Expanding your telecommuter workforce can have a significant impact on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Adelaide organization to select the right tools and follow leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent offers support services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.
Progent's consultants can help Adelaide, South Australia businesses to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-from-home environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.
Network Infrastructure for an At-Home Workforce
Integrating the network infrastructure needed to support a remote work environment can be especially challenging if you must manage a combination of worker-owned hardware like desktop computers and laptops, Internet routers, and Wi-Fi APs from an assortment of manufacturers and with a variety of OS software and firmware levels. Progent's background delivering remote help for both legacy and modern IT products in virtual office solutions enables you to make efficient use of your existing infrastructure and offers ready access to top-tire consultants for implement necessary upgrades. Services offered by Progent to assist your company to create a productive telecommuting infrastructure include:
VoIP Solutions for Teleworkers
Expanding the company phone system to accommodate teleworkers is critical to supporting an effective at-home workforce. A broad range of cloud-based VoIP platforms are popular with SMBs to support telecommuters. Many enterprises depend on Cisco's current or legacy platforms for IP voice solutions. Progent can help organizations of any size to plan or tune a remote IP voice service that delivers the versatility, convenience and security required for teleworkers. Progent's Cisco-certified CCIE Voice consultants offer advanced support to help businesses optimize their existing Cisco VoIP environments to handle an expanding at-home workforce.
Voice/Video Conferencing for Telecommuters
A wide selection of video conferencing platforms from leading vendors enable online discussions, video conferencing, chat sessions, and screen/content sharing for both onsite workers and telecommuters. Many organizations use multiple conferencing products to accommodate their different partners and clients. Progent can help you to manage your existing voice/video conferencing ecosystem and optimize the engagement of your at-home employees.
Microsoft Integrated Collaboration Platforms for At-Home Workers
Microsoft's collaboration platforms are tightly integrated with Microsoft's popular Office and Microsoft 365 families, offering a powerful ecosystem of applications that deliver a consistent user experience for sharing information across multiple sites and on a wide range of endpoints. Progent has provided remote consulting services for SharePoint and Exchange Server since their first publication and can assist businesses to tune these critical collaboration products to optimize the productivity of your at-home 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 works with Microsoft 365 and supports third-party cloud services to provide real-time collaboration. Designed as a replacement for Skype for Business Online, Microsoft Teams can support chat, audio/video meetings that include screen sharing, phone calls, cloud voicemail, group email, plus file and app sharing. Teams is tightly integrated with Microsoft 365 and depends on Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Azure Entra (formerly branded Azure Active Directory) for delivering its full range of capabilities. For details about Progent's support services for Microsoft Teams, visit planning and configuration expertise for Microsoft Teams and Teams Premium.
SharePoint uses web entities to enable collaboration and knowledge delivery by offering policy-driven delivery of content, business processes, and tools for looking through enterprise-wide business data. SharePoint allows you to create secure web portals that enables at-home workforce to see and edit consolidated business intelligence by means of Intranets (Wikis), Blogs, social sites, and Web Parts (Widgets). To find out about Progent's SharePoint consulting services, refer to SharePoint integration and application development consulting.
Exchange 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, refer to integration consulting for Microsoft Exchange Server.
OneDrive is Microsoft�s shared cloud storage service, similar to GoogleDrive. At-home users can save files to the OneDrive service, and colleagues can share them safely via a web browser. Provided with Microsoft 365, OneDrive enables home workers to co-edit documents. Revisions made offline are uploaded when you go back online. For details about Progent's expertise for Microsoft OneDrive, visit Microsoft Onedrive integration consulting.
Cloud Integration for At-Home Workers
Progent can provide affordable online assistance for helping organizations to create, manage and optimize cohesive hybrid network models that combine internal data centers, telecommuters, branches, plus cloud resources. Progent can provide expertise for all types of public cloud service such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service (SaaS). Progent can help at-home workers fix problems with public cloud connectivity, identity, and security.
Azure is a popular platform for cloud services that enables you to use IT infrastructure, virtual servers, and critical applications running on Microsoft's massive cloud. Microsoft Azure features over 100 services services such as hosting for Windows and Linux-powered VMs, scalable cloud storage, email and messaging, application development with Visual Studio, and data backup. Progent can help your organization to deploy virtual machines on Azure Virtual Machines, configure storage on Azure Storage services, streamline identity control with Azure AD, and plan backup and restore solutions with Azure Backup. Progent's cloud experts can also show you how to establish protected access to Azure services for at-home workers by configuring and troubleshooting firewalls and VPN tunnels. For details about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft Azure, see Azure consulting services.
Microsoft 365, formerly branded Office 365, is Microsoft's popular family of business productivity software and cloud-based services available by subscription. Microsoft apps and cloud services are provided in a variety of plans intended for users ranging from individuals and small offices to large enterprises. Progent offers fast and affordable online access to consultants familiar with Microsoft 365-compatible clients based on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Google Android operating systems. Progent can assist you to assess the various subscription plans available for Microsoft 365 and configure 365 applications for your remote workers to achieve top business value. For information about Progent's consulting expertise for Microsoft 365, see Microsoft 365 integration expertise.
