Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, administer, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Mexico City organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you past challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Mexico City, México businesses to with any aspect of building a high-performing remote work environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk outsourcing, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure needed for a remote work environment can be particularly complex if you must accommodate a combination of worker-owned hardware like desktop computers and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from various vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing remote support for both outdated as well as current IT products in remote office venues allows you to make efficient use of your available network infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential upgrades. Support services available from Progent to help you to implement a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network (VPN) connectivity allows you to establish a safe tunnel for authorized remote employees to access IT resources located at your company datacenter or in the cloud. Progent can help your company to deploy and manage VPN access between your at-home workforce and your key network resources by providing remote VPN integration support. For organizations with Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA experts can assist your at-home workers to set up Cisco's AnyConnect client software to provide safe VPN connections for a wide selection of endpoint devices including Microsoft Windows, Mac, Apple iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms enable an at-home worker to see and interact with a remote PC's desktop. This technology gives IT managers substantial control over the digital environment of telecommuters and ensures them a consistent and more productive experience. Progent's virtual desktop consulting services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI consulting.
  • Routers attach at-home computer networks to the Internet and typically support VPN connections, home wireless connectivity, and firewall services. Progent offers expert online support for deploying home routers from a variety of vendors. See router configuration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wireless networks, often shared by an entire household and guests, are frequently used by at-home employees to connect to their router for work. This can cause performance as well as security issues. Progent can assist businesses to resolve these issues by delivering services like Aironet integration expertise, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi installation consulting, and Ubiquiti wireless access point integration assistance.
  • Internet access methods impact the performance and reliability of connections between telecommuters and the company network. Line-of-business applications might require backup Internet connections in case the primary connection breaks. Progent offers guidance for selecting ISPs, selecting sensible service packages, and setting up redundant Internet access. Refer to Internet connectivity solutions.

IP Voice Integration for an At-Home Workforce
Expanding the company phone system to accommodate remote users is vital to maintaining a productive work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-based digital PBX platforms are used by SMBs to support remote users. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's modern or legacy products for VoIP management. Progent can assist businesses of all sizes to design or tune a remote VoIP environment that delivers the flexibility, transparency and protection required for telecommuters. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide high-level support to help businesses tune their current Cisco VoIP systems to support a growing at-home workforce.

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM) delivers advanced telephony features to devices such as VoIP phones, media processing products, Voice over IP gateways, and multimedia software used across the network. Unified Communications Manager manages additional mixed media services such as messaging, voice/video conferencing, and customer interaction networks. For details about Progent's Unified Communications Manager expertise, refer to Cisco Unified CM consulting services.
  • CallManager is Cisco's legacy call-processing software and has been superseded by CUCM. Progent's consultants can help you to maintain your current CallManager environment or upgrade smoothly to Cisco's modern IP telephony products. For details about Progent's expertise for CallManager and Cisco's other early IP voice platforms, refer to Cisco CallManager expertise.
  • Cisco IP Gateways provide connectivity with public telephony networks and with clients operating outside the corporate firewall such as at-home workers. Progent can provide consulting expertise for Cisco's earlier generation IP gateways such as the UC520, UC540 and UC560 products and for modern Cisco SIP gateways. See Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateway configuration expertise.
  • Other VoIP Platforms supported by Progent's consultants include Vonage, RingCentral and 8x8. Progent can help you to enhance your wide area network architecture to support these solutions and provide online deployment and troubleshooting expertise.

Video Conferencing for At-Home Workers
A broad range of voice/video conferencing platforms from leading vendors support online meetings, video and voice conferencing, chat, and content sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many companies utilize multiple conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can assist your organization to maintain your existing conferencing environment and optimize the productivity of your at-home workforce.

