Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on network architecture, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Colorado Springs company to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns top value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past occasional IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.
Progent can assist Colorado Springs, Colorado companies to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the network infrastructure needed for an at-home workforce can be particularly challenging if you must manage a mix of worker-owned hardware such as desktop computers and notebooks, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from an assortment of manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing online help for both legacy and modern technologies in remote office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to expertise for implement essential updates. Support services available from Progent to help your company to create a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem include:
IP Voice Solutions for Teleworkers
Expanding the corporate PBX system to accommodate remote users is critical to maintaining a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-centric VoIP products are popular with small and mid-size businesses to server teleworkers. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's modern or legacy platforms for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or maintain a remote VoIP environment that delivers the versatility, convenience and security needed for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide advanced support to help businesses optimize their current Cisco IP voice systems to handle an expanding at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for At-Home Workers
A broad range of voice/video conferencing products from leading technology companies enable online discussions, video conferencing, chat, and screen sharing for both onsite workers and at-home workers. Many organizations utilize a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent can assist your organization to manage your existing voice/video conferencing ecosystem and enhance the experience of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for At-Home Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 families, providing a powerful environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user interface for sharing data and ideas throughout multiple sites and on a broad selection of endpoint devices. Progent has provided online consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial publication and can help businesses to tune these critical collaboration platforms to maximize the productivity of your at-home workforce.
SharePoint uses web entities to enable collaboration and knowledge delivery by offering policy-driven delivery of data, business processes, and tools for searching through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint enables you to create protected portals that permits remote workforce to see and edit consolidated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts. For information about Progent's SharePoint support services, see SharePoint integration and application 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. To find out about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, refer to deployment consulting for Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft's collaborative cloud file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can store files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can retrieve them securely via a web browser. Included with Office and Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables at-home workers to co-edit files. Revisions created offline are automatically uploaded when you go back online. For information about Progent's support services for OneDrive, visit Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.
Public Cloud Integration Services for At-Home Workers
Progent can provide advanced online support for helping organizations to build, manage and optimize integrated network architectures that incorporate internal data centers, telecommuters, branch offices, and public cloud services. Progent can provide top-tier consultant for all types of cloud service including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help at-home workers resolve problems with cloud access, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Microsoft Azure is a popular platform for public cloud software and services that enables you to use IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and key applications running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Azure features over one hundred services services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-powered virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, email and messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can help your organization to deploy VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity control with Azure AD, and plan data backup and restore systems with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to create secure connections to Azure services for teleworkers by configuring and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN tunnels. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting services.
Microsoft 365, previously called Office 365, is Microsoft's growing suite of client productivity software and cloud-based services offered on a subscription basis. Office apps and cloud services are provided in a variety of plans intended for customers ranging from students and households to large enterprises. Progent offers fast and easy online access to experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android technology. Progent can assist you to evaluate the various subscription bundles offered with Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your remote workers to achieve maximum business value. For information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft 365, go to Microsoft 365 integration support.
Exchange Online is among the most popular cloud-based applications in the Microsoft 365 product line. Exchange Online offers the benefits of lower spending for physical infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and additional advantages associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing customers to build hybrid networks. Progent's Exchange experts are available for occasional assistance to get you through challenging IT roadblocks and can also provide comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your teleworkers have easy and secure access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment. To find out Progent's consulting services for Exchange Online, go to Exchange Online integration and support consulting.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing arena and is the industry's top source of cloud services. Progent offers quick and economical online access to cloud connectivity consultants who can assist your organization to plan, deploy, maintain, and debug hybrid IT networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds like Azure. Progent also can provide access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help your company to create a high-availability network architecture so your employees have a consistent computing experience regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, from home, or on the move. For information about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, go to Amazon AWS consulting services.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a popular suite of cloud services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist your organization to scale your current IT assets with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA experts can help you make your mission-critical apps cloud friendly so your remote workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud Platform services. Progent can help your business to set up virtual machines on GCP Compute Engine, design a cost-effective storage solution with Google Cloud Storage services, and streamline access management for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity. Progent can also help your business to use GCP's management technology to control and monitor your GCP environment. To find out, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) integration services.
Help Desk Call Center Support for Teleworkers
An emergency, enterprise-wide transition to a from-home workforce, which could be driven by an epidemic or as a component of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed in-house Call Center. Progent's Call Center services make it possible for organizations of any size to outsource or augment their Help Desk with Progent's online Technical Response Center services.
Security for Telecommuters
At-home staff members typically utilize their personal computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of cybersecurity support experts can assist your business to plan, configure and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that include remote workers.
Firewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users as well as by telecommuters, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to assign and control appropriate access rights to various groups of users and to scale your network and modify your security as your company evolves and as network attacks become increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and older firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration services, see firewall configuration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers used by an at-home workforce and either reject or spot and mitigate the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new attacks at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the infected endpoint device from the network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is autonomous, endpoint devices remain protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.
Security Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all types of outside and internal security threats for a network that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your company to evaluate your processes and policies and assess your IT architecture to allow you to design the highest level of security for your at-home workers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To view or download a white paper about key things to concentrate on for protecting an IT environment that includes telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection Solutions for Telecommuters
Data Protection covers saving and restoring critical information in order to prevent data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in the event of storage failures due to equipment breakdowns, software glitches, user error, malware, or other causes. Reliable data protection strategies can be particularly challenging to design and maintain in hybrid environments that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has rebranded and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the title Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Microsoft Endpoint Manager features a centralized platform for safeguarding critical data by managing onsite, mobile, and home-based endpoint devices.
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 protecting remote devices and software. Remote endpoint computers can be personally owned or company owned. IT administrators managing the endpoint devices of teleworkers can use Intune to provision and authenticate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, configure policies for permission to access data and resources, set passwords, establish VPN tunnels, control how telecommuters share information, set up threat defense, verify compliance, and delete sensitive information from lost, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune works with iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS devices. To find out about Intune and to find out how Progent can assist you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the devices of your teleworkers, see Intune mobile device management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized Mobile Device Management (MDM) platform that helps network managers to keep off-premises endpoint devices current and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint administration plus VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery platform for access control, app management, and setup management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE operates with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-premises deployment through a one-time purchase. Key capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of new laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of devices, aggregated reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based products. For information about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management expertise.
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