Security and Compliance

Progent offers fast and economical access to CISSP-certified information security consulting experts. CISSP is the most prized information security credential in the IT industry and denotes mastery of a international standard for network security. To earn CISSP certification, candidates must show in-depth knowledge of advanced information security strategies and confirm years of professional field experience.

American National Standards Institute has awarded CISSP formal recognition in the area of network security under ISO/IEC 17024. This represents the first time that an information technology accreditation has been assigned ANSI approval. CISSP is also officially approved by the U.S. Department of Defense in their Information Assurance Technical and Managerial disciplines. In addition, the CISSP has been accepted as a standard for the U.S. National Security Agency's Information Systems Security Engineering Professional (ISSEP) initiative to secure the NII.

Progent's CISSP information assurance experts can assist organizations of all sizes with cybersecurity issues of any complexity. Progent's remote and onsite service delivery options are designed to match any budget and include urgent or as-needed support with hourly billing, fix-bid support for one-off projects like security audits or stealth penetration testing, or subscription based 24x7 remote monitoring and management (RMM) services.

Progent can help your organization to plan and implement network security solutions that range from guarding a single location for a small business to designing, deploying, and maintaining a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy for hybrid enterprise networks that serve local, online, and mobile clients accessing network resources spanning multiple datacenters and hosted in public and private cloud environments. Progent's information assurance consultants also offer cutting-edge backup and restore consulting services, disaster recovery planning consulting, and business continuity planning consulting. For major information security projects, Progent offers full-service project management outsourcing and co-sourcing support.

Progent can provide a CISSP-certified expert to help your enterprise in a broad range of of network security disciplines covered by the CISSP certification agenda. These areas of expertise include:

• Security Administration Procedures
• Security Architecture and Paradigms
• Access Control Systems and Methodology
• Applications Development Security
• Secure Operations
• Site Security
• Cryptography
• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
• Business Continuity Preparedness
• Risk Analysis
• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics

• Security Administration Procedures
  Security management entails the determination of a company's most important information and the creation, documentation, and carrying out of policies, operations, and standards. Administration techniques such as data classification and risk assessment can be used to identify potential attacks, categorize valuable data, and rate system vulnerabilities so that appropriate controls can be implemented.

• Security Infrastructure and Paradigms
  This covers the principles, structures, and guidelines used to design, monitor, and secure OS platforms, equipment, networks, and applications plus the controls utilized to police different degrees of availability, integrity, and privacy.

• Access Control Solutions and Methodology
  Access controls are a set of technologies that work together to build a security infrastructure to protect the assets of the information system.

• Applications Development Security
  This covers the key security principles related to application development. Applications development security outlines the circumstances where programs are designed and produced and explains the critical role application software has in providing IT system protection.

• Secure Operations
  Operations security has to do with defining the controls over equipment and media and managing the technicians and administrators with access rights to these resources. Audit and tracking are the tools and techniques that permit the awareness of security-related events and subsequent actions to discover the key elements and report the associated data to the designated individual, team, or process.

• Site Security
  Site security provides protection techniques for the whole physical facility, from the outside perimeter to the desk, including all of the information network resources.

• Cryptography
  Data Encryption entails the concepts, techniques, and methods of disguising information to preserve its consistency, privacy, and legitimacy.

• Telecommunications, LAN and Internet Security
  This area has to do with:
  • Network Structures
  • Transmission methods
  • Transport formats
  • Security techniques used to ensure reliability, consistency, and privacy
  • Authentication for traffic over private and public communications networks and media.
• Disaster Recovery Preparedness
  This covers the preservation and restoration of business activity in the event of outages.

• Risk Analysis
  Risk analysis evaluates an organization's vulnerability to threats, sizes the possible damage of various known threats, and identifies appropriate controls and response procedures to reduction exposure.

• Crime Law, Investigation and Ethics
  This has to do with:
  • Information system crime laws
  • The measures followed and mechanisms utilized 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 demonstrated their ability to assist enterprises in the roles of cybersecurity architect, network designer, business analyst, and chief security officer (CSO). Progent's CISSP-ISSAP experts can help you to design a robust architectural foundation into your enterprise security strategy, define and deploy an advanced identity management solution, review and improve your access control processes, provide governance and risk management expertise, assess and improve application development security, and design 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 proven their ability to provide large organizations 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 network security consultant to help your organization to utilize current system security engineering theory and processes in system development, review and evaluate system security designs according to 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 protection for operations, perform comprehensive risk analysis, and recommend realistic cybersecurity solutions 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 trying to find network security help, call Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.