Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Cheyenne company to select the right tools and follow best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you past occasional technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent can help Cheyenne, Wyoming businesses to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-from-home environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Call Desk services, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Security for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home staff members commonly use their personal computers and often work in an unsecured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security support consultants can help you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital information assets in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by telecommuters, mobile users, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall appliances allow you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to various classes of users and to scale your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks become more sophisticated. Progent supports both new and older firewall appliances from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall integration expertise, refer to firewall support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring Services for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate devices utilized by remote workers and either reject or identify and respond to modern threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every protected endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats before they can spread. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the infected endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoints stay protected even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports single-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used for this second means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates at-home workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity analysis scanning for rapidly and economically detecting a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your procedures and policies and review your IT architecture to enable you to implement top-level security for your teleworkers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

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

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive work-from-home solution for your Cheyenne, Wyoming organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.