Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Broomfield company to select the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns top business value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Broomfield, Colorado companies to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk services, data security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Configuring the network infrastructure required to support a remote workforce can be particularly complicated if you have to manage a mix of worker-owned hardware like desktop computers and notebooks, routers, and wireless APs from different vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing online support for both outdated and modern IT products in virtual office venues enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to expertise for implement essential updates. Support services available from Progent to assist you to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:

  • VPN technology makes it possible to establish a safe connection for authenticated at-home employees to use IT assets situated at your company data center or in the cloud. Progent's consultants can help your company to deploy and manage VPN connections between your at-home workforce and your various network resources by providing remote VPN configuration consulting. For businesses using Cisco's ASA security appliances, Progent's Cisco-certified ASA experts can assist your telecommuters to utilize Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software for secure VPN connections for a wide selection of endpoint devices including Microsoft Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platforms allow a telecommuter to view and use a data center computer's desktop. This gives network managers significant control over the digital ecosystem of at-home employees and offers remote users a familiar work experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop support and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers attach home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, local wireless networks, and firewalls. Progent can provide expert remote consulting for integrating routers from a range of vendors. See router integration support from Cisco-certified consultants.
  • Home Wireless networks, often supporting an entire household and guests, are commonly utilized by telecommuters to connect to their Internet router for work. This can create throughput and security issues. Progent can help you to resolve these problems by delivering expertise like Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco-certified Meraki WiFi deployment expertise, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless AP integration help.
  • Internet access methods affect the performance and availability of connections between telecommuters and the company network. Business-critical processes may require backup Internet access in case the primary connection breaks. Progent can provide expertise for picking service providers, picking appropriate bandwidth and data volume packages, and configuring fault-tolerant Internet connections. Refer to Internet access solutions.

IP Voice Integration for Teleworkers
Expanding the corporate phone environment to accommodate telecommuters is vital to supporting an effective work-at-home solution. A broad range of cloud-based VoIP platforms are used by SMBs to server remote users. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's modern or older platforms for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or tune a telecommuter IP voice environment that delivers the flexibility, convenience and security needed for telecommuters. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide advanced support to assist businesses optimize their current Cisco IP voice systems to handle a growing at-home workforce.

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM or CUCM) delivers high-end telephony features to devices such as VoIP phones, media processing products, VoIP gateways, and mixed media applications used across the network. CUCM manages other combined media services such as messaging, video conferencing, and team collaboration networks. For details about Progent's Cisco Unified CM or CUCM expertise, see CUCM expertise.
  • Cisco CallManager is Cisco's legacy call-processing agent and has been superseded by CUCM. Progent can help you to support your existing CallManager deployment or migrate efficiently to Cisco's current IP telephony solutions. For details about Progent's support services for Cisco CallManager and Cisco's other older IP voice platforms, refer to CallManager consulting services.
  • Cisco IP Gateways provide connectivity with PSTN networks and with clients working beyond the corporate perimeter like at-home workers. Progent can provide consulting expertise for Cisco's legacy IP gateways such as the UC520, UC540 and UC560 product lines and for current Cisco SIP gateways. See Cisco SIP gateway configuration expertise.
  • Other VoIP Platforms supported by Progent include Vonage, RingCentral and 8x8. Progent can assist you to update your wide area network infrastructure to support these VoIP solutions and provide as-needed integration and troubleshooting services.

Voice/Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A broad range of video conferencing products from leading technology companies support virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many companies utilize multiple conferencing products to meet the needs of their different partners and customers. Progent can assist you to maintain your existing voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the experience of your at-home workforce.

