ProSight Duo Multi-Factor Authentication
Progent's ProSight Duo catalog of managed services incorporates advanced access security technology from Duo, a Cisco company, to deliver two-factor authentication services. Two-factor authentication (2FA) is one of the foundations of zero-trust cybersecurity strategy. 2FA uses different-band identity verification to provide a second layer of security on top of traditional passwords. This guards against the most common sources of cybersecurity breaches like phishing, brute-force password attacks, and credential theft.
Duo's single-touch Mobile Push app streamlines identity validation
Duo's push technology minimizes time and distraction by permitting users to confirm who they are simply by tapping "Approve" on the authentication prompt on their own smartphone or watch. This one-touch procedure does away with the necessity to open an email or text and copy a passcode by hand.
Progent's ProSight Duo catalog consists of three subscription services that build on one another. ProSight Duo MFA allows you to deploy Duo's two-factor authentication service to protect all apps while providing basic access controls, unified management, and fast endpoint provisioning. ProSight Duo Access includes all the features of ProSight Duo MFA and adds adaptive authentication policies and extensive endpoint health checking. ProSight Duo Beyond adds the ability to differentiate company as distinct from personal devices, block untrusted devices, and give users safe and transparent access to your internal apps. Progent is a certified Duo Managed Service Provider and can assist you to plan, deploy and manage an advanced identity authentication system that delivers the highest level of security without disrupting your users.
Two-factor Authentication
The vast majority of cybersecurity break-ins exploit compromised passwords. Every service plan in Progent's ProSight Duo line of identity validation solutions can eliminate your dangerous reliance on passwords by allowing two-factor authentication. With 2FA activated, when you log into a protected online application and provide your correct password you are asked to verify who you are by means of a device that you have exclusive ownership of and that utilizes a different ("out-of-band") channel. A broad assortment of devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices.
ProSight Duo 2FA provides an additional level of security
Once you confirm your identity via your out-of-band device, you are permitted to use your application or utilize your VPN or remote desktop connection. With the Duo Mobile app's push notification feature activated, you can simply tap "Approve" on your iOS or Android smartphone or smart watch. This streamlines the sign-on experience by making the authentication procedure virtually instantaneous. For traditional authentication units, such as a hardware token, you can copy a temporary passcode.
Products Available with ProSight Duo Services
Progent's ProSight Duo suite of subscription managed service offerings include ProSight Duo MFA, ProSight Duo Access, and ProSight Duo Beyond. Progent's security consultants can help your organization to decide which plan for ProSight Duo is best suited for your requirements.
ProSight Duo MFA Features:
- Two-factor authentication
- Duo Mobile to push one-tap ID validation for smartphones and wearables
- Authentication through a Universal 2nd Factor USB device or biometrics
- Conventional two-factor authentication with a passcode on a token, mobile device, or provided by a network admin
- User self-enrollment and management
- Dashboard displaying all managed devices connected to protected applications
- Policy enforcement based on application, user group
- Cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) for all applications through an MFA-protected dashboard
ProSight Duo Access Features:
- All the features included with ProSight Duo
- Unified Endpoint Visibility shows each networked device, not just managed devices
- Highlight and track unhealthy devices
- Duo Device Health application for laptops and desktops
- Cybersecurity health monitoring for mobile endpoints
- Security policy enforcement based on geo-location
- Blocking options for anonymous networks such as The Onion Router (Tor)
- Detection of suspicious or problem networks
- Health-based policy decisions for laptops, desktops and devices
- Advise users during login to bring up to date their software and cybersecurity configurations
ProSight Duo Beyond Features:
- All the features of ProSight Duo Access
- Detection of corporate-owned vs. BYOD laptops, desktops and mobile computers
- Identification of third-party software agents like anti-virus running on devices
- Secure access to on-prem websites/applications and SSH (Secure Shell) servers without requiring VPN credential management
- Verification of both user and device trust
- Control device access to applications based on enrollment in endpoint management systems
- Control mobile access to apps determined by membership in mobile device management systems
Read ProSight Duo Two-factor Authentication Services Datasheet
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ProSight Duo access security service plans datasheet. (PDF - 335 KB)
Download Importance of Deploying Modern Password Management Technology White Paper
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Importance of Using Advanced Password Management Technology White Paper. (PDF - 2.3 MB)
How Progent Can Assist You to Build an MFA Solution with ProSight Duo
Progent can assist your company to plan, implement, manage and debug a two-factor authentication system based on ProSight Duo managed services. Progent can also assist your business to integrate ProSight Duo 2FA services into a cohesive, end-to-end security strategy by providing expertise in all aspects of advanced security tools and services for any combination of cloud, on-prem, at-home, and mobile resources and users.
Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE network experts can help you to configure and debug your Cisco ASA firewalls, switches, VPN devices, and other infrastructure to support Cisco Duo's ID verification technology. Progent's certified Azure experts, Amazon AWS configuration consultants and Google Cloud Platform consulting experts can help your business to bring the protection of ProSight Duo 2FA services to your cloud-hosted applications. Progent's teleworker solution experts can assist your organization to set up safe and resilient remote connectivity for your at-home workers.
Progent also offers rapid guidance from Microsoft 365 Exchange consultants, SQL Server consultants, and Microsoft 365 consultants help your organization to prepare and implement Duo 2FA with your key applications. Progent's CISSP-certified network security experts and CISM-certified network security specialists can help you to evaluate and elevate your company-wide cybersecurity posture. Progent also offers ProSight Active Security Monitoring services for AI based endpoint security powered by SentinelOne.
Other Managed Services Available from Progent
In addition to ProSight Duo identity authentication services, Progent can provide other value-priced managed service plans that address key aspects of your information network like cybersecurity, backup/restore, and network infrastructure monitoring and management. By partnering with leading technology innovators, Progent can provide small and middle-size companies the benefits of the identical cutting-edge technology utilized by global enterprises. Popular managed service packages available from Progent include:
- ProSight Active Security Monitoring: Endpoint Protection and Ransomware Defense
ProSight Active Security Monitoring is an endpoint protection (EPP) service that utilizes SentinelOne's next generation behavior analysis tools to defend physical and virtual endpoints against modern malware attacks such as ransomware and email phishing, which easily escape traditional signature-based anti-virus tools. ProSight Active Security Monitoring safeguards local and cloud-based resources and offers a unified platform to address the complete threat progression including blocking, infiltration detection, mitigation, remediation, and forensics. Top features include one-click rollback using Windows VSS and automatic system-wide immunization against new threats. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. Learn more about Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) next-generation endpoint protection and ransomware recovery.
- ProSight Enhanced Security Protection (ESP): Physical and Virtual Endpoint Protection and Microsoft Exchange Email Filtering
Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection managed services offer economical multi-layer security for physical servers and VMs, workstations, mobile devices, and Exchange email. ProSight ESP utilizes contextual security and advanced machine learning for continuously monitoring and responding to security threats from all attack vectors. ProSight ESP provides firewall protection, penetration alarms, device control, and web filtering through leading-edge tools packaged within one agent managed from a unified console. Progent's data protection and virtualization consultants can assist your business to design and configure a ProSight ESP environment that meets your company's specific needs and that helps you prove compliance with legal and industry information protection regulations. Progent will assist you specify and implement security policies that ProSight ESP will enforce, and Progent will monitor your IT environment and respond to alarms that require immediate action. Progent can also assist you to set up and verify a backup and disaster recovery system such as ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS) so you can recover quickly from a potentially disastrous cyber attack such as ransomware. Find out more about Progent's ProSight Enhanced Security Protection unified endpoint security and Microsoft Exchange filtering.
- ProSight Data Protection Services: Managed Backup and Disaster Recovery Services
Progent has partnered with leading backup software providers to produce ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a family of management outsourcing plans that provide backup-as-a-service (BaaS). ProSight DPS services manage and track your data backup operations and enable transparent backup and fast recovery of important files/folders, apps, images, plus Hyper-V and VMware virtual machines. ProSight DPS helps your business protect against data loss caused by equipment breakdown, natural calamities, fire, malware such as ransomware, human error, malicious employees, or software glitches. Managed backup services in the ProSight Data Protection Services product family include ProSight DPS Altaro VM Backup, ProSight 365 Total Backup (formerly Altaro 365 Backup), ProSight DPS ECHO Backup based on Barracuda dedicated hardware, and ProSight MSP360 Hybrid Backup. Your Progent service representative can assist you to determine which of these managed services are most appropriate for your IT environment.
