Enlarging your remote workforce may have a major effect on IT architecture, security/compliance, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting SMBs to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Curitiba organization to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for helping you past occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Curitiba, Paraná organizations to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Configuring the network infrastructure required for an at-home workforce can be especially challenging if you must manage a combination of personal hardware such as PCs and laptops, routers, and Wi-Fi appliances from various vendors and with a mix of OS software and firmware releases. Progent's experience delivering remote support for both outdated as well as modern technologies in remote office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing network infrastructure and offers fast access to top-tire consultants for implement essential updates. Support services offered by Progent to help you to implement a productive work-at-home ecosystem include:

  • Virtual Private Network technology allows you to create a safe connection for authorized at-home workers to use IT resources located at your company datacenter or in a public cloud. Progent can help you to configure and manage VPN access between your at-home workforce and your various IT resources by providing remote VPN integration consulting. For organizations using Cisco's ASA firewalls, Progent's Cisco ASA Firewall consultants can assist your at-home workers to set up Cisco's popular AnyConnect client software for safe VPN connections for a wide selection of endpoint devices including Windows, Mac, iOS, Linux, and Google Android.
  • Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) platforms enable a teleworker to view and use a remote computer's desktop. This gives IT managers more control over the computing ecosystem of telecommuters and ensures remote users a familiar experience. Progent's VDI services include Windows Remote Desktop integration and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops VDI expertise.
  • Routers attach home networks to the Internet and support VPN connections, local Wi-Fi networks, and firewall services. Progent can provide expert online support for setting up home routers from all major manufacturers. See router configuration services from Cisco-certified experts.
  • Home Wi-Fi networks, typically shared by an entire household and visitors, are frequently used by telecommuters to connect to their router for work. This can create throughput and cybersecurity issues. Progent can help you to resolve these issues by delivering services that include Cisco Aironet integration consulting, Cisco Meraki WiFi deployment consulting, and Ubiquiti Unifi wireless access point integration help.
  • Internet connectivity methods impact the speed and availability of connections between at-home workers and the company data center. Line-of-business applications may demand backup Internet access in the event the primary connection breaks. Progent can provide guidance for picking Internet service providers, picking appropriate service offerings, and integrating redundant Internet connections. Refer to Internet connectivity integration services.

VoIP Solutions for Telecommuters
Extending the company phone environment to accommodate remote users is vital to supporting a productive work-at-home solution. A variety of cloud-based VoIP products are used by small and mid-size businesses to server teleworkers. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's modern or legacy products for IP voice solutions. Progent can assist businesses of any size to design or maintain a remote VoIP environment that delivers the versatility, convenience and security required for at-home workers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants can provide advanced support to help organizations tune their existing Cisco VoIP systems to support an expanding remote workforce.

  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Cisco Unified CM or CUCM) delivers enterprise IP telephony features to devices like IP phones, media processing products, Voice over IP gateways, and mixed media applications used across the network. Unified Communications Manager supports additional combined media services such as messaging, voice/video conferencing, and customer interaction networks. For more information about Progent's CUCM support, see CUCM expertise.
  • CallManager is Cisco's legacy call-processing agent and has been superseded by CUCM. Progent can assist your company to support your existing CallManager deployment or upgrade smoothly to Cisco's current IP telephony solutions. For details about Progent's expertise for Cisco CallManager and Cisco's other early VoIP platforms, visit Cisco CallManager consulting services.
  • Cisco IP Gateways provide integration with PSTN networks and with clients operating beyond the corporate firewall like telecommuters. Progent offers expert support for Cisco's legacy IP gateways including the UC520, UC540 and UC560 series and for current Cisco Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) gateways. See Cisco SIP gateway integration expertise.
  • Other VoIP Platforms supported by Progent's consultants include Vonage, Intermedia Unite and 8x8. Progent can help you to update your WAN infrastructure to work with these VoIP solutions and provide as-needed integration and troubleshooting services.

