Expanding your remote workforce may have a major impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to design, deploy, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Baton Rouge organization to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers top value. Progent can provide services ranging from on demand expertise for getting you past challenging technical bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Baton Rouge, Louisiana organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk services, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home staff members commonly use their own computers and usually work in a poorly secured physical space. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity support experts can assist your business to design, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital IT assets in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to create a network environment that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by telecommuters, mobile users, suppliers, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats become more complex. Progent works with both current and legacy firewall devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, see firewall support services.

Remote Security Monitoring for TeleworkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate devices used by telecommuters and either block or identify and mitigate the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is put on each protected endpoint, watching all activity and using advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the targeted device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoint devices remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be used for this added means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. For details about Duo identity validation services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all types of outside and local security attacks for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity analysis software for rapidly and economically uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by security professionals with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your processes and policies and assess your WAN architecture to allow you to design top-level protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

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

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing an efficient telecommuter environment for your Baton Rouge, Louisiana organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.