Expanding your remote workforce may have a major impact on network infrastructure, security, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to plan, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your The Woodlands organization to pick the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent offers support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist The Woodlands, Texas companies to with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk services, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
At-home employees typically use their personal computing devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical area. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of data security solutions consultants can assist your business to design, deploy and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital information assets in environments that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to create a network that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by telecommuters, 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 scale your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks grow more sophisticated. Progent supports both new and legacy firewall appliances from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall integration expertise, see firewall support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring Services for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by telecommuters and either block or identify and mitigate modern threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on each secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new threats before they can spread. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the infected endpoint device from the network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used as this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, go to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security attacks for an environment that includes an at-home workforce. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for rapidly and economically uncovering a broad range of security gaps that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by data security experts with top credentials such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to evaluate your workflows and policies and review your IT infrastructure to allow you to design top-level protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

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

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your The Woodlands, Texas organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.