Expanding your at-home workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Barueri-Alphaville company to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers top value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand expertise for helping you over occasional technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Barueri-Alphaville, São Paulo businesses to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-functioning remote work environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Help Desk services, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
At-home workers typically utilize their personal computers and often operate in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of data security solutions consultants can assist you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by teleworkers, mobile users, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to configure and control different access rights to different classes of users and to expand your IT network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both new and legacy security appliances from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, refer to firewall configuration and support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring Services for TeleworkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the various devices used by an at-home workforce and either reject or identify and mitigate the latest cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every protected endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to quarantine the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, visit remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log 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 uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

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 includes remote workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security analysis software for rapidly and economically uncovering a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be provided by security professionals with advanced credentials including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your procedures and governance policies and review your IT architecture to enable you to design the highest level of security for your remote workers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated threat assessment of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you expose, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment services based on 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 key areas to focus on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Barueri-Alphaville, São Paulo company, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.