Lakeland Offsite Workforce Integration Support and Consulting

Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience helping SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Lakeland company to pick the right tools and adhere to best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand expertise for helping you over challenging technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Lakeland, Florida businesses to with any aspect of building a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Security for Remote Workers
At-home staff members commonly utilize their own devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of IT security support experts can help you to design, implement and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in networks that include an at-home workforce.

Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by telecommuters, mobile employees, suppliers, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to configure and manage different permissions to various groups of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall devices from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support expertise, refer to firewall integration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or spot and mitigate the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the impacted endpoint from the network to contain the malware. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is autonomous, endpoints stay secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Progent's Duo MFA Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be used as this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. To learn more about Duo identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all classes of outside and local security threats for an environment that includes an at-home workforce. Progent can deploy remote, automated security analysis scanning for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by security professionals with advanced credentials including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your business to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your network architecture to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, rank, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To read or download a white paper describing critical areas to focus on for protecting an IT environment that includes work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing an efficient work-from-home environment for your Lakeland, Florida company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.