Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a significant impact on network architecture, security, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Monterey company to pick the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand guidance for helping you past challenging technical roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Monterey, California organizations to with any aspect of building a high-performing remote work environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Security for Telecommuters
At-home workers typically use their own devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of IT security solutions experts can assist your business to plan, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network that can be safely accessed by on-premises users and by telecommuters, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and control different permissions to various classes of users and to scale your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks grow more sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older security appliances from all leading vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall support services, visit firewall support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various computers utilized by at-home workers and either reject or spot and respond to modern threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks before they can spread. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the impacted device from the network to contain the malware. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is autonomous, endpoints remain secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for telecommuters.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For more information about Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of external and local security attacks for an environment that includes teleworkers. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be managed by security experts with top credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist you to evaluate your workflows and governance policies and review your WAN infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, rank, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To view or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for securing a network that includes telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To contact Progent about creating and managing an efficient work-from-home environment for your Monterey, California organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.