Expanding your remote workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that support work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your Raleigh company to select the appropriate tools and follow leading practices in building and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you over occasional IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Raleigh, North Caroline organizations to succeed with any aspect of building a high-functioning work-from-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, data security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Security and Compliance for Telecommuters
At-home employees typically use their personal computing devices and often work in an unsecured physical area. This situation multiplies their vulnerability to cyber attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of cybersecurity solutions experts can help your business to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that protects vital IT resources in networks that include remote workers.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to create a network that can be safely accessed by local users and by telecommuters, mobile employees, vendors, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances permit you to configure and manage appropriate permissions to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your security as your business evolves and as cyber threats become more sophisticated. Progent supports both new and legacy firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, see firewall integration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management Services for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the disparate devices used by an at-home workforce and either reject or identify and respond to the latest threats such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the impacted endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad selection of devices can be utilized as this added form of authentication including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all types of outside and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can deploy remote, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security gaps that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be provided by data security experts with advanced credentials including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your processes and policies and review your network architecture to allow you to design the highest level of security for your an at-home workforce.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your at-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper about key things to concentrate on for protecting a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about creating and managing an efficient telecommuter solution for your Raleigh, North Caroline business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.