Expanding your remote workforce may have a major effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Hartford organization to select the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns top value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you over challenging technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Hartford, Connecticut organizations to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-from-home environment by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Call Desk services, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security for At-Home Workers
At-home employees typically use their personal computers and often work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user education, and the development of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity support consultants can assist you to design, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT assets in networks that include at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users and by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and control different access rights to various groups of users and to scale your network and modify your security as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both new and legacy security devices from all leading vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring for TeleworkersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers used by teleworkers and either reject or spot and mitigate the latest threats such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is put on every protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for remote workers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo authentication Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second means of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security attacks for a network that includes telecommuters. Progent can run online, automated security analysis software for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be provided by security professionals with advanced certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your workflows and governance policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your teleworkers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper about critical areas to concentrate on for protecting a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To contact Progent about building and maintaining an efficient telecommuter environment for your Hartford, Connecticut business, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.