Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience helping businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, administer, tune, and debug IT networks that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Boise organization to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns top business value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand expertise for helping you over challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can help Boise, Idaho organizations to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Call Desk services, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Security for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their own computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security solutions experts can assist you to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in networks that incorporate remote workers.
Firewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by at-home workers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to configure and control different access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and modify your security as your business evolves and as network attacks become increasingly complex. Progent supports both new and older firewall devices from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall configuration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate devices used by telecommuters and either block or spot and respond to modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to identify new attacks before they can spread. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to quarantine the threat. Since the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.
Security Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for a network that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can deploy online, automated security inventory scanning for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by data security professionals with advanced credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your company to audit your processes and governance policies and review your network architecture to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your teleworkers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest 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 identify, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To read or download a white paper describing critical areas to focus on for protecting a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
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