Security and Compliance

Progent can provide fast and economical access to CISSP-certified network security consulting experts. CISSP certification is the most esteemed network security credential in the industry and denotes mastery of a worldwide standard for cybersecurity. To earn CISSP certification, candidates must demonstrate in-depth understanding of advanced cybersecurity solutions and confirm years of professional field experience.

American National Standards Institute has awarded the CISSP credential formal recognition in the field of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. This is the first time that an IT credential has been given ANSI approval. CISSP is also formally recognized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial disciplines. In addition, the CISSP has been approved as a baseline for the U.S. NSA's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional initiative to safeguard the NII.

Progent's CISSP information assurance consultants can assist organizations of all sizes with information security issues of any complexity. Progent's online and on-premises service delivery models are designed to fit any budget and include urgent or as-needed support with by-the-minute billing, fix-bid help for one-off projects like security audits or penetration testing, or subscription remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can help your business to create information security solutions that run the gamut from protecting a single location for a small business to planning, implementing, and managing an end-to-end security strategy for hybrid enterprise architectures that support local, online, and mobile clients sharing network resources distributed across multiple physical sites and hosted in various clouds. Progent's information assurance consultants can also provide advanced backup and restore consulting services, disaster recovery preparedness consulting, and business continuity planning consulting. For large-scale cybersecurity projects, Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing support.

Progent can provide a CISSP consultant to assist your business in a broad range of of cybersecurity disciplines covered by the CISSP certification program. These domains of expertise include:

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

• Security Management Procedures
  Security management involves the identification of a company's most important information and the creation, documentation, and execution of policies, operations, and guidelines. Management techniques that include information categorization and threat assessment can be utilized to determine potential attacks, classify valuable data, and rate security vulnerabilities so that effective measures can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Models
  This covers the concepts, structures, and guidelines followed to build, monitor, and secure OS platforms, hardware, networks, and applications 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 technologies that work together to create a security infrastructure to guard the high-value data of the IT network.

• Applications Development Security
  This involves the key security concepts related to software development. Software development security defines the environment where software is planned and produced and elucidates the critical role application software plays in providing information network protection.

• Secure Operations
  This involves defining the controls over hardware and storage media and overseeing the operators and administrators with access privileges to these assets. Audit and tracking are the tools and techniques that permit the identification of security-related activity and follow-on actions to identify the key factors and convey the associated data to the appropriate individual, group, or mechanism.

• Site Security
  Site security addresses protection techniques for the whole physical facility, from the perimeter to the desk, including all of the IT system resources.

• Data Encryption
  Data Encryption covers the principles, techniques, and methods of disguising data to preserve its integrity, confidentiality, and legitimacy.

• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  This area concerns:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission mechanisms
  • Transport formats
  • Security measures implemented to provide reliability, consistency, and privacy
  • Validation for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.
• Business Continuity Preparedness
  This covers the preservation and restoration of commercial activity in the event of outages.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis evaluates an organization's vulnerability to cyber attacks, estimates the damage potential of specific known threats, and identifies appropriate controls and response procedures to reduction exposure.

• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This concerns:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The procedures followed and technologies utilized to solve information system crime activity

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Network Security consultants with CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to help large organizations in the roles of cybersecurity architect, network designer, business analyst, and chief security officer. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP consultants can assist you to design a hardened architectural framework into your company-wide security strategy, define and implement a modern identity management solution, review and update your access control systems, provide governance and risk management expertise, audit and enhance software development security, and verify secure access for physical, cloud-based, and hybrid networks. Learn the details 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 expertise associated with a senior systems engineer, information assurance systems engineer, information assurance officer, information assurance analyst, and senior security analyst. Progent can provide the support of a certified CISSP-ISSEP network security consultant to help your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, define effective design strategies to provide protection for operations, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your company's risk tolerance.

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.

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