  • Skype for Business is Microsoft's popular communications product that enables real-time presence, instant messaging, audio and video conferencing plus the transparent integration of these functions within Office desktop and Microsoft 365 productivity software including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel. Progent can provide the expertise of Microsoft-certified consultants who can assist you to configure and manage Skype for Business clients to accommodate your remote workforce. To learn more about Progent's support expertise for Skype for Business, visit Skype for Business consulting services.
  • FaceTime is Apple's multiuser video phone platform for compatible iOS and macOS computers and smartphones. FaceTime runs on Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connections. Current versions of FaceTime support as many as 32 concurrent users for voice/video calls. To learn more about Progent's consulting expertise for Apple FaceTime, visit Progent's FaceTime configuration expertise.
  • Webex Meeting Center supports remote conferencing for virtually all computing devices. Offered through Cisco's Webex Cloud, Webex services include sharing granular content or screens, presentations that embed rich media such as Microsoft PowerPoint and Flash videos, session capture, plus revision and playback for training. For details about Progent's consulting services for Webex and for additional IP video products from Cisco, refer to Progent's Webex Meeting Center support services.
  • Teams is Microsoft's next-generation replacement for Skype for Business. Teams provides a portal for conversations, contacts, and content with features that include video calling, persistent chat, plus data sharing. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Teams as well as for other Microsoft 365 apps, visit Progent's Microsoft Teams consulting services.
  • Other Voice/Video Conferencing Platforms supported by Progent include Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Zoom, and Slack. Progent can provide integration and troubleshooting services for these products and help your business to optimize your network architecture to run them.

Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office families, providing a powerful environment of productivity apps that deliver a cohesive user interface for exchanging data and ideas throughout multiple sites and on a broad selection of endpoints. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their initial publication and can help your company to deploy these critical collaboration products to maximize the productivity of your remote workforce.

Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.

Microsoft Teams Solutions Experts for TelecommutersMicrosoft Teams works with Microsoft 365 and integrates with third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration. Designed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can support chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of features. To learn more about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams, see solution design and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams.

SharePoint Server Configuration Experts for Remote WorkersSharePoint utilizes web entities to promote collaboration and information delivery by providing policy-driven delivery of content, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to create secure web portals that enables at-home workers to view and update consolidated business intelligence via Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, see SharePoint integration and development consulting.

Exchange Integration Experts for Remote WorkersExchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To learn about Progent's Exchange support services, visit integration consulting for Exchange.

Onedrive Configuration Consultants for Remote WorkersOneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud-based storage service, comparable to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues anywhere can access them securely via a browser. Included with Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows home workers to co-author files. Edits created offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, go to Onedrive configuration consulting.

Cloud Integration Services for Telecommuters
Progent offers affordable remote support for helping organizations to build, maintain and repair integrated network models that combine internal data centers, at-home workers, branches, plus cloud services. Progent can provide top-tier consultant for all types of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers resolve problems with cloud connectivity, identity, and security.

Azure Integration for TelecommutersMicrosoft Azure is a leading platform for cloud software and services that allows you to use infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure includes over one hundred services services such as hosting for Windows and Linux-powered VMs, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can help your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure Active Directory, and plan data backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to establish protected access to Azure for remote workers by configuring and debugging firewall appliances and VPN IPsec tunnels. To learn about Progent's expertise for Azure, see Microsoft Azure expertise.

Microsoft 365 Integration Services for TelecommutersMicrosoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's growing suite of client productivity software and cloud services available on a subscription basis. Microsoft apps and services are marketed in a selection of plans designed for users ranging from individuals and small offices to large corporations. Progent offers fast and easy online access to experts knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent can assist you to assess the numerous subscription plans offered with Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your telecommuters to achieve top business value. To learn about Progent's support services for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 integration support.

Exchange Online Integration for TelecommutersExchange Online is among the most widely used applications in the Microsoft 365 product suite. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower spending for data center infrastructure, simplified management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional benefits associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to run smoothly with local Exchange environments, enabling customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's Exchange consultants are available for as-needed help to guide you past tough technical bottlenecks and also offer end-to-end project management services to make sure your at-home workers have convenient and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. To learn Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, see Exchange Online configuration and support expertise.

Amazon AWS Integration for TeleworkersAmazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud computing market and is the world's leading source of cloud-based services. Progent can provide fast and affordable online contact with cloud connectivity experts who can help your business to design, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds such as Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to help your company to build a high-availability network model to make sure your employees have a consistent computing experience whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the road. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS consulting support.

Google Cloud Integration for TelecommutersGoogle Cloud Platform is a leading collection of cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can assist you to expand your current IT assets with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can show you how to make your key apps cloud ready so your remote workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud services. Progent can help you to set up VMs on GCP Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage system with GCP Storage services, and simplify identity management for telecommuters with GCP Cloud Identity. Progent's experts can also assist you to utilize GCP's unified management technology to control and track your Google Cloud environment. To learn, visit Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration support.

