Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Alpharetta organization to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you past challenging technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can help Alpharetta, Georgia organizations to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Integrating the physical and software infrastructure needed for an at-home work environment can be particularly complicated if you have to manage a combination of worker-owned equipment such as PCs and laptops, routers, and wireless appliances from various vendors and with a mix of operating systems and firmware releases. Progent's experience delivering remote help for both legacy and modern IT products in virtual office venues allows you to make cost-effective use of your available infrastructure and provides you with fast access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary updates. Services available from Progent to assist your company to create a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:
IP Voice Solutions for an At-Home Workforce
Expanding the company phone environment to include telecommuters is critical to maintaining an effective work-at-home solution. A broad range of cloud-based digital PBX platforms are used by SMBs to support teleworkers. Many enterprises rely on Cisco's current or legacy platforms for VoIP management. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or maintain a telecommuter IP voice service that provides the flexibility, transparency and protection required for telecommuters. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice experts offer high-level support to help organizations tune their existing Cisco IP voice systems to handle a growing at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A broad selection of voice/video conferencing platforms from major technology companies enable virtual meetings, video conferencing, chat sessions, and screen sharing for both onsite users and teleworkers. Many organizations use a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and customers. Progent can help you to manage your existing conferencing ecosystem and optimize the engagement of your remote employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Teleworkers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful ecosystem of productivity apps that create a consistent user experience for exchanging information across a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their initial releases and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration products to optimize the productivity of your at-home workers.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to allow collaboration and information delivery by offering policy-based delivery of content, business processes, and utilities for looking through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to create secure portals that enables remote workforce to view and update aggregated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts. To find out about Progent's SharePoint expertise, see SharePoint configuration and development expertise.
Exchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To find out about Progent's Exchange consulting services, go to planning and configuration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft's shared cloud storage service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote users can save files to OneDrive, and co-workers anywhere can retrieve them securely through a browser. Included with Office and Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows at-home employees to jointly author files. Revisions made offline are uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. To learn about Progent's support services for Microsoft OneDrive, go to Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.
Cloud Integration Services for Telecommuters
Progent can provide affordable online support for enabling organizations to create, manage and repair cohesive hybrid network architectures that include internal data centers, at-home workers, branches, and cloud services. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all modes of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Progent can help remote workers resolve issues with cloud connectivity, identity, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a leading platform for public cloud services that allows you to use infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure features more than one hundred services services including hosting for Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can help you to set up virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure Active Directory, and plan data backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create protected connections to Azure services for at-home workers by configuring and debugging firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. For information about Progent's expertise for Azure, refer to Azure consulting.
Microsoft 365, previously branded Office 365, is Microsoft's growing family of business productivity applications and cloud-based services available by subscription. Office applications and services are marketed in a selection of bundles intended for customers ranging from individuals and small offices to large enterprises. Progent offers fast and easy online contact with experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible client devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can help your business to evaluate the numerous subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 applications for your teleworkers to achieve maximum business value. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365, refer to Microsoft 365 integration expertise.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is among the most popular applications in the Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower costs for physical infrastructure, simplified management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional advantages inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to run transparently with local deployments of Exchange, allowing you to create hybrid networks. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can provide occasional assistance to get you through tough IT roadblocks and also offer comprehensive project management services to make sure your at-home workers have convenient and secure access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, see Exchange Online configuration and support expertise.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trailblazer in the public cloud arena and is the world's biggest provider of cloud-based services. Progent offers fast and affordable online contact with cloud connectivity consultants who can help your organization to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with local data centers and with other public clouds like Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist you to create a high-uptime network model to make sure your employees have a consistent computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, from home, or on the road. For details about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS integration services.
Google Cloud Platform is a leading suite of cloud computing services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can help you to extend your current IT assets with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA consultants can show you how to make your key applications cloud ready so your remote workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent can assist your business to deploy VMs on GCP Compute Engine, design an efficient storage system with GCP Storage, and streamline identity management for teleworkers with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent can also help your organization to use GCP's unified management tools to control and track your Google Cloud environment. For information, see Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration expertise.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Telecommuters
A fast, enterprise-wide switchover to a from-home business model, which could be the result of an epidemic or as an element of a disaster recovery/business continuity process, can overstretch even the most efficient internal Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services allow businesses of any size to outsource or supplement their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's online Technical Response Center (TRC) services.
Security for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly use their personal devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of data security solutions consultants can assist you to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that include an at-home workforce.
Firewalls enable you to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage appropriate access rights to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as network attacks become more sophisticated. Progent works with both current and older firewall appliances from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support expertise, refer to firewall support services.
Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate devices utilized by telecommuters and either reject or identify and mitigate modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats at inception. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the infected endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is autonomous, endpoints remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo authentication Managed Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all classes of external and local security attacks for an environment that incorporates remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated security analysis scanning for quickly and economically uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by data security experts with advanced certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your business to evaluate your procedures and governance policies and assess your network architecture to allow you to implement top-level security for your at-home workers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper about key areas to concentrate on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection Solutions for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection involves backing up and recovering vital information in order to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time in the event of storage system problems resulting from hardware issues, software hiccups, operator mistakes, cyber attack, or any other reason. Reliable data protection strategies can be particularly difficult to architect and maintain in hybrid environments that incorporate local data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.
Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management products under the title Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud-based management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Microsoft Endpoint Manager offers a unified platform for safeguarding critical data by managing local, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and protecting off-premises computers and software. Managed endpoint devices can be personally owned or business owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint devices of at-home workers can use Intune to deploy and authenticate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, set up policies for permission to access information and resources, set passwords, establish VPN connections, control how telecommuters share information, establish threat defense, verify security compliance, and delete corporate information from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X devices. To find out about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist your company to use this platform to administer the devices of your telecommuters, refer to Intune mobile device management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich unified MDM platform that helps network administrators to keep offsite endpoints current and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for unified endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for identity control, application management, and setup management of endpoints. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises product via a one-time purchase. Top capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air provisioning of new notebooks, quick onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and performance analytics, an email encryption gateway, and integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based products. To learn about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE remote device management expertise.
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