Progent's CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts can help you to manage older PIX 500 or ASA 5500 firewalls or transition to Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls. Progent can also help you to set up, administer, update and debug Cisco ASA 5500-X firewalls with Firepower Services.
Progent's non-stop inter-site connectivity and 24x7 system infrastructure consultants can help small companies create zero-downtime Interoffice connectivity via fully redundant networks featuring transparent failover. Progent's Cisco Certified Internetwork Experts can plan and implement ultra-reliable Inter-office networks based on non-stop EIGRP routers or fault tolerant OSPF deployment of Cisco routers. Progent can show you how multi-path connections and automatic fail-over can provide economical non-stop interoffice networking.
Progent is a reseller and consulting firm for SentinelOne's Singularity product family, a subscription-based, cloud-centric threat management platform that incorporates machine learning technology and advanced services to deliver comprehensive endpoint detection and response.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can provide companies of all sizes consulting, technical support, and development services for Microsoft SharePoint and SharePoint Online. Microsoft SharePoint is an advanced collaboration platform that utilizes web technology for intelligently coordinating people, teams and data. SharePoint Server provides a common location for your workers or customers to access, organize, distribute and manipulate useful information, files, and applications and to communicate with other people. SharePoint enables quicker and more intelligent decisions, more efficient access across teams and more economical business practices. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, customers, workgroups and major tasks with the knowledge they've created in a way that makes data easy to find, download and re-use. Progent's SharePoint consultants can assist you to manage your existing SharePoint solution or migrate to the current version of SharePoint.
Progent has a long background delivering a full-spectrum of remote network consulting and urgent repair services to local governments and schools across the United States. Progent is one of the industry's pioneers in providing advanced remote network support and has provided network solutions to organizations in every state. Remote support eliminates travel costs and solves problems faster than onsite support.
Stealth penetration testing is a key part of any overall network security plan. Progent's security professionals can run extensive penetration tests without the awareness of your organization's internal IT staff. Stealth penetration testing shows whether current security monitoring systems such as intrusion detection alerts and event history monitoring are correctly configured and actively observed. Progent can implement ongoing automatic PEN testing to define your internal and external attack surface and to identify ways that exploitable vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, compromised credentials, skipped patches, and dangerous product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-front attacks common to modern versions of ransomware.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified network infrastructure experts offer advanced support services for Cisco Unified Communications Manager (previously CallManager). Progent can help you to integrate VoIP phones, design dial plans, set up SIP trunking and PSTN connections, deploy Cisco ISR G2 routers with CUBE support, and deploy UCS server high availability systems.
Progent uses a sophisticated service reporting system that stores and organizes complete documentation for all delivered support activities. Unlike some independent consultants or small service firms who provide minimal documentation or details of tasks done, every service provided by Progent is accompanied by comprehensive documentation. Each Progent consultant has use of the service reports sent by every consultant to each client. The practice of detailing and archiving support activity results in more effective service and eliminates a slew of typical misfortunes such as when a service customer is effectively held captive to a consultant who refuses to let go of vital service information.
Progent's ProSight Email Guard solution uses the technology of top data security vendors to provide centralized control and comprehensive protection for your email traffic. The powerful structure of Progent's Email Guard managed service integrates cloud-based filtering with an on-premises security gateway appliance to offer advanced defense against spam, viruses, Denial of Service Attacks, Directory Harvest Attacks, and other email-borne threats. The Cloud Protection Layer acts as a preliminary barricade and keeps the vast majority of threats from making it to your security perimeter. This decreases your vulnerability to inbound attacks and saves network bandwidth and storage. Email Guard's on-premises security gateway device adds a further layer of analysis for incoming email. For outgoing email, the local gateway provides AV and anti-spam protection, DLP, and email encryption. The local security gateway can also help Microsoft Exchange Server to monitor and protect internal email that stays within your security perimeter.
