Security and Compliance

Progent can provide fast and affordable access to CISSP-certified network security consulting experts. CISSP is the most prized cybersecurity credential in the IT industry and denotes proven mastery of a international standard for cybersecurity. To earn CISSP certification, candidates must demonstrate extensive knowledge of modern information security strategies and confirm years of professional work experience.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has awarded the CISSP credential official recognition in the area of cybersecurity under ISO/IEC 17024. This represents the first time that an IT credential has been assigned ANSI approval. CISSP is also formally approved by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial disciplines. In addition, CISSP has been adopted as a standard for the U.S. National Security Agency's ISSEP initiative to safeguard the NII.

Progent's CISSP information assurance consultants can help businesses of all sizes with information security issues of any complexity. Progent's remote and onsite IT support models are intended to fit any budget and include urgent or as-needed support with by-the-minute billing, fix-bid support for one-off projects such as security vulnerability audits or penetration testing, or subscription based remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can assist your organization to plan and implement information security solutions that range from guarding a small office to planning, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive security strategy for hybrid enterprise networks that support local, remote, and mobile clients sharing network resources spanning multiple physical sites and hosted in various cloud environments. Progent's cybersecurity experts can also provide cutting-edge backup and restore consulting, disaster recovery planning services, and business continuity planning consulting. For major cybersecurity initiatives, Progent offers full-service project management outsourcing and co-sourcing support.

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

• Security Management Practices
• Security Architecture and Models
• Access Management Systems and Processes
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Cryptography
• Telecommunications, Network and Internet Security
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Risk Analysis
• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Management Procedures
  Security management involves the identification of an organization's high-value data and the creation, documentation, and execution of policies, operations, and standards. Administration tools such as information classification and risk analysis can be utilized to determine potential attacks, classify assets, and rate system vulnerabilities so that appropriate measures can be implemented.

• Security Architecture and Paradigms
  This covers the principles, framework, and standards followed to design, monitor, and protect operating systems, equipment, networks, and applications plus the tools used to enforce different levels of availability, integrity, and privacy.

• Access Management Solutions and Processes
  Access controls are a set of mechanisms that work in unison to create a security infrastructure to guard the assets of the IT network.

• Applications Development Security
  This involves the important security principles related to application development. Applications development security outlines the circumstances where software is planned and produced and elucidates the vital part software plays in providing information network protection.

• Secure Operations
  This involves determining the management of hardware and media and managing the operators and administrators who have access permissions to these assets. Audit and tracking are the mechanisms and techniques that allow the awareness of security-relevant events and follow-on actions to discover the key elements and report the associated information to the appropriate individual, team, or mechanism.

• Site Security
  Physical security addresses security techniques for the entire physical facility, from the perimeter to the desk, including all of the information network resources.

• Data Encryption
  Data Encryption involves the concepts, techniques, and methods of cloaking data to preserve its integrity, confidentiality, and authenticity.

• Telecom, LAN and WAN Security
  This area has to do with:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport protocols
  • Security measures used to ensure reliability, consistency, and confidentiality
  • Validation for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness
  This covers the preservation and restoration of business activity after outages.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis evaluates a company's vulnerability to threats, sizes the damage potential of specific known threats, and specifies best-practice controls and response procedures to minimize vulnerability.

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

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSAP (Information Systems Security Architecture Professional) certification have proven their ability to assist large organizations by taking on the roles of security architect, network designer, business analyst, and chief security officer (CSO). Progent's CISSP-ISSAP consultants can help you to incorporate a robust architectural foundation into your company-wide security strategy, plan and implement an advanced identity management solution, evaluate and improve your access control systems, provide governance and risk management expertise, audit and enhance application development security, and verify secure access for physical, 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 who have earned CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have shown their ability to provide enterprises with the expertise associated with 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 expert to assist your enterprise to utilize modern system security engineering principles and processes in system development, evaluate system security designs according to cybersecurity engineering best practices, create cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security features for all critical system functions, define efficient design and configuration strategies to provide operational security, perform in-depth risk analysis, and propose realistic cybersecurity models that balance your operational requirements with your organization'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.

For more information about Progent's network security consulting, phone Progent at 800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.