Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a significant impact on network architecture, security, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Boston organization to select the appropriate tools and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past occasional technical roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Boston, Massachusetts companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-performing work-from-home environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk services, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Security for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly use their personal devices and usually work in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of IT security solutions experts can assist your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow companies to create a network that can be securely utilized by local users as well as by telecommuters, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and the public. Modern firewall devices allow you to assign and manage different permissions to different classes of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and legacy firewall appliances from all leading vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, see firewall integration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring for TeleworkersRemote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the disparate devices utilized by telecommuters and either block or identify and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the impacted endpoint from the network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoints remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for telecommuters.

Two-factor Authentication Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are on a device that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all classes of external and internal security threats for a network that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and economically uncovering a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your network infrastructure to enable you to implement top-level security for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To view or download a white paper describing key areas to focus on for protecting an IT environment that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Boston, Massachusetts organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.