Progent is one of the most expert network support companies for creating email and messaging systems based on Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server. Progent specializes in helping small businesses derive all the benefits of Microsoft Exchange Server 2000 under common situations such as updating from Microsoft Exchange 5.5, migration from an ISP-managed or POP3 e-mail system, and using managed services for your Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server support.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Windows Server 2019 consultants can assist your organization to design and implement an efficient migration to Windows Server 2019 using your current system architecture or a new cloud-hosted or hybrid deployment model. Microsoft Windows Server 2019 delivers significant improvements in capacity, performance, ease of management, virtualization, security and compliance, hybrid on-prem plus cloud integration, resilience, and Linux support.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Internet Security and Acceleration Server consultants have extensive experience creating Microsoft-based security solutions for information systems with multiple sites, remote workers, and mission-critical web-based applications. A Progent ISA Server consultant can help your small business plan and deploy a configuration of Microsoft ISA Server 2004 that supports your information protection requirements without restricting your network.
If your company operates a Sun Solaris environment or a multi-OS IT environment, Progent's CISM and CISSP-certified security specialists can assist your whole organization in a wide range of security topics such as security administration practices, security architecture and strategies, connection control systems and methodology, software development security, operations security, hardware security, communications, network and Internet security, and workplace recovery planning. CISM and ISSAP stipulate the basic skills and worldwide standards of performance that information security managers are required to possess. These certification give IT management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISM, CISSP or ISSAP qualification have the background and theory to offer effective security support and consulting help.
Progent can assist you with any aspect of Azure cloud integration such as needs definition, readiness assessment, system design, pilot testing, deployment, centralized administration, performance optimization, license management, disaster recovery strategies, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance validation. Progent can assist your IT staff to set up and troubleshoot firewall appliances and VPN tunnels so that your users can securely connect to Azure-based resources, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you set up key Microsoft technologies to run in the cloud including Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and SharePoint. Progent can also help your organization to create a hybrid cloud ecosystem that seamlessly integrates physical datacenters with Azure-based services.
Progent's certified ISA Server consultants have broad backgrounds creating Microsoft-based security solutions for IT networks with multiple sites, mobile workers, and mission-critical eCommerce applications. A Progent ISA Server engineer is ready to help your small business plan and deploy a configuration of ISA Server 2004 that meets your IT protection needs without restricting your productivity.
Progent's consultants can assist you with every aspect of Microsoft Azure integration such as requirements analysis, readiness assessment, solution architecture, pilot testing, implementation, automated management, performance tuning, software license management, disaster recovery preparedness, security policy enforcement, and regulatory compliance assessment. Progent can help you to configure and troubleshoot firewalls and VPN connections so that your users can safely access to Azure-based services, and Progent's Microsoft-certified consulting experts can assist you set up key Microsoft technologies to run in Azure including Windows Server, Exchange, SQL and Skype for Business. Progent can also help you to set up a hybrid cloud environment that seamlessly integrates on-premises datacenters with Azure-based resources.
Progent's support services for software/firmware update management provide businesses of any size a flexible and affordable solution for evaluating, validating, scheduling, applying, and tracking software and firmware updates to your servers, endpoint devices scanners, network infrastructure appliances like switches and Wi-Fi APs, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices like sensors and robotics.
Progent's Windows Server 2019 disaster recovery planning consultants can help you to plan and deploy a disaster recovery system built around Microsoft's cloud-tested Failover Clustering technologies such as Cluster Sets, Storage Replica, Storage Spaces Direct, VM Load Balancing, and Cloud Witness.
Widows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V advances the power of server virtualization in important areas such as multitenancy, flexible infrastructure, cloud readiness, expandability and performance, and fault tolerance. Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can assist your business to take advantage of Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V to deploy and manage virtual servers to cut network costs and improve availability.
Progent is a certified Hornetsecurity/Altaro partner and can design, install, and manage a deployment of 365 Total Backup to protect your Microsoft 365 user and group mailboxes, files residing on your company's OneDrive Accounts and SharePoint sites, user and group Teams Chats, plus files on Windows-powered endpoints.
