Charleston Remote Workforce Connectivity Consulting Partner

Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant effect on network architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Charleston company to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to best practices in building and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you past occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent can help Charleston, South Carolina organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Cybersecurity for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their personal computers and usually operate in a poorly secured physical space. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of IT security support consultants can assist you to plan, implement and manage an effective security solution that guards critical information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce.

Firewalls enable you to create a network that can be securely utilized by local users as well as by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and the public. Modern firewall devices permit you to assign and control appropriate permissions to different classes of users and to scale your network and adjust your security as your business evolves and as network attacks become more sophisticated. Progent supports both new and older security appliances from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall integration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by remote workers and either block or spot and mitigate the latest cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is installed on every secured endpoint, watching all activity and using advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats at inception. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the impacted endpoint from the network to quarantine the threat. Since the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoint devices remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo MFA Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for an environment that incorporates remote workers. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for quickly and affordably uncovering a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be provided by security experts with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your business to audit your operations and policies and review your IT infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can expose, rank, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform thorough 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 help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

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

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To contact Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Charleston, South Carolina business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.