Expanding your remote workforce can have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Chesapeake company to select the right tools and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you past challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Chesapeake, Virginia organizations to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-from-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud connectivity, Call Desk augmentation, security monitoring, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security for Telecommuters
At-home employees typically utilize their personal computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of data security support experts can help your business to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in networks that include an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to build a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices allow you to configure and control appropriate permissions to various groups of users and to expand your IT network and adjust your security profile as your business evolves and as network attacks grow more complex. Progent supports both current and older firewall appliances from all major manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall support services, go to firewall integration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices used by telecommuters and either reject or spot and respond to the latest threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is put on each protected endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks at inception. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoints stay secure even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and give your password you are asked to verify your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of external and local security attacks for a network that includes teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security analysis software for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be managed by data security experts with advanced credentials including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your workflows and governance policies and review your IT architecture to allow you to design the highest level of security for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your at-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper describing key areas to focus on for protecting a network that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Chesapeake, Virginia organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.