Disaster Recovery Support
For Businesses of All Sizes:
CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultants
Managing IT Risk: CRISC Certification for Controlling Information System Risk
The CRISC credential (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control) was created by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) to certify an IT professional's ability to assess information system risk and implement risk management control solutions that support an enterprise's business goals. CRISC certification signifies a combination of deep technical knowledge, broad business understanding, plus years of relevant work experience.
Progent offers the expertise of a CRISC-certified consultant who can help you create and implement a modern risk management strategy based on best practices promoted by CRISC and geared to align with your company's risk tolerance, business objectives, and IT budget. Progent's CRISC-certified risk management consultants expand the skills of other cybersecurity and information assurance experts whose services are available from Progent. These specialists include Progent's CISA-certified cybersecurity audit consultants, who can objectively review your IS control design and operational effectiveness, and Progent's CISM-certified security management experts, who can evaluate your network security profile or implement enterprise-wide cybersecurity.
Progent's Support for CRISC Practice Domains
The CRISC certification program verifies a candidate's work experience and exhaustively tests skills in key practice areas of risk management:
- Risk identification
- Risk assessment
- Risk response and mitigation
- Risk and control monitoring and reporting
Risk Identification
This facet of enterprise risk management involves cataloging a comprehensive set of IT risks to be addressed by an enterprise risk management plan that takes into account business objectives. Consulting services available from Progent in this practice area include:
- Gather all information garnered from interviews or documentation that can help identify and quantify areas of risk to business processes and network operation
- Evaluate the potential monetary or productivity loss that could result from various risk scenarios
- Review the impact that applicable laws, regulations, compliance requirements, and business agreements have on your risk profile
- Build a risk register to catalog all identified risk factors
- Document the likelihood and potential information system damage associated with major risk scenarios
- Use advanced risk analysis tools to understand the potential impact of risk scenarios on your business objectives
- Create a risk awareness initiative that educates stakeholders on IT risk and invites their participation in creating your risk management strategy
- Find consensus for risk appetite and risk tolerance among top leadership and critical stakeholders to ensure that everyone buys into the risk management program
This area of risk management involves performing sufficient analysis of risk likelihood and impact to provide the basis for sound risk management decisions. Services offered by Progent in this area include:
- Analyze risk scenarios based on their relationship to the structure, processes, and control mechanisms of your business
- Analyze risk controls currently in place and grade their effectiveness in mitigating risk
- Review risk and control analysis data to uncover any shortcomings in your current risk management solution
- Verify that risk ownership is correctly assigned and clearly understood
- Share the results of risk assessment with associated stakeholders to drive a rational risk management plan
- Document risk assessment results in the risk register
This area of risk management concerns the selection of effective risk response activity that is within the IT budget and is in line with business objectives. Consulting services available from Progent in this area include:
- Interview risk owners to determine risk responses that support business goals
- Collaborate with risk owners to make sure the processes, cost, and scheduling of risk response plans are well defined
- Work with risk control owners to ensure that the design and deployment of risk mitigation controls are properly managed
- Assign risk control ownership clearly and openly
- Help risk control owners to create and document effective control processes
- Edit the risk register to show any changes in risk identification and response processes
- Verify that actual responses to risk have followed the risk action plans
This area of risk management concerns monitoring and management information system controls to ensure they continue to support business objectives. Progent's consulting services in this area include:
- Analyze and document your business process objectives and design to identify required information system controls
- Plan, supervise, and conduct testing to confirm continuous efficiency and effectiveness of your information system controls
- Collect information and review documentation to identify information system control deficiencies
- Review your information system policies, standards, and procedures to make sure they address your company's internal and external requirements
- Evaluate the current state of your information system processes using a maturity model to identify the gaps between current and targeted process maturity
- Determine how to correct information system control deficiencies and maturity gaps to ensure that deficiencies are appropriately considered and fixed
- Maintain adequate evidence to support conclusions on the completeness and operating effectiveness of your information system controls
- Test your information systems controls to verify their effectiveness and efficiency before they are implemented
- Deploy information systems controls
- Monitor your information systems control design and implementation process to make sure it is implemented effectively and within time, budget, and scope
- Provide progress reports on the deployment of your information systems controls to inform your stakeholders and to make sure deviations are addressed quickly
- Provide information system control status reporting to your relevant stakeholders to help them make informed decisions
- Evaluate and recommend tools to automate your information systems control processes
In addition to offering the services of security specialists with CRISC certification, Progent can also provide your business with access to CISM-certified security management consultants, CISSP-certified cybersecurity experts, CISSP-ISSAP certified cybersecurity architecture consultants, CISA-certified cybersecurity audit professionals, and GIAC-certified information assurance specialists.
