Tukwila Remote Workforce Connectivity Consulting and Support

Expanding your remote workforce may have a significant impact on IT architecture, security, and company workflows. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Tukwila organization to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you over occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Tukwila, Washington businesses to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, data security, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Security for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees typically use their personal computers and usually work in an unsecured physical environment. This increases their susceptibility to cyber attacks and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of data security solutions experts can assist you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT resources in environments that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewalls enable you to create a network that can be securely accessed by local users and by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, suppliers, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances permit you to assign and manage different access rights to different classes of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security as your company evolves and as cyber threats become more sophisticated. Progent supports both current and legacy security appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, refer to firewall integration and support services.

Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices utilized by telecommuters and either block or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify new threats on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint from the network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoints remain protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Progent's Duo MFA Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are asked to verify who you are via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for a network that includes teleworkers. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis software for quickly and economically detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your company to evaluate your procedures and policies and assess your IT architecture to allow you to implement the highest level of protection for your telecommuters.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can expose, rank, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

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

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To contact Progent about building and maintaining an efficient telecommuter environment for your Tukwila, Washington company, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.