Security and Compliance

Progent offers fast and affordable access to CISSP-certified network security consulting experts. CISSP certification is the most esteemed network security credential in the industry and recognizes proven mastery of a global standard for cybersecurity. To be granted CISSP certification, candidates must show in-depth understanding of modern cybersecurity strategies and confirm years of professional field experience.

ANSI has awarded the CISSP credential formal accreditation in the area of cybersecurity under ISO/IEC 17024. This represents the first time that an information technology accreditation has been given ANSI approval. CISSP is also officially recognized by the United States Department of Defense in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial categories. In addition, the CISSP has been adopted as a standard for the U.S. NSA's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional initiative to protect the National Information Infrastructure (NII).

Progent's CISSP information assurance consultants can assist organizations of all sizes with cybersecurity projects no matter how challenging. Progent's online and onsite service delivery options are designed to fit any budget and include urgent or occasional support with hourly billing, fix-bid help for one-off projects like security audits or penetration testing, or subscription based remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can help your organization to plan and implement cybersecurity solutions that range from guarding a single location for a small business to planning, deploying, and managing an end-to-end security system for hybrid enterprise networks that support on-premises, online, and mobile clients sharing network resources distributed across multiple physical sites and hosted in public and private cloud environments. Progent's information assurance experts also offer cutting-edge backup and restore consulting, disaster recovery preparedness consulting, and business continuity planning consulting. For large-scale cybersecurity projects, Progent offers full-service project management outsourcing support.

Progent can provide a CISSP-certified consultant to help your business in a broad range of of information assurance disciplines addressed by the CISSP certification program. These domains of expertise include:

• Security Management Practices
• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
• Access Management Solutions and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Operations Security
• Site Security
• Cryptography
• Telecommunications, LAN and WAN Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness
• Risk Analysis
• Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Administration Practices
  Security administration entails the determination of an organization's information assets and the development, documentation, and carrying out of policies, operations, and guidelines. Management tools such as data categorization and threat assessment can be utilized to determine possible threats, classify valuable data, and rate system vulnerabilities so that effective measures can be implemented.

• Security Infrastructure and Models
  This covers the concepts, framework, and guidelines used to design, track, and protect OS platforms, equipment, infrastructure, and applications as well as the controls utilized to enforce different levels of robustness, integrity, and privacy.

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

• Applications Development Security
  This addresses the key security principles that apply to software development. Application software development security outlines the environment where programs are planned and developed and elucidates the critical role application software plays in providing information system security.

• Secure Operations
  Operations security involves defining the management of hardware and media and managing the operators and administrators who have access privileges to any of these resources. Audit and tracking are the mechanisms and facilities that permit the awareness of security-related activity and follow-on efforts to identify the key factors and report the associated data to the designated individual, team, or mechanism.

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

• Data Encryption
  Cryptography covers the principles, means, and processes of cloaking data to preserve its consistency, confidentiality, and authenticity.

• Telecom, Network and WAN Security
  This area concerns:
  • Network Infrastructure
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport formats
  • Security measures used to ensure reliability, consistency, and privacy
  • Validation for traffic over private and public 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 threats, estimates the damage potential of specific modern threats, and identifies best-practice controls and mitigation procedures to minimize exposure.

• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This involves:
  • Computer crime regulations
  • The procedures followed and technologies used to solve information system crime incidents

CISSP-ISSAP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional
Network Security 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. Progent's CISSP-ISSAP experts can assist you to design a robust architectural framework into your company-wide security strategy, plan and deploy a modern identity management solution, evaluate and improve your access control processes, provide governance and risk management support, assess and improve software development security, and design secure connectivity 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
Cybersecurity consultants with CISSP-ISSEP (Information Systems Security Engineering Professional) certification have demonstrated their ability to provide large organizations 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 expert to assist your enterprise to utilize current system security engineering principles and techniques in system development, evaluate system security designs according to security engineering leading practices, produce cohesive system designs that incorporate compliant security mechanisms for all critical system functions, define effective configuration strategies to deliver operational security, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic security solutions that balance your operational requirements 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're looking for computer security engineering help, telephone Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.