Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Houston company to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers services that go from on demand expertise for helping you past occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Houston, Texas companies to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Security and Compliance for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically use their personal computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of IT security support experts can assist you to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that include at-home workers.
Firewalls allow companies to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by teleworkers, mobile users, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to configure and control different permissions to different classes of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as network attacks become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and legacy security appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, visit firewall integration and support expertise.
Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by an at-home workforce and either block or identify and mitigate modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on every secured endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new attacks at inception. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly isolates the impacted endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.
Progent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all types of outside and local security threats for an environment that includes teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by data security professionals with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your workflows and policies and assess your IT infrastructure to enable you to design top-level security for your an at-home workforce.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical things to focus on for securing a network that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
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