Computer Security and Business Continuity

Progent offers the services of security professionals who have earned CISSP accreditation. CISSP certification denotes mastery of an international standard for information security. ANSI has granted the CISSP credential official accreditation in the field of data security under ISO/IEC 17024:2003. This is the first example where an information technology accreditation has earned ANSI recognition. CISSP is also accepted by the U.S. Department of Defense in both their Information Assurance Technical (IAT) and Managerial categories. The CISSP has also been approved as a standard for the United States NSA's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional program to protect the National Information Infrastructure (NII).

Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your enterprise in a broad range of security areas including:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Control Solutions and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Data Encryption
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness
• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Management Procedures
  Security administration entails the identification of a company's most important information and the creation, recording, and implementation of policies, operations, and guidelines. Management tools that include data classification and threat assessment can be utilized to identify possible threats, categorize assets, and rate system vulnerabilities so that effective measures can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Models
  This concerns the principles, framework, and standards used to build, track, and protect OS platforms, hardware, infrastructure, and applications as well as the controls utilized to enforce various degrees of robustness, consistency, and confidentiality.

• Access Control Solutions and Processes
  Access management systems are a collection of mechanisms that operate cohesively to build a security infrastructure to guard the assets of the IT network.

• Software Development Security
  This covers the important security concepts related to software development. Software development security outlines the environment where software is designed and produced and explains the critical part application software has in providing IT network protection.

• Secure Operations
  This concerns identifying the management of hardware, media, and the operators and managers with access rights to these assets. Audit and tracking are the mechanisms and facilities that allow the awareness of security-related activity and subsequent actions to discover the essential factors and report the associated information to the designated individual, group, or process.

• Site Security
  Physical security addresses protection mechanisms for the whole facility, from the outside perimeter to the inside office space, including all of the IT system assets.

• Cryptography
  Data Encryption involves the concepts, means, and methods of cloaking data to preserve its consistency, confidentiality, and authenticity.

• Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
  This area involves:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport protocols
  • Security techniques used to provide availability, consistency, and confidentiality
  • Verification for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.

• Business Continuity Planning
  The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) addresses the preservation and restoration of business operations after outages.

• Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This has to do with:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The measures taken and mechanisms utilized to solve information system crime activity

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.

To learn more about Progent's security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or send email to security-help@progent.com.