Security and Compliance

Progent offers prompt and affordable access to CISSP-certified cybersecurity consultants. CISSP is the most esteemed information security credential in the IT industry and indicates proven mastery of a worldwide standard for information security. To be granted CISSP certification, consultants must demonstrate in-depth knowledge of modern network security solutions and have years of professional field experience.

ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of information security under ISO/IEC 17024. This represents the first time that an information technology credential has been assigned ANSI approval. CISSP is also formally recognized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial (IAT and IAM) categories. In addition, the CISSP has been accepted as a standard for the U.S. National Security Agency's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) program to protect the NII.

Progent's CISSP-certified network Security consultants can help organizations of any size with information security issues of any complexity. Progent's online and on-premises IT support options are intended to match any budget and include urgent or as-needed support with hourly billing, fix-bid support for projects like security vulnerability audits or stealth penetration testing, or subscription remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can assist your business to create cybersecurity solutions that range from guarding a small office to planning, deploying, and managing an end-to-end cybersecurity strategy for hybrid enterprise networks that support on-premises, online, and mobile users sharing network resources spanning multiple physical sites and hosted in various clouds. Progent's cybersecurity consultants can also provide advanced backup/recovery consulting services, disaster recovery planning consulting, and business continuity planning consulting. For major information security initiatives, Progent can provide comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing services.

Progent offers access to a CISSP-certified consultant to help your company in a broad range of of network security disciplines addressed by the CISSP certification program. These domains of expertise include:

• Security Administration Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Management Systems and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Physical Security
• Cryptography
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Planning
• Risk Analysis
• Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Administration Procedures
  Security administration entails the determination of a company's information assets and the creation, recording, and carrying out of policies, procedures, and standards. Management techniques that include data classification and threat analysis can be utilized to identify potential threats, categorize valuable data, and evaluate security vulnerabilities so that effective measures can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Models
  This involves the concepts, structures, and standards used to build, track, and secure operating systems, equipment, networks, and application software plus the controls utilized to enforce various degrees of robustness, consistency, and confidentiality.

• Access Management Solutions and Methodology
  Access management systems are a collection of technologies that operate in unison to build a security architecture to protect the assets of the information network.

• Software Development Security
  This covers the key security concepts associated with application software development. Application software development security defines the circumstances where programs are planned and developed and elucidates the critical role application software has in providing information network protection.

• Operations Security
  This concerns determining the controls over equipment and media and managing the technicians and administrators with access permissions to these assets. Audit and tracking are the tools and facilities that enable the identification of security-related events and follow-on efforts to identify the key elements and report the associated data to the appropriate person, group, or mechanism.

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

• Data Encryption
  Cryptography entails the principles, means, and processes of cloaking information to ensure its integrity, privacy, and legitimacy.

• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  This area has to do with:
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport protocols
  • Security measures implemented to provide availability, consistency, and privacy
  • Verification for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.
• Business Continuity Planning
  The Business Continuity Plan (BCP) covers the preservation and recovery of business operations in the event of network disruptions.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis assesses a company's vulnerability to threats, sizes the damage potential of specific modern threats, and identifies best-practice controls and mitigation processes to reduction vulnerability.

• Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This concerns:
  • Computer crime laws
  • The procedures taken and mechanisms utilized to solve information system crime activity

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Cybersecurity consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) certification have proven their ability to assist enterprises in 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 update your access control systems, provide governance and risk management expertise, assess and improve application development security, and verify secure connectivity for physical, cloud-hosted, 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 who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have proven 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 principles and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs based on security engineering best practices, produce viable system designs that include compliant security mechanisms for all key system functions, develop efficient design strategies to deliver operational security, 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.

If you want computer security consulting expertise, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.