Boise Teleworkers Connectivity Advisor

Expanding your at-home workforce may have a major effect on network architecture, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Boise organization to select the appropriate tools and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and returns top value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Boise, Idaho organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Security for Telecommuters
At-home workers typically use their personal computers and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of data security support experts can assist you to plan, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewalls enable you to build a network environment that can be securely utilized by local users and by teleworkers, mobile employees, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage different permissions to different groups of users and to expand your network and modify your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and legacy firewall appliances from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration services, refer to firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers used by remote workers and either block or spot and respond to modern threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the targeted endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo MFA services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all types of external and local security attacks for an environment that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security assessment experts, which can be provided by security professionals with advanced credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your workflows and governance policies and assess your IT architecture to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

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

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing an efficient telecommuter solution for your Boise, Idaho company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.