Enlarging your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on network infrastructure, security, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your St. Paul company to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent can help St. Paul, Minnesota organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, helpdesk services, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Security for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers typically utilize their personal computers and often operate in an unsecured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to malware attacks and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of data security support consultants can assist you to plan, deploy and manage a compliant security solution that guards vital IT assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to build a network 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 appliances permit you to assign and control appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to scale your network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent supports both current and legacy firewall devices from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, refer to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various computers used by telecommuters and either reject or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on each protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the infected endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints stay secure even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this added form of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register multiple validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security threats for a network that includes telecommuters. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced credentials including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your business to evaluate your operations and governance policies and review your network infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection 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 can deliver automated testing of your at-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks so you can expose, rank, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Products.

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

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your St. Paul, Minnesota company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.