Portland Teleworkers Solutions Consulting Partner

Enlarging your remote workforce may have a significant impact on network architecture, security, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Portland organization to select the right technologies and adhere to best practices in building and operating a secure virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide support services that go from on demand guidance for helping you past occasional IT roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can assist Portland, Oregon companies to with any facet of creating a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, helpdesk services, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home employees typically use their personal computers and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of IT security solutions consultants can assist your business to plan, deploy and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that protects vital information resources in networks that include telecommuters.

Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be securely utilized by local users and by at-home workers, mobile users, suppliers, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances allow you to assign and control different permissions to various classes of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats become more complex. Progent supports both current and older security devices from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration services, see firewall integration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various computers utilized by remote workers and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and using advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to identify new attacks at inception. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly isolates the infected endpoint device from the network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay secure even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, visit remote endpoint security monitoring for telecommuters.

Progent's Duo MFA Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm your identity via a device that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for at-home workers.

Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated security inventory scanning for quickly and economically uncovering a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be managed by network security professionals with advanced credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your processes and governance policies and assess your network infrastructure 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 can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, fix, and confirm cybersecurity vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to perform thorough penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest products, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper about critical areas to focus on for securing an IT environment that includes telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient telecommuter environment for your Portland, Oregon company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.