Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major effect on IT infrastructure, security, and corporate culture. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Anaheim organization to pick the right technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top value. Progent can provide services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you over occasional IT roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Anaheim, California companies to with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Call Desk services, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Setting up the network infrastructure required to support a remote workforce can be particularly challenging if you have to manage a mix of personal hardware like PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from different vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background providing remote help for both legacy as well as current technologies in remote office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for making essential upgrades. Services offered by Progent to help your company to implement a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:
VoIP Solutions for Remote Workers
Extending the business phone environment to accommodate teleworkers is vital to supporting a productive work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-centric IP voice products are used by SMBs to support teleworkers. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's current or older products for VoIP management. Progent can help businesses of all sizes to design or tune a remote IP voice service that provides the flexibility, transparency and security needed for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide advanced support to help organizations tune their current Cisco VoIP environments to handle an expanding remote workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A wide range of video conferencing products from major technology companies support online discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and content sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many organizations use multiple conferencing products to accommodate their various partners and clients. Progent can assist you to maintain your current conferencing environment and enhance the productivity of your at-home workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for Remote Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office families, offering a rich environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user experience for exchanging information across a corporate network and on a broad range of endpoints. Progent has provided online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can assist your company to tune these critical collaboration platforms to optimize the productivity of your at-home workers.
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 supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, audio/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 Azure Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of features. For additional information about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, see planning and deployment expertise for Microsoft Teams.
SharePoint uses web entities to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven delivery of data, workflow, and utilities for looking through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint permits you to create protected portals that permits at-home workforce to view and edit consolidated corporate intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts. For details about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, visit SharePoint integration and application 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 expertise, see integration expertise for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can access them securely via a web browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows home workers to co-edit files. Edits made offline are automatically uploaded when you go back online. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for OneDrive, go to Microsoft Onedrive integration consulting.
Cloud Integration for Teleworkers
Progent can provide affordable remote support for helping businesses to create, maintain and repair cohesive network architectures that incorporate internal data centers, telecommuters, branch offices, plus cloud resources. Progent offers expertise for all types of cloud service such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Progent can help remote workers resolve issues with public cloud access, identity, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a leading family of cloud services that enables you to utilize infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Azure includes more than 100 cloud-based services including hosting for Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure Active Directory, and design data backup and restore systems with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create secure access to Azure for telecommuters by configuring and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN tunnels. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting.
Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's growing family of business productivity applications and cloud-based services offered on a subscription basis. Microsoft apps and services are marketed in a selection of plans intended for users ranging from students and small offices to major corporations. Progent can provide fast and easy online access to experts knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible endpoints based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can help you to assess the various subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 applications for your at-home workers in a way that delivers top business value. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365, refer to Microsoft 365 consulting support.
Exchange Online is among the most widely used cloud-based applications in the Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower spending for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and other benefits inherent with public clouds. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to run smoothly with local Exchange environments, enabling customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's certified Exchange experts are available for occasional help to get you past tough technical bottlenecks and can also provide comprehensive project management services to ensure your at-home workers have easy and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment. For details Progent's expertise for Exchange Online, go to Exchange Online integration and support expertise.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud arena and is the world's top provider of cloud services. Progent offers rapid and economical online contact with cloud connectivity experts who can assist your organization to plan, deploy, manage, and debug hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other popular cloud platforms such as Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help you to create a high-uptime network architecture to make sure your users have a productive computing experience regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. To find out about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS consulting support.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a popular collection of cloud computing services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can assist your organization to expand your current IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's DBA consultants can help you make your mission-critical apps cloud friendly so your remote workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can help your business to set up virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, design a cost-effective storage solution with Google Cloud Storage, and streamline access control for telecommuters with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent's experts can also help your business to use GCP's unified management tools to control and track your Google Cloud ecosystem. For details, go to Google Cloud Platform integration support.
Help Desk Services for Telecommuters
A sudden, company-wide transition to a telecommuter business model, which might be the result of an epidemic or as an element of a disaster recovery/business continuity process, can overwhelm even a high-performing in-house Support Desk. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for businesses of any size to outsource or augment their Support Desk by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.
Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
At-home employees commonly utilize their personal computers and often operate in an unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity support experts can assist you to design, configure and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital information resources in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.
Firewalls allow companies to create a network environment that can be safely accessed by local users as well as by at-home workers, mobile users, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and control different access rights to different classes of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly complex. Progent works with both current and older firewall appliances from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support expertise, refer to firewall support expertise.
Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate computers used by an at-home workforce and either block or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the infected endpoint device from the network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is autonomous, endpoints stay protected even if they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, visit remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo MFA Managed Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this second form of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security attacks for a network that includes teleworkers. Progent can run remote, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your IT infrastructure to allow you to implement the highest level of security for your teleworkers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical things to concentrate on for protecting a network that includes telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection Solutions for At-Home Workers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and recovering vital data in order to prevent data loss and reduce recovery time and effort in case of storage system problems resulting from hardware issues, programming glitches, operator mistakes, cyber attack, or other causes. Reliable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to design and maintain in hybrid environments that combine in-house data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.
Unified Management for an At-Home Workforce
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. Endpoint Manager provides a centralized solution for protecting corporate data by controlling on-premises, mobile, and home-based endpoint devices.
Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting mobile devices and applications. Managed endpoint computers can be user owned or company owned. IT administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of telecommuters can utilize Intune to provision and validate applications on managed devices, push patches and certificates, configure rules for permission to access information and resources, manage passwords, create VPN connections, determine how telecommuters share data, establish threat defense, ensure security compliance, and erase corporate information from missing, stolen or decommissioned endpoint devices. Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS devices. To learn about Intune and how Progent can assist your company to use this platform to manage the endpoint computers of your teleworkers, see Intune remote device management consultants.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified Mobile Device Management product that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoints up to date and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for unified endpoint management plus VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery platform for authorization control, app management, and setup management of endpoints. Workspace ONE operates with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises deployment via a perpetual license. Top features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air deployment of new laptops, quick onboarding of new employees, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies management reporting and analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft apps and cloud services. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE mobile endpoint management expertise.
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