI has awarded the CISSP certification formal accreditation in the field of data security under ISO/IEC 17024. This is the first time that an IT credential has been given ANSI approval. CISSP is also approved by the United States Department of Defense in their IAT and IAM disciplines. CISSP has in addition been approved as a baseline for the U.S. NSA's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional program to protect the National Information Infrastructure.

Progent can give you access to a CISSP-certified expert to help your business in a variety security areas such as:

  • Security Management Procedures
  • Security Architecture and Paradigms
  • Access Management Systems and Methodology
  • Applications Development Security
  • Operations Security
  • Site Security
  • Data Encryption
  • Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
  • Business Continuity Planning
  • Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics

    • Security Administration Procedures
      Security management entails the identification of an organization's information assets and the development, recording, and implementation of policies, operations, standards. Administration tools such as information categorization and risk analysis can be utilized to identify possible attacks, categorize valuable data, and evaluate system vulnerabilities so that effective controls can be implemented.

    • Security Architecture and Models
      This concerns the concepts, framework, and guidelines followed to design, track, and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, and application software as well as the tools used to police different degrees of availability, integrity, and privacy.

    • Access Management Solutions and Processes
      Access management systems are a set of technologies that operate cohesively to build a security infrastructure to guard the high-value data of the IT system.

    • Applications Development Security
      This covers the important security principles that apply to application software development. Software development security defines the environment where programs are planned and produced and elucidates the critical part software plays in ensuring information network security.

    • Operations Security
      This concerns identifying the management of hardware, data storage, and the operators and managers with access privileges to any of these assets. Audit and monitoring are the mechanisms and facilities that allow the awareness of security-related activity and consequent efforts to identify the key elements and report the associated information to the appropriate individual, group, or process.

    • Site Security
      Physical security provides security techniques for the entire facility, from the perimeter to the desk, including all of the IT system assets.

    • Cryptography
      Cryptography involves the principles, means, and processes of cloaking information to preserve its consistency, confidentiality, and legitimacy.

    • Telecom, Network and Internet Security
      This area involves:
      • Network Structures
      • Transmission methods
      • Transport formats
      • Security techniques used to ensure availability, consistency, and privacy
      • Authentication for traffic over private and public communications networks and media.

    • Business Continuity Preparedness
      The Business Continuity Plan covers the protection and restoration of business activity after outages.

    • Law, Investigation and Ethics
      This concerns:
      • Information system crime laws
      • The measures taken and mechanisms used to solve information system crime incidents

    Other Credentials Help by Progent's Security Specialists
    In addition to offering the services of security specialists with CISSP certifications, Progent can also provide your business with access to CISM-certified security consultants, ISSAP-certified network architecture security consultants, CISA-certified IS security auditing specialists, and GIAC-certified system security engineers.

    If you want computer security expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or send email to security-help@progent.com.














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