Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a major impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Dallas company to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in building and operating a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns top business value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Dallas, Texas businesses to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Help Desk services, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home workers typically use their own computers and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of cybersecurity solutions consultants can help you to design, implement and manage a compliant security solution that protects vital IT resources in environments that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to build a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by at-home workers, mobile workers, suppliers, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to scale your network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both current and older firewall devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, visit firewall configuration and support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management Services for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers utilized by at-home workers and either block or identify and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats on arrival. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the impacted endpoint device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay 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 security monitoring for at-home workers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used as this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate several verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all classes of external and local security attacks for an environment that includes at-home workers. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for rapidly and economically detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications such as CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to audit your operations and governance policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your at-home workers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

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

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient work-from-home solution for your Dallas, Texas organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.