Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Akron company to pick the right technologies and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers top value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand expertise for getting you over occasional technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Akron, Ohio organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Security for Teleworkers
At-home workers commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often work in an unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security support experts can help your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical information assets in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to create a network environment that can be safely accessed by local users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to assign and manage appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to scale your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and older security appliances from all major manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate devices utilized by teleworkers and either block or identify and respond to modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is installed on every secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the impacted endpoint from the corporate network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoints remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of external and internal security attacks for a network that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and economically detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by network security experts with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to evaluate your workflows and policies and assess your WAN architecture to enable you to design top-level protection for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated threat assessment of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. 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 delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To view or download a white paper about key areas to focus on for securing a network that includes telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Akron, Ohio business, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.