Remote continuous network monitoring, automated alerts, and periodic reports are vital to preserving the proper operation of your network and avoiding preventable and costly disruptions. Remote Monitoring and Management solutions have advanced to the point that businesses of all sizes can get a level of network stability that was previously limited to large enterprises. Progent offers a variety Remote Monitoring and Management solutions delivered as low-cost service packages created to assist you to detect and fix a an array of IT network problems before they get big enough to hurt productivity.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants offer companies of all sizes consulting, troubleshooting, and development expertise for Microsoft SharePoint Server and SharePoint Online. SharePoint is an enterprise solution that utilizes web technology for efficiently coordinating people, teams and data. Microsoft SharePoint Server offers a central location for your employees or customers to access, manage, distribute and interact with useful data, documents, and applications and to interact with one another. SharePoint allows quicker and better decisions, more effective access across teams and more economical business processes. Windows SharePoint Services connect workers, clients, workgroups and projects with the information they've created in a way that makes data convenient to locate, retrieve and re-use. Progent's certified SharePoint experts can assist you to maintain your existing SharePoint solution or migrate to the current version of SharePoint.
Progent's Microsoft-authorized experts can show you how to rationalize the economic case for deploying Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007, consult with you on the most sensible version of SharePoint for your circumstances, offer setup and deployment expertise, assist you to install Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end database manager, optimize your network integrity, integrate your standard and custom application software to work with SharePoint Server 2007, develop a comprehensive security plan that encompasses portal solutions, and deliver troubleshooting and Help Desk services.
Stealth penetration testing is an important component of any overall IT system security plan. Progent's security experts can run thorough intrusion checks without the awareness of your company's in-house IT staff. Unannounced penetration testing uncovers whether existing security monitoring tools such as intrusion incident alerts and event history monitoring are properly configured and actively observed. Progent can provide ongoing automatic PEN testing to map your internal/external attack surface and to detect ways that vulnerabilities, unsafe configurations, stolen credentials, skipped patches, and ill-advised IT product defaults can be chained together by threat actors into the multi-vector attacks typical of the latest variants of ransomware.
Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified Consultants provide several service programs to help medium-size and large businesses develop a cost-effective and successful in-house Network Support Help Desk. Progent's consulting services include Return on Investment evaluation, process study and improvement, management reporting, education of in-house staff, and documentation of procedures. Progent's Software Evaluation and Deployment Support Services help organizations sift through the numerous high-quality Help Desk software packages on the market and determine which packages may be too expensive, lack critical functions, or align poorly with your organization's business goals. Progent also offers temporary staffing for businesses who need to reinforce their in-house Help Desk team for special tasks or to substitute for vacationing or incapacitated workers.
Progent's Cisco IP phone and video IP phone experts can help you to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, desktop video IP phones and wireless IP handsets. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy Voice over IP products to the newest HD media phones. Progent's IP telephony experts can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally branded CallManager, or with Unified Communications Manager Express to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can also assist you to install Cisco Unified CM applications such as Cisco Unified CM IM and Presence Jabber, Unity Connection for voicemail management, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach (SNR, and Cisco Contact Center Express (Unified CCX or CCX) for creating a highly automated customer contact center. Progent's consultants can provide expertise with all aspects of Cisco IP Phone integration including designing dial plans, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and creating UCS server clustering and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for high availability.
Progent's ProSight Network Audits offer a quick and low-cost way for small and medium-size businesses to get an objective evaluation of the overall health of their IT system. Powered by some of the top remote monitoring and management tools available, and supervised by Progent's certified team of information technology professionals, ProSight Network Audits show you how well the deployment of your essential infrastructure devices conform to industry best practices. Both the Basic and Advanced versions of ProSight Network Audit services are available at a budget-friendly, one-time cost and deliver instant ROI such as a more manageable and safer AD environment. Both options also offer the long-term benefits of cutting-edge remote network monitoring and management technology. These advantages can include lower-cost network management, better compliance with data security requirements, higher utilization of IT assets, quicker troubleshooting, more dependable backup and restore, and increased uptime.
Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior machine learning technology from SentinelOne to defend endpoint devices as well as physical and virtual servers against modern malware assaults like ransomware and email phishing, which easily evade traditional signature-based anti-virus products. ProSight ASM protects on-premises and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the entire malware attack lifecycle including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, cleanup, and forensics. Top capabilities include one-click rollback with Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and real-time system-wide immunization against new threats.
Progent's Microsoft-Premier SQL consultants offer a range of services to assist small companies to plan, configure, manage, and repair SQL Server 2008 systems in order to get the maximum strategic benefit from Microsoft's state-of-the-art database management platform. In addition, Progent offers consulting expertise for network architecture, company-wide protection, and application programming to optimize the business value of your SQL Server 2008 network.
Progent's Solaris platform consulting services provide small companies and software developers assistance with managing and maintaining Sun Solaris systems that coexist with Microsoft-powered technology. Progent offers your organization access to Solaris consultants, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security specialists with CISA and CISSP credentials. This broad array of expertise provides you with an easy one-stop source to help you build and maintain a secure and reliable cross-platform network and communications solution that allows Sun Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by integrating MS Windows with popular variants of UNIX including Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX UNIX from IBM, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, BSD, SCO, and Silicon Graphics IRIX (SGI/IRIX or major Linux platforms including RedHat Linux, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux, PCLOS, fedora, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake, Debian-GNU, and Slackware Linux.
Progent's Sun Solaris platform consulting experts provide small companies and software developers help with administering and supporting Sun Solaris systems that operate with Microsoft-based networks. Progent can give your organization access to Solaris experts, support professionals certified by Microsoft and Cisco, and security experts with CISA and CISSP certification. This broad array of expertise offers you an easy one-stop consulting firm to help you create and maintain a protected and robust cross-platform connectivity and communications infrastructure that allows Solaris and Microsoft interoperability by integrating Microsoft Windows with popular versions of UNIX such as Mac OS X, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, Berkeley UNIX (BSD), SCO UNIX, and SGI/Irix or major Linux platforms such as RedHat, SUSE, CentOS Linux, Ubuntu Linux, PCLinuxOS, fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, Mandriva Linux, Debian GNU/Linux, and Slackware Linux.
Cisco has developed a full product line of routers including routers built to provide the protection, bandwidth, and reliability required by customers ranging from small offices to worldwide enterprises and service providers. Cisco routers include support for redundancy, transparent failover, and backup power for improved fault tolerance and network uptime. Progent can show you how to choose and configure Cisco routers to build a solid infrastructure for your IT system and to make it economical to expand as you add new users, open new offices, deploy new services, extend your network to clients and partners, and support a more mobile workforce. Progent offers expertise in a variety of routers based on Cisco's IOS operating system, including Cisco's 800 series of small business routers, Cisco 2800 and 3800 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco 2900 and 3900 G2 Integrated Services Routers, Cisco ASR 1000 and 9000 Aggregation Services Routers for wide area network edge applications, Cisco CRS Carrier Routing System for core Networks, plus older 2500 and 2700 Routers.
Progent offers organizations of any size expert consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN products from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper Networks, Fortinet, and SonicWall. Progent can help you create a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate technologies from multiple suppliers to achieve your security objectives while sticking within your budget restraints.
Progent provides companies of any size professional consulting for Intrusion Protection Systems and IPsec VPN solutions from leading firewall and VPN security companies including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point Software, Juniper, Fortinet, and SonicWall. Progent can show you how to design a comprehensive security plan and select appropriate technologies from a variety of vendors to achieve your security goals while sticking within your budget restraints.
