Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a major impact on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting SMBs to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Charleston organization to pick the right tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent can help Charleston, South Carolina organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
At-home workers typically utilize their personal computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security support experts can help you to plan, configure and manage an effective security solution that guards vital information assets in environments that incorporate remote workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be securely utilized by local users as well as by at-home workers, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and control appropriate access rights to various groups of users and to expand your IT network and adjust your security as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older firewall devices from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall integration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management Services for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate devices utilized by telecommuters and either reject or identify and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is put on each protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats before they can spread. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight ASM, visit remote endpoint monitoring for telecommuters.

Two-factor Authentication Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

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 incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security analysis software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your company to evaluate your operations and governance policies and review your WAN infrastructure to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

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

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining an efficient work-from-home environment for your Charleston, South Carolina business, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.