Expanding your remote workforce can have a major effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Augusta-Richmond County organization to select the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia businesses to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning telecommuting environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk augmentation, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home workers typically utilize their own computing devices and often operate in an unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of IT security solutions experts can help you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that incorporate remote workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to build a network environment that can be safely accessed by local users and by an at-home workforce, mobile users, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances allow you to configure and control appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow more complex. Progent supports both current and older security appliances from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support services, visit firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for TeleworkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the various devices utilized by at-home workers and either block or identify and mitigate the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint agent is put on every secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new attacks on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the targeted endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices remain secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for an environment that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and economically detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be provided by data security professionals with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your company to evaluate your operations and governance policies and review your WAN infrastructure to enable you to design top-level security for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you expose, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

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

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Augusta-Richmond County, Georgia company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.