Enlarging your remote workforce can have a significant impact on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to design, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Perth company to pick the right tools and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you past challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Perth, Western Australia businesses to with any aspect of building a high-performing remote work environment by delivering infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.
Infrastructure for Telecommuters
Configuring the physical and software infrastructure required to support an at-home work environment can be particularly challenging if you have to manage a combination of personal hardware like desktop computers and notebooks, Internet routers, and wireless appliances from different manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience delivering online help for both legacy as well as current IT products in virtual office solutions enables you to make cost-effective use of your available network infrastructure and provides you with ready access to top-tire consultants for implement essential upgrades. Services available from Progent to assist your company to create a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:
VoIP Solutions for Telecommuters
Extending the company phone environment to accommodate teleworkers is critical to supporting an effective work-at-home solution. A broad range of cloud-based IP voice platforms are popular with SMBs to support teleworkers. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's modern or older platforms for VoIP management. Progent can assist businesses of any size to plan or tune a telecommuter VoIP service that provides the flexibility, convenience and security required for teleworkers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE IP Voice consultants offer high-level support to help organizations tune their existing Cisco IP voice systems to support a growing remote workforce.
Video Conferencing for At-Home Workers
A wide selection of video conferencing platforms from major vendors support virtual meetings, video and voice conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both local users and at-home workers. Many organizations use a mix of products to meet the needs of their various partners and clients. Progent can assist your organization to maintain your current voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the productivity of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Collaboration Platforms for Remote and Hybrid Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are closely integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suites, offering a powerful ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for exchanging information across a corporate network and on a wide range of endpoint computers. Progent has delivered remote consulting support for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their initial releases and can assist businesses to deploy these critical collaboration products to maximize the effectiveness of your remote workers.
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 integrates with third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration and communication. Developed as a substitute for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, video meetings with screen sharing, calling, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its complete range of features. For details about Progent's consulting services for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium, visit planning and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web sites to enable collaboration and information sharing by providing policy-based access to content, business processes, and tools for searching through enterprise-wide information silos. SharePoint permits you to create protected web portals that allows remote workers to see and update consolidated business intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To learn about Progent's SharePoint support services, refer 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. To learn about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, see integration consulting services for Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s collaborative cloud storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and co-workers anywhere can share them securely via a web browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables home employees to co-author documents. Edits made offline are automatically synced when you go back online. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for OneDrive, refer to Onedrive integration experts.
Cloud Integration Services for Remote Workers
Progent offers affordable online support for enabling organizations to create, maintain and optimize integrated hybrid network architectures that incorporate physical data centers, telecommuters, branches, plus cloud services. Progent can provide expertise for all modes of public cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help telecommuters fix problems with public cloud connectivity, identity, and cybersecurity.
Azure is a leading platform for cloud software and services that allows you to utilize IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical apps hosted on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Azure features more than 100 cloud-based services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-based VMs, on-demand cloud storage, messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can assist you to deploy VMs on Azure Virtual Machines, integrate storage on Azure Storage services, unify identity control with Azure AD, and design backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also help you establish protected access to Azure services for teleworkers by setting up and debugging firewall appliances and VPN IPsec tunnels. To find out about Progent's support services for Microsoft Azure, refer to Microsoft Azure expertise.
Microsoft 365, previously branded Office 365, is Microsoft's growing family of business productivity applications and cloud services offered by subscription. Microsoft applications and services are provided in a selection of bundles intended for customers ranging from individuals and small offices to major corporations. Progent can provide quick and easy remote access to consultants knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible devices based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can help you to assess the various subscription bundles available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your telecommuters to achieve top business value. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 integration services.