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online is among the most popular cloud-based applications in Azure-hosted Microsoft 365 product line. Exchange Online offers the benefits of lower costs for physical infrastructure, easier management, on-demand scaling, high availability, and additional benefits inherent with cloud computing. Microsoft has designed Exchange Online to run seamlessly with on-premises deployments of Exchange, allowing customers to build hybrid information systems. Progent's Exchange consultants are available for occasional assistance to get you past challenging IT bottlenecks and also offer comprehensive project management services to ensure your at-home workers have easy and safe access to your Microsoft 365 Exchange Online deployment. For details Progent's expertise for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, visit Microsoft 365 Exchange Online configuration and support expertise.
Amazon AWS is a pioneer in the public cloud arena and is the world's biggest provider of cloud services. Progent offers rapid and economical online contact with cloud integration experts who can help your business to plan, deploy, maintain, and debug hybrid IT networks that incorporate Amazon AWS cloud-based services with on-premises resources and with other popular cloud platforms such as Azure. Progent also offers the skills of Cisco-certified CCIE networking consultants to assist your company to build a high-uptime network architecture so your users have a consistent computing environment regardless of whether they are working from your headquarters, a branch office, from home, or on the road. For details about Progent's support services for Amazon AWS, see Amazon AWS consulting services.
Google Cloud Platform is a leading suite of cloud computing services that provides Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service products. Progent's Microsoft, Linux, and Cisco consulting experts can help you to extend your current IT resources with the Google Cloud Platform, and Progent's database experts can help you make your critical apps cloud friendly so your telecommuters can take full advantage of Google Cloud services. Progent can help your business to deploy VMs on Google Cloud Compute Engine, plan an efficient storage system with GCP Storage, and simplify identity control for telecommuters with Google Cloud Identity services. Progent's consultants can also assist you to use GCP's unified management tools to administer and monitor your Google Cloud ecosystem. To find out, go to Google Cloud Platform integration expertise.
Help Desk Call Center Services for Teleworkers
A fast, enterprise-wide switchover to a from-home business model, which could be driven by an epidemic or as a component of a disaster recovery/business continuity process, can overstretch even a high-performing in-house Call Center. Progent's Help Desk services allow businesses of any size to outsource or supplement their Help Desk Call Center with Progent's online Technical Response Center (TRC) team.
Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home workers commonly utilize their own devices and usually operate in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires careful configuration of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of cybersecurity solutions experts can assist you to plan, configure and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT resources in environments that incorporate remote workers.
Firewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile users, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to configure and control different access rights to various groups of users and to expand your IT network and adjust your security profile as your business evolves and as network attacks become more sophisticated. Progent works with both new and legacy firewall appliances from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, go to firewall integration and support services.
Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers utilized by at-home workers and either block or spot and mitigate modern threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight software agent is installed on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted device from the corporate network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and local security threats for an environment that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for quickly and economically uncovering a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security professionals with top credentials including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your procedures and policies and review your IT architecture to allow you to design top-level security for your an at-home workforce.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated threat assessment of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability assessment services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.
Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To view or download a white paper describing key areas to concentrate on for securing an IT environment that includes telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Data Protection for Telecommuters
Data Protection covers backing up and restoring vital information in order to avoid data loss and minimize restoration time in the event of storage failures due to equipment issues, software hiccups, operator error, malware, or other causes. Dependable data protection solutions can be particularly difficult to design and maintain in hybrid environments that combine in-house data centers, cloud resources, and an at-home workforce.
Unified Management for At-Home Workers
Microsoft has renamed and rebundled its endpoint management products under the title Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which includes Intune for cloud management of mobile and remote devices and Configuration Manager for managing local endpoints. Microsoft Endpoint Manager offers a centralized platform for protecting critical information by managing local, mobile, and at-home endpoint devices.
Intune
Intune is a component of Microsoft's Endpoint Management suite that also includes Microsoft Configuration Manager. Intune is a cloud service for managing and protecting mobile devices and software. Remote endpoint devices can be user owned or company owned. IT admins managing the enrolled endpoint computers of telecommuters can use Intune to provision and validate applications on devices, push patches and certificates, configure rules for accessing data and resources, set passwords, create VPN tunnels, determine how home-based workers share data, set up threat defense, verify security compliance, and wipe corporate information from missing, stolen or deactivated endpoint devices. Intune can be used with iOS, Google Android, Windows, and macOS/OS X endpoints. For details about Intune and how Progent can help you to use this platform to administer the endpoint devices of your at-home workers, go to Intune mobile endpoint management experts.
VMware Workspace ONE
VMware Workspace ONE is an advanced centralized Mobile Device Management platform that allows network administrators to keep remote endpoints current and protected. Workspace ONE uses VMware AirWatch for centralized endpoint management along with VMware's Horizon virtual application delivery technology for access control, application management, and configuration management of endpoints. Workspace ONE operates with devices powered by Windows 10, macOS, Apple iOS, Google Android, Chrome OS, or leading distros of Linux. VMware Workspace ONE is offered by subscription as a cloud service or as an on-site deployment via a perpetual license. Key capabilities of Workspace ONE include fast remote deployment of new notebooks, quick onboarding of new users, policy set up and enforcement for all classes of endpoints, aggregated management reporting and performance analytics, an email encryption gateway, and tight integration with Microsoft apps and cloud services. To find out about Progent's support services for VMware Workspace ONE, visit VMware Workspace ONE remote endpoint management consultants.
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