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• Security Administration Practices
  Security administration entails the identification of an organization's most important information and the creation, recording, and execution of policies, procedures, and guidelines. Management techniques that include information classification and risk assessment can be used to identify possible attacks, categorize assets, and rate system weaknesses so that appropriate controls can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  This covers the principles, structures, and guidelines followed to design, monitor, and secure operating systems, hardware, networks, and application software as well as the controls utilized to enforce different levels of availability, consistency, and confidentiality.

• Access Control Systems and Methodology
  Access management systems are a collection of technologies that operate cohesively to create a security infrastructure to guard the assets of the IT network.

• Applications Development Security
  This covers the important security principles associated with application software development. Software development security defines the environment where programs are designed and produced and elucidates the vital part application software has in providing IT network protection.

• Operations Security
  This involves determining the controls over equipment, data storage, and the operators and managers with access rights to any of these assets. Audit and tracking are the tools and facilities that permit the identification of security-related activity and consequent efforts to identify the key elements and convey the associated information to the appropriate person, team, or mechanism.

• Physical Security
  Physical security addresses security techniques for the entire physical facility, from the perimeter to the inside office space, including all of the information network assets.

• Data Encryption
  Cryptography entails the principles, means, and processes of disguising information to preserve its consistency, confidentiality, and authenticity.

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

• Disaster Recovery Planning
  The Business Continuity Plan addresses the protection and restoration of commercial operations after network disruptions.

• Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This involves:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The measures taken and mechanisms used to investigate information system crime activity

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Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified consultants offer businesses in San Francisco, San Jose, and in cities nationwide a wide range of expertise concerning the basic IT needs shared by typical small and mid-size business environments. Progent's primary consulting areas include system support, Microsoft Exchange consulting, system security consulting and Help Desk outsourcing and staffing. Progent's Application Experts Team offers deep knowledge of strategic application topics. By providing a one-stop resource for IT generalists and experts, Progent can tailor speedy, economical and complete IT solutions that address the exact needs of your business.