Contact Progent for Access to a CRISC-certified Risk Management Consultant
To find out how to get in touch with a CRISC-certified risk management expert, phone Progent at
Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is intended to help organizations to take the urgent first step in mitigating a ransomware assault by stopping the bleeding. Progent's remote ransomware expert can assist you to identify and isolate breached servers and endpoints and protect clean assets from being penetrated. If your system has been penetrated by any strain of ransomware, don't panic. Get help quickly by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For more information, see Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.
An index of content::
Microsoft SMS Server Setup and Support
SMS Server 2003 Upgrade Professional
Progent's Microsoft certified experts offer small and medium size companies enterprise-level consulting services for Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003. SMS 2003 is Microsoft's standard tool for change and configuration management. SMS 2003, included in Microsoft System Center 200, enables you to install critical software quickly and reliably to appropriate users, lower product expense and adhere to licensing agreements by understanding patterns of usage, enhance Windows protection by improving your awareness of weak points and by delivering targeted patches, manage your mobile workforce through industry standards independent of connection or location, and reduce operational costs by fully utilizing the administrative functions incorporated into Windows. Progent's SMS consulting professionals can help you use SMS effectively for automated software and application installation, security patch administration, and resource tracking management including program and appliance inventory.
ProSight Network Health Reports Consultant
Remote Network Infrastructure Monitoring Professional
Progent's ProSight Network Audits are a fast and affordable alternative for small and medium-size businesses to obtain an objective assessment of the health of their IT system. Based on some of the leading remote monitoring and management tools in the industry, and supervised by Progent's world-class group of IT professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the configuration of your core network devices conform to industry best practices. The Basic and Advanced options for ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and provide instant benefits like a more manageable and safer Active Directory implementation. Both versions also offer the ongoing benefits of advanced remote network monitoring and management technology. These advantages can include lower-cost management, better compliance with data security requirements, higher utilization of IT assets, faster troubleshooting, more dependable backup and recovery, and higher availability.
Risk Assessment Support Services
After Hours Risk Response Online Technical Support
Progent's disaster recovery support and business continuity engineers can help you design a disaster recovery strategy in case of an IT system disaster. Progent can show you how to define a comprehensive disaster recovery plan that includes scheduled disaster recovery assessments and testing. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-certified engineers can also help you build an affordable, high-availability network solution that addresses availability issues involving a wide array of network technologies and procedures.
Microsoft LCS Server Engineers
Microsoft LCS Server 2007 Online Technical Support
MS Communications Server provides IM and Real Presence as part of an extensible, enterprise-grade package featuring enhanced security, seamless compatibility with popular Microsoft software, an expandable, standards-based development environment, and compliance with regulatory mandates such as HIPAA, Sarbanes-Oxley, and Gramm-Leach-Bliley. Your enterprise can realize lower costs and elevated operational efficiencies, enhanced worker productivity, and better IP protection with this easy-to-manage, fault-tolerant IM platform. Effective implementations of Microsoft Office Communications Server require extensive planning and consideration before installation. Progent's Microsoft-certified professionals can deliver the skill needed to realize all the advantages of Office Communications Server across your whole corporation.
Windows and UNIX Specialists
UNIX with Windows Support Services
Progent's UNIX platform support services provide small companies and software developers support for managing and maintaining UNIX, Linux or Solaris environments that run with Microsoft-based networks. Progent offers your business access to UNIX consultants, support professionals premier by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA and CISSP credentials. This wide array of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to show you how to create and manage a secure and robust mixed-platform network and communications environment that allows UNIX and Microsoft coexistence by integrating MS Windows with popular versions of UNIX including Apple Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or major Linux variations such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, fedora, Gentoo, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware.
Nationwide Remote Security Consulting Services
Maryland Integration Specialist
Progent's Technical Response Center (TRC) offers affordable national after-hours remote assistance for information systems based on Windows and Cisco products and technologies. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco-Certified service experts provide 24x7 telephone help and remote secure network connection to troubleshoot and resolve technical problems rapidly and economically.
MCSE Expert Certified UNIX, Windows Specialists
Microsoft Experts Consultant Services Windows and UNIX
If your company operates a UNIX, Linux, or Solaris network or a mixed-platform computer system, Progent's CISA and CISSP-premier consultants can help your entire organization in a broad range of security topics such as security administration practices, security architecture and strategies, connection control products and techniques, software development security, business processes security, physical security, telecommunications, network and Internet security, and business continuity preparedness. CISM and CISSP stipulate the fundamental competencies and international standards of performance that network security professionals are required to possess. These certification offer IT management the confidence that consultants who have achieved their CISM, CISSP or ISSAP qualification have the experience and theory to deliver world-class security management and engineering services.
Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Consultant Services
Comprehensive Event Management Support
Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts have more than 10 years of experience planning, deploying, optimizing and troubleshooting System Center Operations Manager environments and offer organizations of all sizes expert remote or onsite consulting support for Microsoft SCOM 2012. Progent can help you to design an architecture for System Center 2012 Operations Manager servers that delivers the responsiveness and resilience needed to watch over your datacenter efficiently, whether your datacenters are onsite, cloud-based, or a mixed environment. Progent's SCOM consultants can also assist you to import and set up SCOM 2012 management packs based on industry best practices for tracking network fabric as well as Microsoft and 3rd-party apps and services. In addition, Progent can provide fast online or on-premises technical support to assist you to fix critical problems uncovered by System Center 2012 Operations Manager.
