Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a significant effect on IT architecture, security, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Midland organization to pick the right tools and follow leading practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes collaboration and returns top business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed expertise for helping you past challenging technical roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent can help Midland, Texas organizations to succeed with any aspect of building a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Help Desk services, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Security for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home workers typically use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough user education, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security solutions consultants can help you to plan, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital IT resources in environments that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to build a network that can be securely utilized by local users as well as by teleworkers, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices allow you to assign and manage different access rights to various classes of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older security devices from all major manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration services, refer to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring Services for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or identify and mitigate the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is put on each protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. 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. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see 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 protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be utilized for this added form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register several validation devices. To find out more about Duo identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all types of external and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for rapidly and economically uncovering a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be managed by network security professionals with top credentials including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your business to evaluate your workflows and policies and review your IT infrastructure to allow you to implement top-level protection for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To view or download a white paper describing critical areas to focus on for protecting an IT environment that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient work-from-home environment for your Midland, Texas business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.