Voice/Video Conferencing for Remote Workers
A wide selection of video conferencing products from major vendors support virtual discussions, video conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both onsite users and teleworkers. Many companies use a mix of conferencing products to accommodate their different partners and clients. Progent's communications experts can assist your organization to manage your existing conferencing environment and optimize the experience of your at-home workforce.

  • Skype for Business is Microsoft's popular unified communications platform that supports presence, instant messaging, audio and video conferencing plus the transparent integration of these functions within Office desktop and Microsoft 365 productivity software such as PowerPoint, Word, Excel and Outlook. Progent can provide the skills of Microsoft-certified specialists who can help you to deploy and maintain Skype for Business clients to accommodate your remote workforce. To learn more about Progent's support services for Skype for Business, see Skype for Business integration services.
  • FaceTime is Apple's group video calling platform for iOS, iPadOS, iPod and macOS computers and smartphones. FaceTime works over Wi-Fi or cellular Internet connections. Current editions of FaceTime allow as many as 32 simultaneous users for video calls. For details about Progent's consulting services for Apple FaceTime, visit Progent's FaceTime configuration expertise.
  • Webex Meeting Center supports remote conferencing for most desktop or mobile devices. Delivered through Cisco's Webex Cloud, Webex capabilities include sharing discrete content or screens, presentations that incorporate rich media such as Microsoft PowerPoint, network-based capture, plus editing and playback for future reference. To learn more about Progent's consulting expertise for Cisco Webex as well as for other IP video products from Cisco, visit Progent's Webex Meeting Center support services.
  • Teams is Microsoft's follow-up for Skype for Business. Teams provides a hub for conferencing, contacts, and information with capabilities that include video calling, threaded chat, plus data sharing. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Teams and for additional Microsoft 365 apps, refer to Progent's Microsoft Teams consulting services.
  • Additional Voice/Video Conferencing Apps supported by Progent's conferencing experts include Google Meet, Amazon Chime, Zoom, and Slack. Progent can deliver configuration and debugging expertise for these conferencing platforms and assist you to optimize your network infrastructure to host them.

Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for At-Home Workers
Microsoft's collaboration products are tightly integrated with Microsoft's familiar Office families, offering a rich ecosystem of applications that create a consistent user interface for exchanging information throughout a corporate network and on a wide selection of endpoint computers. Progent has provided online consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their original releases and can help businesses to configure these critical collaboration platforms to maximize the productivity of your remote workers.

Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office suite, providing a rich ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide variety of endpoint devices. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange since their initial releases and can help at-home workers set up and use these flagship collaboration platforms to maximize productivity.

Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium Solutions Consultants for TelecommutersMicrosoft Teams works with Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to deliver real-time collaboration. Developed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium can enable chat, video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, as well as file and application sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Entra (previously called Azure Active Directory) for delivering its full range of capabilities. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams, visit solution design and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams.

SharePoint Integration Experts for Remote WorkersSharePoint utilizes web sites to allow collaboration and knowledge sharing by providing policy-driven access to data, business processes, and utilities for looking through company-wide business data. SharePoint permits you to create protected web portals that allows remote workforce to see and update consolidated corporate intelligence via Wikis, Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts. For details about Progent's SharePoint support services, go to SharePoint integration and application development expertise.

Exchange Deployment Experts for At-Home WorkersExchange and Exchange Online offer secure collaboration features including public folders, shared mailboxes, and shared calendars and contacts. Progent's Microsoft certified Exchange experts can show you how to activate and utilize these features for your at-home workers. To learn about Progent's Exchange consulting expertise, visit planning and configuration expertise for Exchange.

Microsoft Onedrive Deployment Consultants for At-Home WorkersOneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud file hosting and synchronization service, comparable to GoogleDrive. Remote workers can store files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues anywhere can access them securely through a web browser. Provided with Office 365, OneDrive allows home employees to jointly author documents. Revisions created offline are automatically synced when you go back online. To find out about Progent's consulting expertise for OneDrive, refer to Microsoft Onedrive configuration experts.

Cloud Integration Services for Remote Workers
Progent can provide fast and affordable online assistance for enabling businesses to build, manage and troubleshoot cohesive hybrid network architectures that combine physical data centers, teleworkers, branch offices, plus public cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all types of cloud service delivery including Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service. Progent can help telecommuters resolve problems with public cloud access, identity, and security.

