Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Anaheim organization to pick the right tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you over occasional technical roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Anaheim, California companies to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Configuring the network infrastructure required to support an at-home workforce can be particularly challenging if you must manage a mix of worker-owned hardware like PCs and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi APs from different manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's background delivering online support for both legacy as well as current IT products in virtual office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to expertise for making essential updates. Services available from Progent to assist you to implement a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
IP Voice Solutions for Teleworkers
Expanding the company phone environment to include telecommuters is vital to supporting a productive work-at-home solution. A broad range of cloud-based digital PBX products are used by small and mid-size businesses to server remote users. Many larger organizations rely on Cisco's current or older products for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or tune a remote IP voice service that delivers the versatility, transparency and protection required for at-home workers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants can provide high-level support to help organizations optimize their current Cisco VoIP environments to support an expanding at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for At-Home Workers
A broad range of voice/video conferencing platforms from major technology companies support virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both local workers and teleworkers. Many companies utilize a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their different partners and clients. Progent can help you to manage your existing conferencing ecosystem and optimize the engagement of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful ecosystem of applications that create a consistent user experience for exchanging information throughout multiple sites and on a wide range of endpoints. Progent has provided online consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can assist your company to configure these critical collaboration products to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.
Microsoft Teams works with Microsoft 365 and integrates with third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, video meetings with screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and application sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its full range of capabilities. For additional information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, visit solution design and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web sites to facilitate collaboration and information sharing by offering policy-driven delivery of data, business processes, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint enables you to create secure portals that allows remote workforce to view and edit consolidated corporate intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). For information about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, go to SharePoint integration 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 learn about Progent's Exchange support services, go to planning and configuration consulting for Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can share them securely via a browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables remote employees to co-author files. Edits made offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For information about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, go to Onedrive integration experts.
Public Cloud Integration for Remote Workers
Progent can provide fast and affordable remote assistance for helping organizations to build, manage and troubleshoot cohesive network architectures that incorporate physical data centers, remote workers, branches, plus cloud resources. Progent can provide top-tier consultant for all modes of public cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service. Progent can help at-home workers fix problems with cloud access, authentication, and security.
Azure is a popular platform for public cloud services that allows you to utilize IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and key applications running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Microsoft Azure features over 100 services services including hosting for Windows and Linux-based VMs, on-demand cloud storage, email and messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can help you to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure AD, and design backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create protected access to Azure for telecommuters by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. For information about Progent's expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting.
Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of business productivity applications and cloud-based services available on a subscription basis. Office apps and cloud services are provided in a variety of bundles intended for customers ranging from students and small offices to large corporations. Progent can provide quick and affordable online access to experts knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible clients based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can assist your business to assess the various subscription bundles offered with Microsoft 365 and deploy 365 applications for your at-home workers to achieve maximum business value. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft 365, visit Microsoft 365 consulting services.
Exchange Online is one of the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product suite. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the benefits of reduced spending for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and additional advantages inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to operate smoothly with local deployments of Exchange, enabling you to build hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's Exchange experts can provide occasional assistance to guide you past tough IT bottlenecks and can also provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your at-home workers have convenient and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment. For information Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, see Exchange Online configuration and support expertise.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's biggest source of cloud services. Progent can provide rapid and economical online access to cloud connectivity experts who can help your business to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds such as Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help you to build a high-uptime network architecture so your users have a consistent computing experience whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, at home, or on the move. For details about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, visit Amazon AWS integration expertise.
Google Cloud is a popular suite of cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist your business to expand your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database experts can show you how to make your critical apps cloud ready so your telecommuters can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent's consultants can assist you to set up virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage solution with GCP Storage services, and streamline identity control for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also help you to utilize GCP's unified management technology to control and track your GCP environment. For details, go to Google Cloud Platform consulting services.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Telecommuters
A fast, organization-wide switchover to a from-home workforce, which might be the result of an epidemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity plan, can overstretch even a high-performing internal Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk services make it possible for organizations to outsource or supplement their Call Desk with Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.
Security for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically use their own devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran team of cybersecurity solutions consultants can help your business to design, deploy and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects critical information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.
Firewalls allow companies to build a network environment that can be securely accessed by on-premises users as well as by at-home workers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and control appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as network attacks become increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both new and older security appliances from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, refer to firewall integration and support expertise.
Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate computers utilized by telecommuters and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and using advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify new threats on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the targeted endpoint device from the corporate network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoint devices 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 an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo MFA Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.
Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all types of outside and internal security attacks for a network that includes telecommuters. Progent can run remote, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by data security experts with advanced credentials such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your processes and policies and assess your IT architecture to enable you to implement top-level security for your telecommuters.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper describing critical areas to concentrate on for protecting an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection for Teleworkers
The field of Data Protection involves saving and restoring vital data in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time in case of storage system failures resulting from hardware breakdowns, programming glitches, user mistakes, malware, or other causes. Dependable data protection strategies can be particularly challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid networks that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management platforms under the title Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing onsite computers. Endpoint Manager offers a centralized environment for protecting corporate data by controlling local, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and securing off-premises computers and software. Managed endpoint computers can be user owned or company owned. Network admins managing the endpoint computers of at-home workers can utilize Intune to provision and authenticate applications on managed devices, push patches and certificates, set up policies for permission to access information and networks, set passwords, establish VPN connections, determine how telecommuters share information, establish threat protection, ensure security compliance, and delete corporate data from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Microsoft Intune works with iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. For details about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to administer the devices of your at-home workers, refer to Intune mobile device management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform that helps network managers to keep off-premises endpoint devices current and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint management along with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for access control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises product through a perpetual license. Key capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of new laptops, immediate onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all classes of devices, unifies reporting and analytics, an email encryption gateway, and seamless integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based services. To find out about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management expertise.
Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
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