Des Moines At Home Workforce Configuration Consultants

Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a major impact on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Des Moines company to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you past challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Des Moines, Iowa companies to with any aspect of building a high-functioning remote work ecosystem by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, public cloud integration, helpdesk services, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for Teleworkers
At-home staff members commonly utilize their personal computing devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, thorough end-user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran team of data security support consultants can help your business to design, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that guards critical IT assets in networks that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be safely accessed by on-premises users and by telecommuters, mobile users, suppliers, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to assign and control different access rights to various groups of users and to scale your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow more complex. Progent supports both current and legacy security appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration services, refer to firewall support expertise.

Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers utilized by an at-home workforce and either reject or identify and respond to modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is installed on each protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the impacted endpoint from the corporate network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint security monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured online account and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity via a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A broad selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication such as a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register several verification devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for telecommuters.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all classes of external and local security threats for a network that incorporates remote workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for quickly and economically detecting a wide variety of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by network security professionals with top credentials such as CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your workflows and policies and assess your WAN architecture to allow you to implement top-level security for your telecommuters.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver automated testing of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, rank, remediate, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's threat analysis services powered by on NodeZero's PEN test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

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

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about building and maintaining an efficient telecommuter environment for your Des Moines, Iowa company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.