Exchange Online is among the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Microsoft 365 Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower costs for physical infrastructure, simplified management, dynamic scaling, high reliability, and additional advantages inherent with public clouds. Microsoft has engineered Microsoft 365 Exchange Online to operate seamlessly with local Exchange environments, allowing customers to create hybrid cloud/onsite networks. Progent's Exchange consultants are available for as-needed help to guide you past challenging IT roadblocks and also offer end-to-end project management outsourcing to make sure your teleworkers have easy and secure access to your Exchange Online environment. To find out Progent's consulting expertise for Exchange Online, see Microsoft 365 Exchange Online integration and support expertise.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud market and is the industry's leading source of cloud-based services. Progent offers fast and economical online access to cloud integration experts who can assist your business to design, implement, maintain, and debug hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud services with local resources and with other public clouds like Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to create a high-uptime network architecture to make sure your employees have a consistent computing experience regardless of whether they are working from your headquarters, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. To find out about Progent's consulting services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS integration support.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a popular suite of cloud computing services that offers Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can assist your business to extend your existing IT assets with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's DBA consultants can help you make your critical apps cloud friendly so your at-home workers can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent's consultants can help you to set up VMs on GCP Compute Engine, design a cost-effective storage solution with GCP Storage services, and simplify access control for at-home workers with GCP Cloud Identity services. Progent's experts can also assist you to utilize GCP's management tools to control and monitor your Google Cloud environment. For information, refer to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting support.
Help Desk Support for Teleworkers
An emergency, company-wide transition to a from-home business model, which could be activated by an epidemic or as part of a disaster recovery preparedness plan, can overwhelm even a high-performing 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 (TRC) services.
Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly utilize their own computers and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of cybersecurity solutions experts can help you to design, deploy and manage an effective security solution that guards critical information resources in networks that include telecommuters.
Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be securely accessed by on-premises users and by telecommuters, mobile users, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to configure and control appropriate access rights to various groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow more sophisticated. Progent works with both new and legacy security appliances from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall support expertise, see firewall configuration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices used by teleworkers and either reject or identify and respond to modern threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the impacted device from the corporate network to contain the malware. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoints stay secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.
Progent's Duo authentication Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this added form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.
Security Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and local security attacks for an environment that incorporates remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for rapidly and affordably uncovering a broad range of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be managed by network security experts with top credentials such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your workflows and governance policies and review your IT architecture to enable you to design the highest level of 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 automated testing of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out more information about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.
Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical areas to concentrate on for securing a network that includes telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection for At-Home Workers
The field of Data Protection covers saving and restoring critical data in order to avoid data loss and reduce restoration time and effort in case of storage system failures due to hardware breakdowns, programming hiccups, operator error, cyber attack, or other causes. Reliable data protection strategies can be particularly difficult to design and manage in hybrid networks that incorporate private data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.
Unified Management for Telecommuters
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management platforms under the name Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud-based management of mobile and remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing local computers. Endpoint Manager offers a unified environment for protecting corporate information by controlling on-premises, mobile, and at-home endpoints.
Microsoft Intune
Intune is part of Microsoft's Endpoint Management family that also features Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and securing remote computers and software. Managed endpoint devices can be personally owned or business owned. Network administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of teleworkers can use Intune to provision and validate applications on managed devices, push updates and certificates, set up rules for permission to access data and resources, set passwords, establish VPN connections, determine how home-based workers share information, establish threat protection, verify security compliance, and erase sensitive information from missing, stolen or deactivated devices. Intune works with iOS/iPadOS, Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. For information about Intune and to find out how Progent can help your company to use this platform to manage the endpoint computers of your teleworkers, see Intune teleworker device management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management platform that allows network administrators to keep off-premises endpoint devices up to date and secure. Workspace ONE incorporates VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint administration combined with VMware's Horizon virtual software delivery platform for access control, application management, and setup management of endpoint computers. Workspace ONE operates with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or leading distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is available by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-site product through a one-time purchase. Top features of VMware Workspace ONE include rapid remote deployment of new laptops, immediate onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all classes of devices, unifies management reporting and performance analytics, email encryption, and tight integration with Microsoft apps and cloud products. To find out about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.
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