Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, security, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Des Moines company to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns top business value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for helping you past occasional IT roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Des Moines, Iowa companies to with any facet of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Call Desk services, data security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically use their personal computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for 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 team of cybersecurity solutions experts can assist your business to design, deploy and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that include at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow companies to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and control appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to expand your network and adjust your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats become more complex. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall support expertise, visit firewall integration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for TeleworkersRemote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the disparate computers used by teleworkers and either block or identify and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every protected endpoint, watching all activity and using advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the impacted device from the network to quarantine the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for remote workers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all types of outside and internal security threats for an environment that includes telecommuters. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis software for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your operations and governance policies and assess your WAN architecture to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your at-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, remediate, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper describing critical areas to concentrate on for protecting a network that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your Des Moines, Iowa organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.