Infor SyteLine CloudSuite Specialist
24-7 SyteLine Specialist
Infor CloudSuite Industrial, previously known as SyteLine, is an ERP platform that incorporates more than a quarter century of experience helping manufacturing and distribution organizations to simplify supply chains and improve the efficiency of critical processes to bring products to market fast and meet customer commitments consistently. Progent offers the expertise of an ERP consultant with over 20 years of background working with the Infor CloudSuite Industrial/SyteLine product family. Progent offers online or on-premises services that can range from as-needed guidance to comprehensive solution planning and project management. Sample consulting services available from Progent for Infor CloudSuite Industrial include implementation, migration, process improvement, application development, CPQ, web site integration, debugging, ETL, Excel and SQL integration, disaster recovery planning, and DBA services.
Security Penetration Testing Testing
PEN Testing Network Consulting
Stealth intrusion checking is a key component of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration checks without the knowledge of your organization's internal IT resources. Unannounced penetration checking uncovers whether current security defense tools such as intrusion detection alerts and event history analysis are properly configured and consistently monitored. Progent can provide ongoing autonomous penetration testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, improper configurations, compromised credentials, missing patches, and unsound IT product defaults can be chained together by hackers into the multi-front attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware.
Amazon hybrid cloud integration Development Companies
Biggest Amazon Web Services enterprise hybrid cloud solutions Coding
Progent offers affordable online support to assist companies of any size to integrate Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services such as Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) for virtual server hosting, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Glacier. Progent can help your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including requirements analysis, readiness assessment, system design, testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, software license management, backup/restore solutions, and security and compliance.
Top Dynamics GP Update Professional Akron, Summit County
Consultant Dynamics GP Upgrade Akron
Progent's consultants have delivered support for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Great Plains software for over two decades and Progent has provided system integration, customization, training, and troubleshooting since the product's original release. Progent offers top-tier support for upgrading out of date Dynamics GP deployments. Progent can assist you to design, pilot, and carry out an efficient upgrade from a an outdated version to the newest edition of Microsoft Dynamics GP.
Shared Helpdesk Computer Consultant
Specialist Extended Helpdesk
Progent's Microsoft certified experts provide several service programs to help medium-size and large organizations develop an efficient and successful internal Computer Support Help Desk Call Center. Progent's help desk consulting services include Return on Investment analysis, process analysis and improvement, executive reporting, education of internal staff, and documentation of processes. Progent's Software Evaluation and Deployment Services help companies sift through the various high-quality Help Desk software packages on the market and decide what products may be too expensive, lack key features, or align badly with your organization's corporate culture. Progent also provides temporary staffing for companies who want to augment their in-house Help Desk team for special projects or to substitute for absent or indisposed personnel.
NetApp MetroCluster Technology Professional
24-7 NetApp MetroCluster Troubleshooting Technology Professional
NetApp MetroCluster is a high-availability and disaster recovery software suite that combines array-based storage clustering with continual replication to deliver rapid, zero data loss disaster recovery between datacenters that are as far as 185 miles (300km) apart. Progent's team of veteran network experts can help you to design, deploy, administer, upgrade, test and repair a disaster recovery solution based on NetApp MetroCluster. Progent can assist you to select an architecture for your MetroCluster deployment that meets your technical requirements and budget. Progent can ensure you follow leading practices for installing your MetroCluster environment by providing guidance with procedures like assigning disk pools, arranging plexes layout, provisioning FlexVol volumes, setting up Data ONTAP configuration replication service, provisioning switches, designing a tiebreaker mechanism, designing a TCP/IP configuration replication network between your storage clusters, and testing your DR solution to show adherence with information assurance standards and regulatory requirements.
Windows 11 Wigets Online Support
Windows 11 Consulting Services
Progent's Windows 11 consulting experts can provide an array of services for Windows 11 including Microsoft 365 integration, mobile management and synchronization, at-home workforce connectivity, data and identity security, centralized deployment, and Help Desk services.
Urgent Network Performance Troubleshooting Integration Support
Network Performance Optimization Specialists
Progent's ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure management service that makes it simple and inexpensive for small and mid-sized businesses to diagram, track, optimize and debug their connectivity hardware like switches, firewalls, and wireless controllers plus servers, printers, client computers and other networked devices. Incorporating cutting-edge RMM technology, WAN Watch ensures that network diagrams are always current, captures and displays the configuration of almost all devices on your network, tracks performance, and generates alerts when problems are discovered. By automating time-consuming management processes, WAN Watch can knock hours off common chores like network mapping, reconfiguring your network, locating devices that require critical software patches, or resolving performance problems.
Select Topic: