Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to design, deploy, administer, tune, and debug IT networks that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Stamford company to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns top value. Progent can provide services that go from on demand guidance for getting you over challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.
Progent can help Stamford, Connecticut companies to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-at-home environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.
Security and Compliance for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically utilize their personal devices and usually work in an unsecured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious configuration of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security support experts can help your business to plan, implement and manage an effective security solution that guards critical IT assets in environments that incorporate remote workers.
Firewalls enable you to create a network that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by telecommuters, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage different access rights to different classes of users and to scale your network and adjust your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats become more sophisticated. Progent works with both new and legacy security devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall support expertise, go to firewall support expertise.
Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the disparate devices used by at-home workers and either block or identify and mitigate the latest cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and using advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to detect new threats on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the infected endpoint device from the network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM 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 ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.
Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register several validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.
Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for an environment that includes remote workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by network security experts with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your processes and governance policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your an at-home workforce.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To view or download a white paper describing critical things to concentrate on for protecting a network that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
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