Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a major effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Reston company to pick the right technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent can help Reston, Virginia businesses to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
At-home employees commonly use their personal computers and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of data security solutions consultants can assist you to design, deploy and manage a compliant security solution that protects vital information resources in networks that include an at-home workforce.
Firewalls allow companies to create a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile users, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices permit you to configure and control different access rights to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both new and older firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall configuration and support expertise.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the various devices used by at-home workers and either reject or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new threats on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the targeted device from the network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight ASM software agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for remote workers.
Progent's Duo authentication Managed Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this second form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.
Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all types of outside and internal security threats for a network that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by data security professionals with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your company to evaluate your operations and governance policies and assess your IT architecture to enable you to design top-level security for your telecommuters.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To read or download a white paper describing critical things to focus on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
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