Computer Security and Compliance

Expanding your at-home pool of workers can have a major effect on network infrastructure, security, and your business culture. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) to design, implement, optimize, manage, and debug network environments that incorporate a remote workforce. offsite workers. Progent can help your company to determine the right technologies and adhere to best practices in building and supporting a safe virtualized environment that promotes collaboration and delivers maximum business value.

Progent offers remote services that range from as-needed support for helping you through sporadic technical bottlenecks to full project management for successfully completing business-critical initiatives.

Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often operate in an unsecured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of cybersecurity solutions experts can assist you to design, implement and maintain a compliant security solution that guards critical information resources in networks that include telecommuters.

Firewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by teleworkers, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances allow you to assign and manage different access rights to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly complex. Progent supports both new and older firewall devices from all major manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, refer to firewall configuration and support services.

Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices utilized by an at-home workforce and either block or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight agent is put on every protected endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the impacted device from the network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even if they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for telecommuters.

Progent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To find out more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security attacks for an environment that includes at-home workers. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity analysis software for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be managed by network security experts with top credentials including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to enable you to implement top-level security for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To read or download a white paper about key things to concentrate on for securing 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 Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.

Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is designed to assist organizations to take the time-critical first step in mitigating a ransomware assault by putting out the fire. Progent's online ransomware expert can assist you to identify and isolate infected servers and endpoints and guard undamaged assets from being penetrated. If your system has been breached by any strain of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For details, visit Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.