Enlarging your remote workforce may have a significant effect on IT architecture, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your New Haven company to select the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand guidance for helping you over occasional technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help New Haven, Connecticut organizations to with any facet of building a high-performing work-from-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk services, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Cybersecurity for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their personal computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran group of data security support experts can assist your business to plan, configure and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage different 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 become more sophisticated. Progent supports both new and older security devices from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management Services for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to track the various computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or spot and mitigate the latest cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new attacks before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the targeted endpoint device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices remain secure even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo MFA Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for a network that includes telecommuters. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably uncovering a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be managed by data security experts with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your procedures and governance policies and review your IT infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security profile. 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 provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To read or download a white paper about key things to concentrate on for protecting a network that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your New Haven, Connecticut organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.