Azure Integration Services for TeleworkersMicrosoft Azure is a leading family of cloud services that allows you to utilize infrastructure, servers, and critical apps hosted on Microsoft's extensive cloud. Microsoft Azure offers more than one hundred services services such as the ability to host Windows and Linux-based VMs, on-demand cloud storage, email and messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and backup/restore. Progent can assist your organization to set up virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure cloud-based storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure Active Directory, and design backup and recovery solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to create protected connections to Azure services for telecommuters by setting up and troubleshooting firewall appliances and VPN tunnels. To learn about Progent's support services for Azure, refer to Microsoft Azure consulting.

Microsoft 365 Integration Services for At-Home WorkersMicrosoft 365, previously branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular suite of client productivity applications and cloud-based services available on a subscription basis. Office apps and cloud services are marketed in a variety of bundles intended for users ranging from individuals and households to major corporations. Progent offers fast and easy online access to experts knowledgeable about Microsoft 365-compatible endpoints based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent's experts can help your business to assess the numerous subscription plans available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 apps for your remote workers to achieve top business value. To find out about Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365, visit Microsoft 365 consulting support.

Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Integration for At-Home WorkersExchange Online is among the most popular applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product suite. Exchange Online offers the advantages of lower costs for data center infrastructure, easier management, dynamic scaling, high availability, and other benefits associated with cloud computing. Microsoft has engineered Exchange Online to run transparently with local deployments of Exchange, allowing customers to create hybrid networks. Progent's Exchange experts can provide as-needed assistance to get you through tough technical roadblocks and also offer comprehensive project management outsourcing to make sure your at-home workers have convenient and safe access to your Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's consulting services for Exchange Online, refer to Exchange Online integration and support consulting.

Amazon AWS Integration Services for At-Home WorkersAmazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud computing arena and is the world's top source of cloud services. Progent can provide quick and affordable online contact with cloud connectivity experts who can assist your business to design, deploy, maintain, and debug hybrid information networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other public clouds like Microsoft Azure. Progent also offers access to Cisco-certified CCIE networking experts to assist your company to create a high-availability network model to make sure your users have a consistent computing environment whether they are working from your headquarters, a remote branch, at home, or on the move. For information about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, visit Amazon AWS consulting services.

Google Cloud Platform Integration for At-Home WorkersGoogle Cloud is a popular suite of public cloud services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's certified Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco experts can help your business to extend your existing IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database consultants can show you how to make your critical apps cloud ready so your teleworkers can take full advantage of Google Cloud Platform services. Progent's consultants can help you to set up VMs on Google Cloud Compute Engine, design an efficient storage system with GCP Storage services, and streamline identity management for telecommuters with GCP Cloud Identity services. Progent's consultants can also assist your business to utilize GCP's management technology to control and track your Google Cloud ecosystem. For details, visit Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consulting services.

Help Desk Call Center Services for Teleworkers
A sudden, enterprise-wide changeover to a telecommuter business model, which could be driven by a pandemic or as part of a disaster recovery process, can overwhelm even a well-staffed in-house Call Center. Progent's Help Desk Call Center services allow businesses to outsource or expand their Call Center with Progent's remote Technical Response Center services.

  • Progent's Standard Call Desk support services leverage Progent's extensive team of online technical support specialists along with world-class trouble ticketing and follow-up technology to offer an affordable, state-of-the-art Call Desk. Progent's Standard Help Desk Services offer a comprehensive solution that addresses all aspects of online Level 1 PC support from initial service requests through ticket generation, desktop sharing, issue resolution, and incident reporting. A web-based User's Service Portal allows from-home workers to check or revise the status of their current trouble tickets, enter information, and append screen captures or attachments. Support services are provided at a substantial discount off Progent's normal Level 1 desktop support charges, and Progent offers the option of fast escalation to Level 2 and Level 3 support specialists to deal with advanced issues. To learn more, see Progent's Standard Helpdesk Services outsourcing for small and mid-size companies.
  • Progent's Help Desk Augmentation Service allows you to supplement your existing Help Desk Call Center team by splitting responsibilities for Call Center services seamlessly between your regular IT support personnel and Progent's nationwide roster of PC support technicians and subject matter specialists. Progent's co-managed Call Center service uses a collective support model utilizing the leading professional services automation tool for handling service requests and ticketing, assigning responsibility, monitoring progress, and producing management reports. To find out how Progent's Help Desk Call Center Supplementation Services can enable your business to deliver best-in-class IT support to your telecommuters, visit Progent's Call Desk augmentation Services.

Security for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of data security support experts can assist your business to design, configure and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital information assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to build a network environment that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile users, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to various classes of users and to scale your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall devices from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration services, go to firewall support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is put on every secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art AI technology from SentinelOne to identify new attacks on arrival. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the targeted device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of external and local security threats for an environment that incorporates remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for rapidly and economically detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be provided by network security professionals with top credentials including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your business to audit your workflows and governance policies and review your IT infrastructure to allow you to implement the highest level of security for your teleworkers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

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

Data Protection Solutions for Remote Workers
The field of Data Protection covers backing up and restoring vital information in order to avoid data loss and reduce recovery time and effort in case of storage failures due to hardware issues, programming hiccups, operator error, cyber attack, or other causes. Dependable data protection solutions can be especially difficult to architect and manage in hybrid environments that incorporate in-house data centers, public clouds, and at-home workers.

  • Backup/Restore strategies for at-home workers must cover diverse types of user-owned endpoints. Progent offers quick online help from experts knowledgeable about a broad range of platforms for backing up Microsoft Windows, Apple and Linux/UNIX powered servers and desktops as well as notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Leading backup/restore products maintained by Progent's data protection consultants include Barracuda Backup, Azure Backup, Symantec Backup Exec, CrashPlan, Mozy, and Time Machine. To back up data spread throughout a wide area network, Progent can provide ProSight Data Protection Services (DPS), a managed backup/recovery service that utilizes cloud-based storage and features fine-grained recovery and unified management capabilities.
  • Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies often envision scenarios that call for a temporary switch to an at-home workforce. Progent's expert disaster recovery preparedness consultants and business continuity consultants can assist your company to develop, document and test a DR/BC strategy that includes the logistics of switching to telecommuting.

Unified Management for Teleworkers
Microsoft has rebranded and reshuffled its endpoint management products under the name Endpoint Manager, which encompasses Intune for cloud-based management of remote endpoints and Configuration Manager for managing on-premises endpoints. Endpoint Manager offers a unified environment for protecting corporate information by managing local, mobile, and at-home endpoints.

Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also features Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud-based service for managing and protecting remote computers and applications. Remote endpoint devices can be personally owned or company owned. Network administrators managing the enrolled endpoint devices of telecommuters can utilize Intune to deploy and authenticate applications on managed devices, push updates and certificates, set up policies for permission to access data and networks, set passwords, establish VPN tunnels, determine how telecommuters share data, establish threat defense, ensure compliance, and erase sensitive data from missing, stolen or deactivated endpoint devices. Microsoft Intune works with Apple iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS endpoints. For details about Intune and to find out how Progent can help you to use Microsoft's Endpoint Management to manage the endpoint computers of your telecommuters, see Intune teleworker endpoint management experts.

VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is a feature-rich centralized MDM platform that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoint devices current and secure. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch technology for unified endpoint management combined with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery platform for authorization control, application management, and configuration management of endpoints. Workspace ONE operates with endpoints based on Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or popular distributions of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud-based service or as an on-premises deployment through a perpetual license. Key capabilities of VMware Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of out-of-the-box laptops, quick onboarding of new employees, policy set up and enforcement for all categories of endpoints, unifies reporting and analytics, email encryption, and seamless integration with Microsoft applications and cloud services. For details about Progent's expertise for VMware Workspace ONE, refer to VMware Workspace ONE mobile device management consultants.

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive telecommuter solution for your Curitiba, Paraná company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.