Birmingham At Home Workforce Connectivity Consultants

Expanding your remote workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting SMBs to plan, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Birmingham company to select the right tools and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand guidance for getting you over challenging IT roadblocks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Birmingham, Alabama businesses to with any facet of building a high-functioning telecommuting ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, Help Desk outsourcing, endpoint security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security for Telecommuters
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly use their own computing devices and usually work in an unsecured physical space. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of IT security solutions consultants can help you to plan, configure and manage a compliant security solution that protects critical IT resources in environments that incorporate remote workers.

Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be securely utilized by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to configure and manage different permissions to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and older firewall appliances from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, visit firewall integration and support expertise.

Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate devices utilized by telecommuters and either reject or spot and respond to modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the infected endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay secure even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, visit remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to confirm who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized for this added means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For more information about Duo identity authentication services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all types of external and local security attacks for an environment that includes remote workers. Progent can run online, automated cybersecurity analysis software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security audit consulting services, which can be provided by data security experts with top certifications including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your procedures and policies and assess your WAN architecture to allow you to design the highest level of security for your telecommuters.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, prioritize, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that streamlines management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest platform, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper about critical areas to concentrate on for securing an IT environment that includes work-from-home staff, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive telecommuter environment for your Birmingham, Alabama business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.