  • Skype for Business is Microsoft's popular communications platform that supports presence, IM, voice and video conferencing plus the seamless integration of these capabilities within Office desktop and Microsoft 365 applications including PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook. Progent can provide the skills of Microsoft-certified specialists who can assist you to configure and maintain Skype for Business client software to support your at-home employees. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Skype for Business, visit Skype for Business consulting experts.
  • FaceTime is Apple's multiuser video calling platform for iOS and Mac devices. FaceTime runs over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connections. Current editions of FaceTime allow as many as 32 simultaneous users for video sessions. To learn more about Progent's consulting services for Apple FaceTime, see Progent's FaceTime configuration expertise.
  • Webex Meeting Center supports online conferencing for most desktop or mobile devices. Offered via Cisco's Webex Cloud platform, Webex capabilities include sharing specific content or screens, presentations that embed rich media including Microsoft PowerPoint, session capture, plus revision and playback for training. For details about Progent's support expertise for Webex as well as for additional video conferencing solutions from Cisco, see Progent's Webex Meeting Center support services.
  • Teams is Microsoft's next-generation replacement for Skype for Business. Teams provides a hub for conversations, contacts, and content with features that include video conferencing, threaded chat, plus file sharing. For details about Progent's support expertise for Microsoft Teams as well as for additional Microsoft 365 apps, see Progent's Microsoft Teams consulting services.
  • Other Voice/Video Conferencing Platforms supported by Progent include Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Zoom, and Slack. Progent can provide configuration and troubleshooting expertise for these products and help your business to optimize your WAN infrastructure to host them.

Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for Telecommuters
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office families, providing a powerful environment of applications that create a cohesive user interface for sharing information throughout multiple sites and on a broad selection of endpoint devices. Progent has provided online consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange since their original releases and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.

Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.

Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium Solutions Experts for At-Home WorkersMicrosoft Teams works with Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration. Designed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can support chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (formerly called Azure Active Directory) for delivering its full range of features. To learn more about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, see solution design and deployment expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.

SharePoint Server Deployment Experts for At-Home WorkersSharePoint utilizes web sites to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing by offering policy-based access to data, business processes, and utilities for looking through company-wide business data. SharePoint enables you to build protected web portals that enables remote workers to view and update consolidated corporate intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. To learn about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, visit SharePoint integration and application development consulting.

Exchange Configuration Consultants for Remote WorkersExchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To learn about Progent's Exchange expertise, visit integration expertise for Microsoft Exchange.

Microsoft Onedrive Deployment Experts for At-Home WorkersOneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud-based storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can save files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers can retrieve them securely through a web browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows home workers to co-author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically synced when you reconnect to the Internet. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, visit Microsoft Onedrive integration experts.

Public Cloud Integration Services for Telecommuters
Progent can provide fast and affordable remote assistance for enabling businesses to build, manage and repair cohesive network architectures that combine physical data centers, at-home workers, branch offices, and cloud services. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all modes of cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers resolve problems with public cloud access, authentication, and security.

Azure Integration for TeleworkersMicrosoft Azure is a leading family of public cloud services that allows you to utilize infrastructure, virtual servers, and key apps hosted on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure features over 100 services services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-based VMs, scalable cloud storage, messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist you to deploy VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure Active Directory, and design data backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you create secure access to Azure services for at-home workers by setting up and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting.

Microsoft 365 Integration for Remote WorkersMicrosoft 365, previously branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular family of client productivity applications and cloud-based services available by subscription. Office applications and services are marketed in a selection of bundles designed for customers ranging from individuals and households to large corporations. Progent can provide quick and affordable online contact with consultants familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible clients based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent can help you to assess the various subscription plans available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your remote workers to achieve maximum business value. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 consulting services.

Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Integration for TelecommutersExchange Online is among the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product suite. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower spending for data center infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and additional advantages inherent with public clouds. Microsoft has designed Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to run smoothly with local deployments of Exchange, enabling you to build hybrid information systems. Progent's Exchange experts can provide occasional assistance to guide you past tough technical bottlenecks and can also provide end-to-end project management outsourcing to ensure your at-home workers have easy and safe access to your Exchange Online environment. For details Progent's support services for Exchange Online, see Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting consulting.

Amazon AWS Integration for At-Home WorkersAmazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing market and is the world's top provider of cloud services. Progent can provide quick and economical online access to cloud integration consultants who can help your business to design, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to help your company to create a high-availability network model to make sure your users have a consistent computing experience whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the move. To learn about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, visit Amazon AWS consulting services.

Google Cloud Platform Integration Services for TelecommutersGoogle Cloud (GCP) is a popular set of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can assist your organization to extend your current IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database experts can help you make your critical applications cloud ready so your remote workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud Platform services. Progent can help your business to deploy VMs on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage solution with GCP Storage, and streamline access management for teleworkers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also assist your business to use GCP's unified management tools to control and track your Google Cloud ecosystem. For details, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration services.