Help Desk Call Center Services for Telecommuters
An emergency, enterprise-wide changeover to a from-home workforce, which could be activated by a pandemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity plan, can overstretch even a high-performing internal Call Desk. Progent's Help Desk services allow organizations of any size to outsource or expand their Call Desk with Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.

  • Progent's Standard Help Desk support services utilize Progent's extensive team of online technical support experts along with world-class trouble ticketing and tracking software to offer an affordable, modern Call Desk. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer a comprehensive solution that addresses all facets of online Level 1 desktop technical support from help requests through ticket creation, screen sharing, issue resolution, and reporting. A browser-based User's Service Portal allows from-home workers to track or revise the status of their current trouble tickets, add information, and upload screen captures and attachments. Support services are delivered at a substantial discount off Progent's normal Level 1 desktop support rates, and Progent makes available optional fast hand-off to Level 2 and Level 3 support experts to resolve advanced problems. To find out more, see Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services for small companies.
  • Progent's Help Desk Augmentation Service allows your business to supplement your current Call Center organization by splitting delivery of Call Center services transparently between your regular IT support staff and Progent's extensive team of PC support engineers and subject matter experts. Progent's shared Help Desk Call Center service uses a collective support model utilizing the leading PSA platform for handling help requests and trouble tickets, establishing ownership, monitoring progress, and generating management reports. For details about how Progent's Support Desk Supplementation Services can help your business to deliver world-class technical support to your at-home workforce, visit Progent's Help Desk Call Center augmentation Services.

Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
At-home staff members commonly use their personal computers and often work in an unsecured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user education, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of IT security solutions consultants can assist your business to plan, implement and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical IT resources in networks that include at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be securely utilized by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances allow you to configure and manage appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and adjust your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow more sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older security appliances from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall integration services, refer to firewall support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management Services for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the various computers utilized by teleworkers and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the infected endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, visit remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for rapidly and economically detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found 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 operations and policies and assess your network architecture to enable you to design top-level protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for protecting an IT environment that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Data Protection Solutions for At-Home Workers
The field of Data Protection involves backing up and recovering critical information so as to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in the event of storage system failures resulting from equipment breakdowns, programming hiccups, user error, cyber attack, or any other reason. Reliable data protection solutions can be particularly difficult to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that combine local data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.

  • Backup/Restore solutions for at-home workers must address diverse kinds of personally owned endpoint devices. Progent can provide fast remote access to experts knowledgeable about a wide range of platforms for backing up Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX servers and desktops as well as notebooks, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones. Popular backup/recovery solutions supported by Progent's data protection experts include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, DoubleTake Software, CrashPlan, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To protect data distributed across a hybrid network, Progent can provide ProSight Data Protection Services, a managed backup/recovery subscription service that uses cloud storage and features granular recovery and centralized management.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies often anticipate scenarios that call for a rapid switch to an at-home workforce. Progent's expert disaster recovery preparedness consultants and business continuity consultants can assist your business to produce, document and test a DR/BC plan that includes the logistics of moving to an at-home workforce.

Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager provides a centralized environment for protecting corporate data by managing onsite, mobile, and at-home endpoint devices.

Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also includes Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing off-premises computers and software. Managed endpoint computers can be personally owned or business owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint computers of teleworkers can utilize Intune to provision and validate applications on devices, push updates and certificates, set up rules for permission to access information and resources, manage passwords, create VPN connections, control how home-based workers share information, set up threat defense, verify compliance, and erase corporate data from missing, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune runs with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. For details about Microsoft Intune and to find out how Progent can assist your company to use this platform to administer the endpoint devices of your telecommuters, visit Intune telecommuter endpoint management experts.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform that helps network managers to keep offsite endpoints up to date and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration plus VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for identity control, application management, and setup management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE operates with devices based on Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises product via a perpetual license. Top features of Workspace ONE include fast remote provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all classes of endpoints, aggregated reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and integration with Microsoft applications and cloud products. For information about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, go to VMware Workspace ONE remote device management expertise.

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Mexico City, México company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.