Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant impact on IT architecture, security/compliance, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience helping businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Harrisburg company to select the right technologies and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide services that go from as-needed guidance for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.
Progent can assist Harrisburg, Pennsylvania businesses to with any facet of creating a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Call Desk augmentation, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Network Infrastructure for a Remote Workforce
Setting up the network infrastructure needed to support an at-home workforce can be particularly challenging if you have to accommodate a mix of worker-owned equipment like PCs and notebooks, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi APs from different manufacturers and with a mix of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing online support for both outdated as well as current IT products in remote office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to expertise for making essential upgrades. Services offered by Progent to assist you to create a high-functioning work-at-home infrastructure include:
IP Voice Solutions for Remote Workers
Extending the corporate phone system to include teleworkers is critical to maintaining an effective work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-based digital PBX products are used by SMBs to support teleworkers. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's modern or legacy products for IP voice solutions. Progent can help businesses of any size to plan or tune a telecommuter IP voice service that delivers the versatility, transparency and security required for remote users. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice experts can provide advanced support to assist organizations tune their existing Cisco VoIP systems to support a growing at-home workforce.
Video Conferencing for an At-Home Workforce
A wide selection of voice/video conferencing products from major vendors enable virtual meetings, video and voice conferencing, chat, and screen/content sharing for both local workers and telecommuters. Many organizations use a mix of conferencing products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can assist you to manage your current conferencing environment and enhance the engagement of your at-home workforce.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for Remote and Hybrid Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office suites, providing a rich environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user experience for exchanging data and ideas throughout a corporate network and on a broad selection of endpoint devices. Progent has delivered online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their original releases and can help your company to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to optimize the productivity of your remote workforce.
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 deliver real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can enable chat, audio/video meetings that include screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and relies on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of capabilities. To learn more about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams, visit planning and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint utilizes web sites to allow collaboration and knowledge sharing by offering policy-driven delivery of content, workflow, and tools for looking through company-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to create secure portals that enables at-home workforce to view and edit consolidated corporate intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social networking web sites, and Web Parts. For information about Progent's SharePoint consulting expertise, go to SharePoint configuration and application 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 expertise, see integration expertise for Microsoft Exchange.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can store files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can access them safely through a web browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive enables home workers to jointly author files. Edits made offline are automatically synced when you go back online. To find out about Progent's expertise for OneDrive, go to Onedrive integration experts.
Cloud Integration for Remote Workers
Progent offers affordable online support for helping organizations to build, manage and troubleshoot integrated hybrid network models that incorporate internal data centers, telecommuters, branch offices, plus public cloud resources. Progent can provide top-tier consultant for all modes of public cloud service delivery such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help remote workers resolve problems with cloud connectivity, authentication, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a popular platform for cloud services that enables you to use IT infrastructure, servers, and critical apps running on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features over 100 services services such as hosting for Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, on-demand cloud storage, email and messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can help your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate 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 help you create protected connections to Azure for teleworkers by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN tunnels. To find out about Progent's consulting services for Azure, refer to Microsoft Azure consulting.
Microsoft 365, previously called Office 365, is Microsoft's popular family of client productivity software and cloud-based services available on a subscription basis. Microsoft applications and cloud services are provided in a variety of plans designed for customers ranging from students and small offices to major enterprises. Progent can provide fast and affordable remote contact with experts familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible endpoint devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent can help your business to assess the numerous subscription bundles offered with Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your teleworkers in a way that delivers top business value. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft 365, refer to Microsoft 365 consulting support.
Exchange Online is among the most popular cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of reduced spending for data center infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high reliability, and other advantages associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to run seamlessly with local deployments of Exchange, enabling you to build hybrid information systems. Progent's certified Exchange consultants can provide occasional help to get you past challenging IT roadblocks and also offer comprehensive project management services to ensure your remote workers have convenient and secure access to your Exchange Online environment. To learn Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, see Exchange Online integration and support expertise.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a trailblazer in the public cloud computing market and is the world's leading source of cloud-based services. Progent offers rapid and affordable online contact with cloud integration consultants who can help your organization to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot hybrid information networks that integrate Amazon AWS cloud services with on-premises data centers and with other public clouds such as Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to create a high-availability network architecture so your users have a productive computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. To find out about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, refer to Amazon AWS consulting expertise.
Google Cloud Platform is a leading suite of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can help your business to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA consultants can help you make your mission-critical applications cloud ready so your remote workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can assist you to deploy VMs on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan a cost-effective storage system with GCP Storage, and simplify access management for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent can also assist your organization to use GCP's management tools to control and monitor your GCP ecosystem. To learn, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting services.
Help Desk Services for Teleworkers
A sudden, company-wide transition to a telecommuter workforce, which could be motivated by a pandemic or as an element of a business continuity preparedness plan, can overwhelm even the most efficient in-house Call Desk. Progent's Help Desk services allow organizations of any size to outsource or augment their Help Desk Call Center with Progent's remote Technical Response Center team.
Security and Compliance for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically utilize their own computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of data security support experts can assist you to plan, implement and maintain an effective security solution that guards vital IT resources in networks that incorporate at-home workers.
Firewalls enable you to create a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users and by teleworkers, mobile workers, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices allow you to configure and control different access rights to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and legacy security appliances from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall integration and support expertise.
Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or identify and respond to modern threats such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every protected endpoint, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new attacks before they can spread. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly isolates the infected endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity authentication services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all types of outside and internal security threats for a network that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity inventory software for rapidly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your operations and governance policies and review your network infrastructure to allow you to design top-level protection for your an at-home workforce.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your at-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical things to concentrate on for securing a network that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection for Remote Workers
Data Protection covers saving and recovering critical information in order to prevent data loss and minimize recovery time and effort in case of storage failures due to hardware issues, programming hiccups, human error, cyber attack, or any other reason. Reliable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to architect and manage in hybrid networks that combine local data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for an At-Home Workforce
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the title Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing onsite computers. Microsoft Endpoint Manager features a centralized environment for safeguarding corporate data by managing local, mobile, and home-based endpoint devices.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also features Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting remote computers and applications. Managed endpoint computers can be user owned or company owned. IT admins managing the endpoint devices of at-home workers can use Intune to deploy and validate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, configure policies for permission to access information and resources, manage passwords, establish VPN connections, control how teleworkers share data, establish threat defense, verify compliance, and erase corporate information from lost, stolen or decommissioned devices. Intune runs with iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X computers. For details about Intune and to find out how Progent can assist you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to administer the endpoint devices of your telecommuters, see Intune telecommuter device management expertise.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management platform that helps network administrators to keep off-premises endpoint devices up to date and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch technology for unified endpoint administration combined with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for authorization control, app management, and setup management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE operates with devices based on Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site product through a one-time purchase. Top features of Workspace ONE include fast over-the-air provisioning of out-of-the-box laptops, immediate onboarding of new employees, policy setting and enforcement for all categories of devices, unifies reporting and analytics, an email encryption gateway, and integration with Microsoft apps and cloud-based services. For information about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, go to VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management consultants.
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
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