Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major effect on network infrastructure, security, and corporate culture. Progent has two decades of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Charleston company to select the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and returns top value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you over occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.
Progent can assist Charleston, South Carolina businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Call Desk outsourcing, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.
Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the network infrastructure needed to support an at-home work environment can be particularly complicated if you have to manage a mix of personal equipment like desktop computers and laptops, routers, and wireless APs from different vendors and with a mix of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's experience delivering online support for both legacy as well as modern technologies in remote office venues enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers fast access to expertise for implement essential updates. Support services available from Progent to help you to implement a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
IP Voice Solutions for At-Home Workers
Expanding the company phone environment to accommodate telecommuters is vital to supporting a productive work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-centric IP voice platforms are used by small and mid-size businesses to server telecommuters. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's current or legacy platforms for VoIP solutions. Progent can help organizations of any size to plan or tune a remote IP voice environment that delivers the flexibility, convenience and protection required for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice experts offer high-level support to help organizations optimize their current Cisco VoIP environments to handle an expanding remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for an At-Home Workforce
A wide range of video conferencing platforms from leading vendors enable virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat, and screen sharing for both local users and telecommuters. Many companies utilize multiple conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and customers. Progent's communications experts can assist your organization to maintain your existing conferencing environment and optimize the productivity of your at-home workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Telecommuters
Microsoft's collaboration products are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a rich environment of productivity apps that create a cohesive user interface for exchanging information across a corporate network and on a wide selection of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered online consulting support for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can help businesses to deploy these flagship collaboration platforms to optimize the productivity of your at-home workers.
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 works on top of Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration and communication. Designed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can enable chat, audio/video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and application sharing. Teams is closely integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of features. For additional information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, visit planning and deployment consulting for Microsoft Teams.
SharePoint utilizes web entities to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven delivery of content, business processes, and tools for searching through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint enables you to create secure web portals that permits at-home workforce to view and update consolidated business intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. To find out about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, go to SharePoint configuration and development expertise.
Exchange 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. For information about Progent's Exchange support services, refer to integration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to OneDrive, and co-workers can retrieve them securely through a browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive allows at-home employees to co-edit files. Revisions created offline are uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For information about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, go to Onedrive configuration consulting.
Cloud Integration for Telecommuters
Progent can provide fast and affordable remote support for helping organizations to create, manage and troubleshoot cohesive hybrid network architectures that incorporate internal data centers, telecommuters, branches, plus public cloud resources. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all types of public cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service. Progent can help at-home workers fix issues with cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a leading family of cloud software and services that allows you to use infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Microsoft Azure includes more than one hundred 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 your organization to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure Active Directory, and plan data backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to establish secure access to Azure services for telecommuters by configuring and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Azure, visit Microsoft Azure consulting services.
Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's growing family of client productivity software and cloud services available by subscription. Office applications and cloud services are marketed in a selection of bundles intended for users ranging from students and small offices to major corporations. Progent can provide fast and easy online access to consultants familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can assist your business to evaluate the numerous subscription plans offered with Microsoft 365 and configure 365 applications for your at-home workers to achieve maximum business value. To find out about Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365, refer to Microsoft 365 integration services.
Exchange Online is one of the most widely used cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product suite. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower spending for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and additional advantages associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to operate transparently with on-premises Exchange environments, enabling customers to build hybrid networks. Progent's Exchange experts can provide occasional assistance to guide you through challenging technical bottlenecks and also offer end-to-end project management services to make sure your at-home workers have convenient and secure access to your Exchange Online environment. To learn Progent's expertise for Exchange Online, see Microsoft 365 Exchange Online configuration and support expertise.
Amazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's leading source of cloud-based services. Progent offers quick and economical online access to cloud integration experts who can assist your organization to design, implement, manage, and debug hybrid IT networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds such as Microsoft Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help your company to build a high-availability network model so your employees have a consistent computing experience whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, at home, or on the road. For details about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, refer to Amazon AWS integration services.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a popular collection of cloud computing services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist your organization to scale your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can help you make your key applications cloud friendly so your telecommuters can benefit fully from Google Cloud Platform services. Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, design an efficient storage system with Google Cloud Storage, and simplify identity management for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also help you to utilize GCP's management technology to administer and track your GCP environment. For details, visit Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration services.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Remote Workers
An emergency, organization-wide transition to a teleworker workforce, which might be driven by a pandemic or as a component of a business continuity process, can overstretch even the most efficient in-house Call Desk. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for businesses to outsource or augment their Support Desk by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.
Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
At-home staff members typically use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity support consultants can help you to design, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital information assets in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.
Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be safely accessed by local users and by telecommuters, mobile employees, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and manage appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to expand your network and modify your security as your business evolves and as network attacks grow more complex. Progent works with both current and legacy security devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, go to firewall support expertise.
Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers used by teleworkers and either reject or spot and mitigate modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to detect new attacks before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain secure even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint monitoring for telecommuters.
Progent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.
Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security threats for a network that incorporates at-home workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for rapidly and affordably uncovering a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by data security experts with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your company to evaluate your operations and governance policies and review your network infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your teleworkers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper describing critical things to focus on for securing a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection Solutions for Teleworkers
Data Protection involves backing up and restoring vital information in order to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time in case of storage system problems resulting from hardware issues, software glitches, user mistakes, malware, or any other reason. Dependable data protection strategies can be especially difficult to design and manage in hybrid networks that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has renamed and reshuffled its endpoint management platforms under the title Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Microsoft Endpoint Manager provides a centralized platform for safeguarding corporate information by managing local, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also includes Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing remote devices and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be personally owned or company owned. Network administrators managing the endpoint devices of teleworkers can utilize Intune to deploy and validate apps on managed devices, push patches and certificates, set up policies for accessing data and networks, manage passwords, create VPN tunnels, control how telecommuters share information, set up threat protection, ensure compliance, and erase sensitive data from lost, stolen or decommissioned endpoint devices. Intune works with iOS/iPadOS, Android, Windows, and macOS computers. To learn about Microsoft Intune and to find out how Progent can help your company to use this platform to administer the devices of your teleworkers, visit Intune teleworker device management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified Mobile Device Management (MDM) product that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices current and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint management along with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for authorization control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product via a one-time purchase. Top capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of out-of-the-box laptops, quick onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all classes of endpoints, unifies management reporting and analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based products. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE remote device management consultants.
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
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