Expanding your remote workforce may have a major effect on IT architecture, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Jersey City organization to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can assist Jersey City, New Jersey companies to with any aspect of creating a high-performing remote work ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Network Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Setting up the network infrastructure needed for an at-home workforce can be particularly complex if you have to manage a mix of worker-owned hardware such as PCs and laptops, Internet routers, and wireless APs from an assortment of vendors and with a variety of operating systems and firmware levels. Progent's experience providing remote help for both outdated and modern IT products in virtual office venues allows you to make efficient use of your available network infrastructure and provides you with fast access to expertise for implement necessary upgrades. Services offered by Progent to help you to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
VoIP Integration for At-Home Workers
Expanding the business PBX environment to include remote users is critical to maintaining a productive at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-based IP voice products are popular with SMBs to server teleworkers. Many larger organizations depend on Cisco's modern or older platforms for VoIP solutions. Progent can assist organizations of any size to plan or maintain a remote VoIP service that delivers the versatility, transparency and security required for at-home workers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer high-level support to help businesses tune their existing Cisco IP voice systems to support an expanding remote workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for an At-Home Workforce
A broad selection of video conferencing products from major technology companies enable online discussions, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen sharing for both local users and teleworkers. Many organizations utilize a mix of conferencing products to accommodate their various partners and customers. Progent can assist your organization to maintain your current conferencing ecosystem and enhance the experience of your remote employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote and Hybrid Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 suites, providing a powerful environment of productivity apps that deliver a consistent user experience for exchanging data and ideas across multiple sites and on a broad range of endpoints. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their original publication and can assist businesses to configure these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize 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. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and application sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for supporting its full range of capabilities. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams, see solution design and deployment consulting for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint utilizes web entities to enable collaboration and knowledge sharing by offering policy-based delivery of data, workflow, and tools for searching through enterprise-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to create secure portals that permits at-home workers to view and update aggregated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social web sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). For details about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, see SharePoint configuration 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. For information about Progent's Exchange support services, see integration consulting services for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud file hosting and synchronization service, similar to GoogleDrive. Remote users can store files to OneDrive, and colleagues anywhere can share them securely through a browser. Included with Office 365, OneDrive enables remote employees to jointly author files. Revisions made offline are uploaded when you reconnect to the Internet. For information about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft OneDrive, refer to Onedrive configuration consulting.
Cloud Integration Services for Remote Workers
Progent can provide fast and affordable online assistance for helping organizations to create, maintain and optimize integrated hybrid network models that incorporate internal data centers, teleworkers, branch offices, plus public cloud resources. Progent offers top-tier consultant for all modes of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help at-home workers fix issues with cloud access, identity, and security.
Azure is a leading platform for public cloud services that enables you to utilize IT infrastructure, servers, and key applications hosted on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Microsoft Azure features more than 100 services services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-based virtual machines, scalable cloud storage, messaging, app development with Visual Studio, and data protection. Progent can help your organization to set up VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, configure cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity management with Azure Active Directory, and design data backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup. Progent can also help you establish protected connections to Azure services for telecommuters by setting up and debugging firewalls and VPN IPsec tunnels. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Azure, visit Azure expertise.
Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of business productivity software and cloud-based services offered by subscription. Office applications and services are marketed in a selection of bundles intended for users ranging from students and small offices to large enterprises. Progent offers quick and easy remote access to consultants familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible endpoints based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can assist you to evaluate the numerous subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and deploy 365 apps for your telecommuters in a way that delivers top business value. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 integration expertise.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is one of the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online provides the advantages of lower costs for physical infrastructure, simplified management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and other benefits associated with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate transparently with local Exchange environments, enabling customers to build hybrid information systems. Progent's Exchange experts are available for as-needed assistance to guide you past challenging IT roadblocks and can also provide end-to-end project management services to ensure your remote workers have convenient and safe access to your Exchange Online deployment. For information Progent's support services for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, visit Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration and troubleshooting expertise.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a pioneer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's top source of cloud-based services. Progent offers fast and economical online access to cloud integration experts who can assist your business to plan, implement, 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 offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist your company to create a high-availability network model so your employees have a consistent computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your main office, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Amazon AWS, refer to Amazon AWS consulting expertise.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a popular collection of cloud computing 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 extend your existing IT assets with the Google Cloud, and Progent's database consultants can show you how to make your key apps cloud ready so your remote workers can benefit fully from Google Cloud Platform services. Progent's consultants can help your business to deploy virtual machines on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan an efficient storage solution with Google Cloud Storage services, and simplify identity management for at-home workers with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent can also assist your business to utilize GCP's management tools to administer and monitor your Google Cloud ecosystem. To find out, go to Google Cloud Platform integration support.
Help Desk Support for Telecommuters
A fast, enterprise-wide changeover to a from-home workforce, which might be motivated by an epidemic or as an element of a business continuity preparedness plan, can overstretch even a well-staffed in-house Support Desk. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services make it possible for organizations to outsource or augment their Help Desk Call Center by using Progent's remote Technical Response Center (TRC) services.
Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
At-home employees commonly use their personal computers and often work in an unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security support experts can help your business to design, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical information assets in environments that incorporate telecommuters.
Firewalls allow companies to create a network environment that can be safely accessed by on-premises users as well as by at-home workers, mobile users, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances allow you to assign and control appropriate permissions to various groups of users and to expand your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow more complex. Progent works with both new and legacy security devices 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.
Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate devices utilized by teleworkers and either block or spot and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight software agent is put on every secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and using advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats at inception. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices remain secure even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for remote workers.
Progent's Duo MFA Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a unit that only you possess and that uses a separate network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added form of ID validation such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of external and local security threats for an environment that includes an at-home workforce. Progent can run remote, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be provided by network security experts with top credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your operations and governance policies and assess your network infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your telecommuters.
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 and your internal and perimeter networks so you can expose, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To view or download a white paper describing key things to concentrate on for protecting a network that includes work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection Solutions for Telecommuters
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and restoring vital data so as to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time and effort in case of storage system problems resulting from hardware issues, programming hiccups, user mistakes, cyber attack, or any other reason. Dependable data protection strategies can be especially challenging to design 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 rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the name Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing onsite computers. Microsoft Endpoint Manager offers a centralized solution for safeguarding critical information by controlling onsite, mobile, and home-based endpoints.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and securing mobile computers and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be user owned or company owned. IT admins managing the endpoint computers of at-home workers can utilize Intune to deploy and validate applications on managed devices, push patches and certificates, set up rules for accessing information and resources, set passwords, create VPN tunnels, control how teleworkers share data, establish threat protection, ensure compliance, and wipe corporate information from missing, stolen or decommissioned devices. Microsoft Intune runs with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS computers. For details about Intune and how Progent can help your company to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the devices of your at-home workers, see Intune teleworker device management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced unified MDM product that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices up to date and protected. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch technology for centralized endpoint management along with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery platform for access control, app management, and configuration management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE runs with endpoints powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site deployment via a one-time purchase. Key features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid over-the-air provisioning of out-of-the-box notebooks, immediate onboarding of new users, policy setting and enforcement for all classes of endpoints, unifies management reporting and performance analytics, an email encryption gateway, and tight integration with Microsoft applications and cloud-based services. For information about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, go to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management expertise.
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