Security and Compliance

Progent can provide fast and economical access to CISSP-certified information security consultants. CISSP certification is the most prized network security credential in the IT industry and recognizes proven mastery of a global standard for network security. To be granted CISSP certification, candidates must show extensive understanding of advanced network security strategies and have years of hands-on field experience.

ANSI has awarded CISSP official recognition in the field of network security under ISO/IEC 17024. This represents the first time that an IT credential has been assigned ANSI approval. CISSP is also officially recognized by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in their IAT and IAM categories. In addition, CISSP has been accepted as a baseline for the United States NSA's ISSEP initiative to secure the National Information Infrastructure (NII).

Progent's CISSP network Security consultants can help businesses of all sizes with cybersecurity projects no matter how challenging. Progent's online and on-premises IT support models are intended to fit any budget and include urgent or as-needed support with by-the-minute billing, fix-bid help for projects such as security audits or penetration testing, or subscription based remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can help your business to create information security solutions that range from guarding a single location for a small business to designing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive security strategy for hybrid enterprise networks that serve on-premises, online, and mobile users sharing network resources distributed across multiple datacenters and hosted in various cloud environments. Progent's cybersecurity experts also offer advanced backup and restore consulting, disaster recovery preparedness consulting, and business continuity planning expertise. For large-scale information security initiatives, Progent offers comprehensive project management outsourcing and co-sourcing support.

Progent offers access to a CISSP-certified expert to assist your business in a broad range of of information assurance disciplines addressed by the CISSP certification program. These domains of expertise include:

• Security Management Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Control Systems and Methodology
• Software Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Cryptography
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Risk Analysis
• Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Administration Procedures
  Security administration entails the determination of an organization's high-value data and the development, documentation, and carrying out of policies, procedures, and guidelines. Management techniques that include information classification and threat assessment can be utilized to determine possible attacks, classify valuable data, and evaluate system weaknesses so that effective controls can be put in place.

• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  This concerns the concepts, structures, and standards used to design, monitor, and secure operating systems, hardware, infrastructure, and applications plus the controls utilized to enforce different degrees of robustness, integrity, and privacy.

• Access Management Systems and Processes
  Access controls are a collection of technologies that operate in unison to build a security architecture to guard the assets of the IT system.

• Applications Development Security
  This addresses the important security principles associated with application software development. Applications development security outlines the circumstances where software is planned and produced and elucidates the vital part application software has in providing IT system security.

• Operations Security
  Operations security involves determining the management of hardware and storage media and overseeing the technicians and administrators who have access privileges to any of these assets. Audit and monitoring are the tools and facilities that permit the identification of security-relevant events and consequent actions to discover the essential factors and report the associated data to the appropriate individual, group, or process.

• Physical Security
  Physical security provides security mechanisms for the entire facility, from the perimeter to the desk, including all of the information system resources.

• Cryptography
  Cryptography involves the concepts, techniques, and methods of disguising information to preserve its integrity, privacy, and authenticity.

• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
  This area concerns:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport formats
  • Security techniques used to ensure reliability, integrity, and privacy
  • Validation for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness
  This addresses the preservation and restoration of commercial activity in the event of network disruptions.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis assesses a company's vulnerability to cyber attacks, estimates the possible damage of various modern threats, and specifies appropriate controls and response processes to minimize exposure.

• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This concerns:
  • Information system crime regulations
  • The procedures taken and technologies utilized to solve computer crime activity

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Network Security consultants who have earned CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) certification have proven their ability to assist enterprises by taking on the roles of cybersecurity architect, network designer, business analyst, and chief security officer. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP experts can assist you to design a robust architectural framework into your company-wide security strategy, plan and deploy an advanced identity management solution, evaluate and improve your access control processes, provide governance and risk management expertise, audit and improve software development security, and design secure connectivity for local, cloud-hosted, and hybrid network models. 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 enterprises with the expertise 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 enterprise to follow current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, review system security designs based on cybersecurity engineering leading practices, create viable system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all key system functions, define effective design and configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend 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're looking for computer security support services, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.