Expanding your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Denver company to pick the right tools and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you over occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can help Denver, Colorado organizations to with any facet of creating a high-performing remote work environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Help Desk services, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Infrastructure for Teleworkers
Integrating the network infrastructure required to support an at-home workforce can be especially complicated if you have to accommodate a mix of worker-owned equipment such as desktop computers and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience providing remote support for both legacy and modern IT products in remote office venues enables you to make cost-effective use of your existing network infrastructure and offers ready access to expertise for making essential upgrades. Support services available from Progent to help you to create a productive telecommuting ecosystem include:
IP Voice Integration for Teleworkers
Extending the business phone system to include teleworkers is critical to maintaining an effective at-home workforce. A variety of cloud-centric IP voice platforms are used by small and mid-size businesses to server remote users. Many enterprises rely on Cisco's modern or legacy products for IP voice solutions. Progent can help organizations of any size to design or tune a telecommuter VoIP service that delivers the flexibility, convenience and security needed for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice consultants can provide advanced support to assist businesses tune their existing Cisco IP voice systems to support a growing remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for Remote Workers
A broad range of video conferencing platforms from leading technology companies support virtual discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat, and screen sharing for both onsite workers and teleworkers. Many companies use multiple products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can assist your organization to manage your existing voice/video conferencing environment and enhance the productivity of your remote workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Software for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's familiar Microsoft Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful environment of applications that deliver a consistent user interface for sharing information across a corporate network and on a broad range of endpoints. Progent has delivered remote consulting services for Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange Server since their original publication and can help your company to deploy these critical collaboration platforms to optimize the effectiveness of your remote workforce.
SharePoint uses web entities to allow collaboration and knowledge delivery by offering policy-driven access to data, workflow, and tools for searching through company-wide information silos. SharePoint allows you to build secure portals that enables at-home workforce to see and update consolidated business intelligence by means of Wikis, Blogs, social networking sites, and Web Parts. To find out about Progent's SharePoint support services, go to SharePoint configuration and development consulting.
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 details about Progent's Exchange consulting services, see planning and configuration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft's collaborative cloud-based file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote users can save files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can retrieve them safely via a web browser. Provided with Office and Microsoft 365, OneDrive allows remote workers to jointly author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. To learn about Progent's consulting expertise for OneDrive, go to Onedrive configuration consulting.
Cloud Integration Services for At-Home Workers
Progent offers affordable remote assistance for enabling businesses to build, manage and optimize cohesive hybrid network architectures that incorporate physical data centers, telecommuters, branch offices, and cloud resources. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all types of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers fix problems with public cloud connectivity, authentication, and security.
Azure is a leading family of cloud services that allows you to utilize infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical applications hosted on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure includes over 100 cloud-based services including hosting for Windows and Linux-powered VMs, scalable cloud storage, email and messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can help you to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity management with Azure Active Directory, and plan backup and restore systems with Azure Backup. Progent can also show you how to establish secure connections to Azure services for at-home workers by setting up and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN IPsec tunnels. For details about Progent's support services for Azure, go to Microsoft Azure consulting.
Microsoft 365, previously called Office 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of business productivity applications and cloud services available by subscription. Office applications and services are marketed in a selection of bundles designed for users ranging from students and small offices to large enterprises. Progent offers fast and easy remote access to consultants familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible endpoints running Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can assist your business to evaluate the numerous subscription plans offered with Microsoft 365 and deploy 365 apps for your remote workers in a way that delivers maximum business value. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft 365, visit Microsoft 365 integration support.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is one of the most popular cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product suite. Exchange Online provides the advantages of reduced costs for data center infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high reliability, and other benefits inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to run transparently with on-premises Exchange environments, allowing you to build hybrid cloud/onsite information systems. Progent's certified Exchange experts are available for occasional assistance to get you past tough technical roadblocks and also offer end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your telecommuters have easy and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online environment. To find out Progent's support services for Exchange Online, go to Exchange Online configuration and support consulting.
Amazon AWS is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing market and is the world's top provider of cloud services. Progent can provide fast and affordable online contact with cloud integration consultants who can assist your business to plan, implement, manage, and debug hybrid IT networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises data centers and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also can provide the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to help you to create a high-availability network model so your users have a consistent computing environment whether they are working from your main office, a branch office, from home, or on the road. For details about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, visit Amazon AWS integration services.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a popular set of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can assist your organization to expand your current IT assets with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can help you make your critical apps cloud friendly so your at-home workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud services. Progent can help your business to deploy virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage solution with Google Cloud Storage services, and simplify identity management for at-home workers with GCP Cloud Identity. Progent's consultants can also assist your organization to use GCP's unified management technology to administer and track your GCP environment. For information, refer to Google Cloud Platform consulting support.
Help Desk Services for At-Home Workers
A rapid, enterprise-wide transition to a from-home business model, which might be motivated by a pandemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity process, can overstretch even the most efficient in-house Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services make it possible for businesses of any size to outsource or supplement their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center team.
Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their personal devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of data security support consultants can help your business to design, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical IT assets in environments that incorporate remote workers.
Firewalls allow companies to build a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and the public. Modern firewall devices permit you to assign and manage different permissions to different groups of users and to scale your network and adjust your security profile as your business evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall support services, visit firewall integration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the various computers utilized by telecommuters and either reject or identify and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint from the network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints stay secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo MFA services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.
Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of external and internal security threats for a network that includes at-home workers. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and economically uncovering a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications such as CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your processes and policies and assess your IT infrastructure to allow you to design top-level protection for your an at-home workforce.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
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Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection for At-Home Workers
Data Protection covers backing up and restoring critical data so as to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time in case of storage problems due to equipment issues, programming glitches, operator mistakes, cyber attack, or any other reason. Dependable data protection solutions can be especially challenging to architect and maintain in hybrid networks that incorporate private data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.
Unified Management for Remote Workers
Microsoft has renamed and reshuffled its endpoint management platforms under the name Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Endpoint Manager offers a centralized solution for protecting critical data by controlling local, mobile, and at-home endpoint devices.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and securing mobile computers and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be user owned or company owned. Network administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of telecommuters can utilize Intune to deploy and authenticate apps on managed devices, push updates and certificates, configure rules for accessing information and networks, manage passwords, establish VPN tunnels, control how teleworkers share data, establish threat defense, verify security compliance, and delete corporate information from lost, stolen or deactivated endpoint devices. Intune can be used with Apple iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS devices. For details about Microsoft Intune and how Progent can assist your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint devices of your at-home workforce, refer to Intune remote device management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich unified Mobile Device Management platform that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoints up to date and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint administration along with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery technology for authorization control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint devices. Workspace ONE runs with devices based on Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or leading distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site deployment through a perpetual license. Top capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air deployment of new laptops, quick onboarding of new employees, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of devices, aggregated reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft apps and cloud-based services. To find out about Progent's support for VMware Workspace ONE, see VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
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