Expanding your remote workforce may have a major effect on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Midland organization to select the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out mission-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can assist Midland, Texas companies to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing work-at-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Call Desk outsourcing, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Security and Compliance for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their own computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to malware threats and requires careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of cybersecurity solutions experts can assist your business to plan, deploy and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT resources in networks that include an at-home workforce.
Firewalls allow companies to create a network that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by at-home workers, mobile employees, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to configure and control appropriate access rights to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent works with both new and older security devices from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall support expertise, see firewall configuration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate computers used by an at-home workforce and either reject or spot and mitigate the latest cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the infected device from the network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is autonomous, endpoints stay protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo MFA Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be used for this second form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all types of external and local security attacks for an environment that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity analysis scanning for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be managed by security professionals with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your processes and governance policies and review your WAN infrastructure to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your remote workers.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your work-from-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 help you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional information about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To view or download a white paper about key areas to concentrate on for securing a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
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