Expanding your at-home workforce can have a significant impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience helping SMBs to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Austin organization to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you past challenging technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent can help Austin, Texas businesses to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home workers typically utilize their own devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of IT security solutions consultants can assist you to plan, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in networks that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as cyber threats become more complex. Progent supports both new and legacy firewall devices from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall integration services, visit firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management for TelecommutersRemote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers utilized by at-home workers and either reject or identify and mitigate the latest threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new threats before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the infected device from the network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, visit remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all classes of outside and internal security threats for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for rapidly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by security professionals with advanced certifications including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your workflows and policies and assess your IT infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical areas to focus on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Austin, Texas business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.