- ProSight WAN Watch: Infrastructure Management
ProSight WAN Watch is a network infrastructure monitoring and management service that makes it easy and affordable for smaller organizations to map, track, reconfigure and debug their connectivity hardware such as routers, firewalls, and load balancers as well as servers, client computers and other networked devices. Using cutting-edge Remote Monitoring and Management technology, WAN Watch makes sure that network maps are kept updated, copies and manages the configuration information of virtually all devices connected to your network, monitors performance, and generates notices when problems are discovered. By automating time-consuming network management processes, ProSight WAN Watch can cut hours off ordinary chores like network mapping, expanding your network, finding devices that need critical updates, or identifying the cause of performance bottlenecks. Find out more about ProSight WAN Watch infrastructure management services.
- ProSight LAN Watch: Server and Desktop Remote Monitoring
ProSight LAN Watch is Progent's server and desktop monitoring service that incorporates advanced remote monitoring and management (RMM) techniques to help keep your IT system operating at peak levels by checking the state of vital assets that power your business network. When ProSight LAN Watch uncovers a problem, an alarm is transmitted immediately to your designated IT personnel and your Progent consultant so that any looming issues can be addressed before they can impact productivity. Find out more details about ProSight LAN Watch server and desktop remote monitoring consulting.
- ProSight IT Asset Management: Network Documentation Management
ProSight IT Asset Management service is a cloud-based IT documentation management service that allows you to capture, update, find and safeguard data about your IT infrastructure, processes, business apps, and services. You can quickly find passwords or serial numbers and be alerted automatically about upcoming expirations of SSL certificates ,domains or warranties. By updating and managing your network documentation, you can save up to half of time thrown away looking for vital information about your network. ProSight IT Asset Management features a centralized location for holding and sharing all documents related to managing your network infrastructure such as recommended procedures and self-service instructions. ProSight IT Asset Management also supports a high level of automation for collecting and relating IT data. Whether you're making improvements, doing regular maintenance, or reacting to a crisis, ProSight IT Asset Management delivers the information you need the instant you need it. Find out more about Progent's ProSight IT Asset Management service.
- Progent Active Protection Against Ransomware: Machine Learning-based Ransomware Identification and Remediation
Progent's Active Defense Against Ransomware is an endpoint protection solution that utilizes cutting edge behavior analysis technology to guard endpoints and servers and VMs against modern malware assaults such as ransomware and file-less exploits, which easily get by traditional signature-matching anti-virus products. Progent Active Security Monitoring services protect on-premises and cloud resources and provides a single platform to address the complete malware attack lifecycle including blocking, identification, containment, remediation, and post-attack forensics. Key features include single-click rollback using Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and automatic system-wide immunization against newly discovered attacks. Find out more about Progent's ransomware protection and cleanup services.
- Outsourced/Co-managed Call Center: Help Desk Managed Services
Progent's Help Center services permit your information technology staff to outsource Support Desk services to Progent or divide activity for Service Desk support transparently between your internal network support group and Progent's nationwide roster of IT support engineers and subject matter experts (SMEs). Progent's Co-managed Service Desk provides a transparent extension of your in-house network support team. User interaction with the Help Desk, delivery of support, problem escalation, trouble ticket creation and tracking, efficiency measurement, and management of the service database are cohesive regardless of whether issues are resolved by your corporate network support staff, by Progent's team, or by a combination. Find out more about Progent's outsourced/shared Call Center services.
- Progent's Patch Management: Patch Management Services
Progent's support services for patch management provide organizations of any size a versatile and affordable alternative for evaluating, validating, scheduling, implementing, and documenting software and firmware updates to your dynamic information system. Besides maximizing the protection and reliability of your computer network, Progent's patch management services allow your IT staff to concentrate on more strategic projects and activities that deliver maximum business value from your network. Learn more about Progent's software/firmware update management services.
Contact Progent for Network Security Expertise
If you need expertise for MFA access security or any other facet of network security, contact Progent at 800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.