Expanding your remote workforce can have a major effect on network architecture, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Boston organization to pick the appropriate tools and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns top business value. Progent can provide services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you past challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.

Progent can help Boston, Massachusetts businesses to succeed with any aspect of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly use their personal devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of cybersecurity support consultants can assist your business to plan, implement and maintain an effective security solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users as well as by telecommuters, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to configure and control appropriate permissions to different classes of users and to scale your network and modify your security profile as your company evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and older security appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, see firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management for TeleworkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers utilized by teleworkers and either reject or identify and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is installed on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the targeted endpoint from the network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for remote workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all types of external and internal security threats for a network that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run online, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be managed by network security professionals with advanced certifications including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to evaluate your procedures and policies and assess your IT infrastructure to enable you to design top-level protection for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you expose, rank, fix, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests 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 cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about key things to focus on for securing an IT environment that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Boston, Massachusetts organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.