Allentown At Home Workforce Integration Consulting Partner

Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting SMBs to design, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Allentown organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates collaboration and returns maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand expertise for getting you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Allentown, Pennsylvania businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work environment by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk services, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.

Security for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their personal computers and often work in an unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to malware attacks and requires judicious deployment of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user education, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's veteran group of cybersecurity support experts can assist your business to design, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in environments that include at-home workers.

Firewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by at-home workers, mobile users, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and control different permissions to different groups of users and to expand your network and modify your security as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and older security appliances from all major manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall integration expertise, see firewall integration and support services.

Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate devices utilized by teleworkers and either block or spot and mitigate the latest threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify new attacks before they can spread. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Progent's Duo authentication Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all types of external and local security attacks for a network that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can run remote, automated cybersecurity analysis software for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be provided by data security professionals with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to evaluate your processes and governance policies and review your WAN architecture to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your at-home workers.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can expose, prioritize, remediate, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for securing a network that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive work-from-home environment for your Allentown, Pennsylvania company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.