Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on network architecture, security, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Akron organization to pick the appropriate tools and follow best practices in building and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers top value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand guidance for helping you past occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent can help Akron, Ohio companies to with any aspect of creating a high-performing telecommuting environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Call Desk augmentation, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their own computing devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security support consultants can help you to plan, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in environments that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users as well as by at-home workers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks become increasingly complex. Progent supports both new and legacy security devices from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall support services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the various devices utilized by telecommuters and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is installed on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and using advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify new threats on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run remote, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be managed by network security professionals with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your company to evaluate your processes and governance policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to enable you to design top-level security for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper describing key areas to concentrate on for securing an IT environment that incorporates work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining an efficient telecommuter solution for your Akron, Ohio business, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.