Security and Compliance

Progent offers fast and economical access to CISSP-certified network security consulting experts. CISSP certification is the most esteemed cybersecurity credential in the IT industry and denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for cybersecurity. To be granted CISSP certification, candidates must demonstrate extensive understanding of advanced network security strategies and confirm years of professional implementation experience.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has awarded the CISSP credential official accreditation in the field of cybersecurity under ISO/IEC 17024. This is the first time that an IT credential has been assigned ANSI approval. CISSP is also officially approved by the United States Department of Defense in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial disciplines. In addition, CISSP has been accepted as a standard for the United States NSA's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) program to protect the National Information Infrastructure (NII).

Progent's CISSP-certified information assurance experts can help businesses of any size with information security issues no matter how challenging. Progent's online and on-premises service delivery models are intended to fit any budget and include urgent or occasional support with by-the-minute billing, fix-bid help for projects like security vulnerability audits or penetration testing, or subscription based remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can help your business to create information security solutions that run the gamut from guarding a single location for a small business to planning, deploying, and maintaining a comprehensive cybersecurity system for hybrid enterprise architectures that serve on-premises, remote, and mobile clients sharing IT resources spanning multiple physical sites and hosted in various clouds. Progent's information assurance experts also offer cutting-edge backup/recovery consulting services, disaster recovery planning consulting, and business continuity planning expertise. For large-scale information security projects, Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing services.

Progent can provide a CISSP expert to assist your company in a broad range of of network security fields addressed by the CISSP certification program. These areas of expertise include:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Processes
• Software Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Data Encryption
• Telecommunications, Network and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness
• Risk Analysis
• Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Administration Procedures
  Security management involves the determination of a company's high-value data and the creation, documentation, and implementation of policies, procedures, and standards. Administration techniques such as data classification and risk assessment can be used to identify potential threats, classify valuable data, and rate security vulnerabilities so that appropriate measures can be implemented.

• Security Architecture and Paradigms
  This involves the principles, structures, and guidelines followed to design, track, and protect operating systems, hardware, infrastructure, and application software plus the tools utilized to enforce different degrees of robustness, integrity, and confidentiality.

• Access Management Systems and Methodology
  Access management systems are a set of mechanisms that work together to create a security architecture to protect the high-value data of the IT system.

• Applications Development Security
  This involves the key security principles that apply to application software development. Software development security outlines the environment where software is designed and produced and explains the critical role application software plays in ensuring IT system protection.

• Secure Operations
  This concerns determining the management of equipment and storage media and managing the technicians and administrators with access permissions to any of these assets. Audit and tracking are the mechanisms and facilities that allow the identification of security-relevant events and consequent efforts to discover the essential elements and convey the associated information to the designated individual, team, or process.

• Physical Security
  Physical security provides security mechanisms for the whole facility, from the perimeter to the inside office space, including all of the information system resources.

• Data Encryption
  Data Encryption covers the concepts, techniques, and methods of cloaking data to ensure its integrity, privacy, and authenticity.

• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  This area has to do with:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport formats
  • Security techniques used to ensure reliability, integrity, and confidentiality
  • Verification for traffic over private and public networks and media.
• Business Continuity Preparedness
  This covers the protection and restoration of business operations after network disruptions.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis assesses a company's vulnerability to threats, estimates the damage potential of specific modern threats, and specifies appropriate controls and mitigation processes to minimize vulnerability.

• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This has to do with:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The procedures followed and technologies utilized to investigate information system crime activity

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to help large organizations by taking on the roles of cybersecurity architect, network designer, business analyst, and chief security officer (CSO). Progent's CISSP-ISSAP consultants can assist you to incorporate a robust architectural foundation into your company-wide security strategy, plan and deploy an advanced identity management solution, evaluate and improve your access control systems, provide governance and risk management expertise, assess and improve application development security, and design secure access for local, cloud-based, and hybrid networks. Learn more about Progent's CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional consulting services.

CISSP-ISSEP Information Systems Security Engineering Professional
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide large organizations with the services expected of a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, and senior security analyst. Progent offers the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP cybersecurity consultant to help your organization to utilize modern system security engineering theory and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, develop efficient design and configuration strategies to deliver protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and propose practical security solutions that balance your operational goals with your company's tolerance for risk.

Other Credentials Held 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 need security support services, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or see Contact Progent.