Expanding your remote workforce can have a major impact on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Albany organization to select the right tools and adhere to best practices in building and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you past challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Albany, New York businesses to with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically use their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security solutions experts can help your business to design, deploy and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in networks that incorporate remote workers.
Firewalls enable companies to create a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users as well as by at-home workers, mobile users, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices allow you to configure and control different access rights to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats become more complex. Progent supports both new and legacy firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, refer to firewall support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the disparate computers utilized by teleworkers and either block or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to detect new attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the targeted device from the network to quarantine the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.
Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all types of outside and internal security attacks for an environment that includes at-home workers. Progent can run remote, automated security inventory software for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be managed by network security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your processes and governance policies and review your network architecture to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your remote workers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.
Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To view or download a white paper describing critical things to focus on for protecting 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 Expertise
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