Progent's Microsoft-certified consultants can help organizations of any size to follow leading practices to set up SCVMM 2012 hosts and host groups, fabric, storage, and libraries; plan, integrate, and administer private clouds, virtual machines, and services in SCVMM 2012; and integrate SCVMM with System Center 2012 Operations Manager for enterprise-class monitoring. Progent can assist your company to migrate from an older edition of System Center Virtual Machine Manager or from a third-party virtualization management platform, and Progent can show you how you to enhance and troubleshoot your existing SCVMM 2012 environment so you realize the highest possible business value.
Progent's Juniper-certified NetScreen consultants can help your company to install and integrate NetScreen 5200 and 5400 routers, upgrade from older NetScreen devices to more current Juniper products, and troubleshoot network infrastructure issues in Juniper-only or mixed-vendor systems.
Progent offers remote and onsite expertise to help your organization with any facet of business intelligence (BI) reporting ranging from troubleshooting or modernizing reports to planning and deploying a comprehensive BI solution. Progent's management reporting consultants can help your company to maintain your existing BI environment, assist you to migrate reports from a legacy reporting product to a current solution, and provide custom online training to meet your specific requirements. Progent's management reporting professionals can provide experience in all popular business intelligence reporting tools including Microsoft's SQL Server business intelligence stack (SSIS, SSAS, and SSRS), Management Reporter/FRx, Microsoft Access, Crystal Reports, Power BI, Excel BI add-ins such as Power Pivot, Power Query and Power View, Report Designer and Report Builder.
If you are producing UNIX or Linux software in an environment that includes Windows-based processors, desktops, and office applications, Progent offers comprehensive IT outsourcing that frees you to focus on your area of high-value expertise without the continual hassle of managing your company information system. By using automated server monitoring and by providing online and in-person support when your company needs it, Progent represents an affordable way for managing an IT system that features high reliability, protection, and performance. Progent's Linux developer support offerings feature comprehensive it outsourcing, virtual server infrastructure, remote and on-premises support and troubleshooting, 24x7 monitoring services, and Help Desk Call Center outsourcing.
Progent's professionals provide expertise in multiple technologies related to mobile networking such as system topology, wireless data synchronization, wireless protection, wireless email, Windows Mobile, Research in Motion Blackberry, and wireless application programming. Progent's Microsoft and Cisco certified experts can save your company work and money by using their wireless background to help you select and integrate wireless access solutions that make sense for your company. Progent can also optimize your IT architecture so that mobile data devices perform better.
Progent can assist you to design and execute a smooth transition from a Solaris-based IT environment to a network powered by Windows and capable of supporting Microsoft's familiar office productivity suites, business applications, and software development platforms. Progent's Sun Solaris, Windows and Cisco engineers and software development specialists can help you preserve your information and reduce productivity disruption by designing an efficient transition plan that protects your current assets in Solaris application and technology. UNIX-to-Windows migration support services offered by Progent include evaluation of current environment, migration strategy and validation, Exchange migration support, data and application software transition, and server and media transition and consolidation.
Progent provides nationwide urgent phone support and consulting services for businesses that run networks based on versions of the Linux OS or whose information systems feature a mix of Linux platforms/Linux and Microsoft Windows products. Remote IT help offers optimum leverage for your IT budget by protecting user productivity and limiting the hours charged for computer repair services. Advanced remote access tools and experienced technicians and consultants combine to enable Progent to solve most network issues without wasting time and money by traveling to your site. In most of cases your network problems can be dealt with by telephone or via a combination of phone help and online connectivity. Progent can make available Cisco certified CCIE network engineers and CISSP certified security professionals to assist with the most challenging system issues.
Progent's Microsoft-certified Forefront TMG and Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006 experts can assist you to plan, deploy, and manage an implementation of Forefront Threat Management Server 2010 or ISA Server 2006 on your information system that provides the firewall protection, performance and manageability that your company requires.