Help Desk Support for Remote Workers
An emergency, organization-wide transition to a from-home workforce, which might be the result of an epidemic or as an element of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed internal Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk services allow businesses to outsource or augment their Support Desk with Progent's online Technical Response Center team.

  • Progent's Standard Call Center services leverage Progent's extensive team of remote IT support specialists combined with world-class trouble ticketing and follow-up software to provide an affordable, state-of-the-art Call Desk. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services provide a comprehensive solution that addresses all facets of remote Level 1 PC technical support from service requests through ticket creation, desktop sharing, problem resolution, and reporting. A web-based User's Service Portal enables at-home employees to check or edit their active tickets, enter details, and append screen captures and relevant files. Technical support services are provided at a substantial discount off Progent's ordinary Level 1 desktop support charges, and Progent makes available the option of rapid hand-off to Level 2 and Level 3 support experts to resolve complex problems. To find out more, refer to Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services for small and mid-size businesses.
  • Progent's Help Desk Supplemental Service allows your company to supplement your existing Call Desk team by sharing responsibilities for Help Desk Call Center support services seamlessly between your in-house support staff and Progent's extensive pool of PC support technicians and subject matter specialists. Progent's shared Call Desk service is based on a collective support model based on the leading professional services automation (PSA) tool for managing service requests and ticketing, establishing responsibility, tracking progress, and producing reports. To find out how Progent's Call Center Augmentation Services can help your company to provide best-in-class technical support to your at-home employees, go to Progent's Support Desk augmentation Services.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home staff members commonly utilize their personal computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of IT security support consultants can assist your business to design, configure and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical information resources in environments that include an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by telecommuters, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to different classes of users and to scale your network and modify your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow more complex. Progent works with both new and legacy security appliances from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration expertise, go to firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for TelecommutersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by at-home workers and either reject or identify and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art AI technology from SentinelOne to detect new threats at inception. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the infected endpoint from the network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo authentication Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this second form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your network to all types of external and internal security attacks for an environment that includes teleworkers. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis scanning for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be provided by data security experts with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your company to evaluate your workflows and policies and review your network infrastructure to allow you to implement top-level security for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for securing a network that includes telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Data Protection for At-Home Workers
Data Protection involves saving and restoring critical information in order to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time in the event of storage problems resulting from hardware breakdowns, programming hiccups, operator mistakes, cyber attack, or any other reason. Reliable data protection strategies can be particularly challenging to design and maintain in hybrid networks that combine private data centers, public clouds, and an at-home workforce.

  • Backup/Restore solutions for an at-home workforce must address diverse types of user-owned endpoint devices. Progent offers fast online access to experts familiar with a wide array of products for protection Windows, Apple Mac and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktop computers as well as notebooks, iPads and smartphones. Popular backup/restore solutions maintained by Progent's data protection consultants include Barracuda Backup, Microsoft Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, Acronis Backup and Recovery, Retrospect, and Time Machine. To protect data spread across a wide area network, Progent offers ProSight Data Protection Services, a managed backup/recovery service that utilizes cloud-based storage and features fine-grained restore and centralized management capabilities.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity (DR/BC) strategies typically anticipate scenarios that call for a temporary switch to a work-at-home environment. Progent's senior disaster recovery preparedness consultants and business continuity planning consultants can help you to develop, document and test a DR/BC strategy that addresses the process of switching to an at-home workforce.

Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management products under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager offers a centralized platform for protecting corporate information by managing onsite, mobile, and home-based endpoints.

Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing remote computers and applications. Remote endpoint computers can be user owned or business owned. IT admins managing the enrolled endpoint devices of teleworkers can use Intune to provision and authenticate applications on devices, push updates and certificates, set up rules for accessing information and networks, set passwords, establish VPN connections, control how telecommuters share information, establish threat protection, ensure security compliance, and erase sensitive data from missing, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune can be used with iOS/iPadOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X devices. To learn about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can help your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the devices of your teleworkers, visit Intune teleworker device management expertise.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich unified MDM product that helps network managers to keep offsite endpoint devices current and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint management combined with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for authorization control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE runs with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-premises product via a perpetual license. Top features of Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air provisioning of new laptops, immediate onboarding of new employees, policy set up and enforcement for all classes of endpoints, aggregated reporting and analytics, an email encryption gateway, and integration with Microsoft applications and cloud products. For details about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE remote device management consultants.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Broomfield, Colorado business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.