Expanding your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can assist your Birmingham company to select the right technologies and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers top value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed expertise for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Birmingham, Alabama companies to with any aspect of building a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by providing infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Help Desk augmentation, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Security and Compliance for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members typically use their own computers and usually operate in an unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the development of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran team of IT security solutions consultants can help your business to plan, configure and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects critical IT assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to create a network environment that can be safely accessed by local users and by teleworkers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to configure and control appropriate access rights to different classes of users and to expand your network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older firewall devices from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration services, see firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring for At-Home WorkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices used by telecommuters and either reject or spot and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is installed on every secured endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the targeted endpoint from the network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints remain secure even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint security monitoring for telecommuters.

Two-factor Authentication Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo MFA Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, whenever you log into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can register several verification devices. For more information about ProSight Duo identity validation services, refer to Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all classes of outside and local security threats for an environment that includes an at-home workforce. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity analysis scanning for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by security professionals with top certifications including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your procedures and policies and assess your WAN architecture to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before threat actors can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to plan and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper about key areas to focus on for protecting a network that incorporates work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To contact Progent about building and managing an efficient telecommuter solution for your Birmingham, Alabama business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.