Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience helping SMBs to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Rancho Cordova organization to select the right tools and follow leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual solution for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Rancho Cordova, California companies to with any facet of creating a high-performing remote work ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk outsourcing, data security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Security and Compliance for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of data security support consultants can help you to plan, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that include at-home workers.
Firewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances permit you to configure and control appropriate permissions to various groups of users and to expand your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and legacy security devices from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support services, see firewall support expertise.
Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate computers utilized by teleworkers and either reject or identify and respond to modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the infected device from the network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, visit remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.
Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of outside and internal security threats for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can run online, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by data security experts with top certifications including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your processes and policies and review your WAN infrastructure to allow you to implement the highest level of protection for your remote workers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper describing critical things to focus on for protecting a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
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