Palo Alto At Home Workforce Integration Consulting

Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on IT architecture, security, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of background assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Palo Alto organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand expertise for getting you past occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.

Progent can help Palo Alto, California businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home employees commonly utilize their personal computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical space. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of IT security support consultants can help you to design, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT assets in environments that include at-home workers.

Firewalls allow companies to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by teleworkers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage appropriate access rights to different groups of users and to scale your network and adjust your security as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and older firewall appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, see firewall configuration and support services.

Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers utilized by at-home workers and either block or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning from SentinelOne to detect new attacks before they can spread. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the impacted endpoint from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint security monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo authentication Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security attacks for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis scanning for quickly and economically uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be managed by data security professionals with advanced certifications including CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your IT architecture to allow you to implement top-level protection for your teleworkers.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your present security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper about critical areas to focus on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Palo Alto, California business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.