SSL VPN makes it possible to establish a secure Internet connection between an enterprise network and virtually any remote computer without the need for pre-installed client software. Progent's Juniper-certified consultants can help you design, manage, and troubleshoot SSL VPN solutions based on Juniper's AS Series of remote access appliances.
If your company network mixes Solaris platforms with Microsoft Windows, Progent can assist you to integrate your servers into a cohesive environment that allows all your operating systems to coexist for easy administration, seamless dataflow, high reliability, superior throughput, and strong protection. Progent's Solaris and Microsoft Windows integration support services include network infrastructure configuration and support, support for Microsoft Windows services for UNIX (SFU), online server monitoring and management, remote technical support and troubleshooting, in-person technical support, and Help Desk support.
Progent can provide affordable remote access to an Oracle-certified MySQL RDBMS administrator or application developer and can help organizations of all sizes to integrate and manage MySQL within a reliable network environment that provides advanced performance, expandability, and security. Progent also has experience assisting businesses port applications from an Oracle environment to MySQL.
Progent's Juniper-certified network engineers can help you evaluate the business case for adopting Juniper's SRX Series gateways, plan and execute cost-effective deployments, configure equipment to reflect your security strategy, and provide ongoing consulting services to help you monitor, manage, update, and troubleshoot your environment in order to maximize the business value of your SRX gateway solution.
Progent can provide affordable online support to help businesses 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 assist your IT team with every aspect of Amazon AWS migration and troubleshooting including needs analysis, readiness assessment, system design and review, pilot testing, configuration, administration, performance tuning, licensing management, disaster recovery mechanisms, and security.
Progent can help your business to design a migration to Microsoft Teams from Skype for Business Online or Lync Server and install, administer, and debug a cloud-based or hybrid implementation of Microsoft Teams. Progent can help you to connect Teams with Office and Microsoft 365 apps, Exchange, SharePoint, and your PBX.
Progent's Duo managed services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices.
Cisco's security and remote access solutions for small to medium sized companies represent a complete range of easy-to-administer security hardware and software to help you safeguard your wired and wireless information system. Cisco's Virtual Private Network product family includes routers, firewalls, and VPN solutions. Progent's professional staff of consultants includes field-proven engineers with Cisco's Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Cisco Certified Network Professional qualifications who can assist your company to evaluate Cisco Virtual Private Network, Cisco RADIUS Security, and additional Cisco security solutions that align best with your corporate objectives.
Progent's Cisco CCIE-certified VoIP phone and video IP phone consultants can assist your business to integrate, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco VoIP phones, video IP phones and wireless IP phones. Progent offers expertise for all versions of Cisco's IP phones from legacy VoIP products to the latest media phones. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to integrate your VoIP phones and video IP phones with Cisco Unified Communications Manager, originally named CallManager, or with Cisco Unified CM Express (CME) to build a state-of-the-art IP-PBX environment for unified messaging and collaboration. Progent can also help you to configure Unified CM applications that include Unified Communications Manager IM and Presence Jabber, Unity Express for voicemail, Cisco Unified Mobility for Single Number Reach, and Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise for creating an advanced customer contact center. Progent can deliver expertise with all aspects of Cisco VoIP Phone integration including designing dial plans, setting up SIP gateways, deploying ISR G2 routers with CUBE internetworking support, and designing UCS server failover and Cisco Survivable Remote Site Telephony (SRST) systems for survivability.
If your company operates a UNIX or Linux network or a mixed-platform network, Progent's CISA and CISM-certified security specialists can assist your entire enterprise in a broad array of security areas including security administration practices, security architecture and strategies, access control systems and methodology, applications development security, business processes security, hardware security, communications, network and Internet security, and business continuity preparedness. CISM and CISSP stipulate the basic competencies and worldwide standards of knowledge that information security managers are expected to possess. These certification give IT management the assurance that consultants who have earned their CISA or CISSP certification have demonstrated the background and theory to offer effective security support and consulting services.