Enlarging your at-home workforce can have a significant effect on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has two decades of experience assisting SMBs to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Winston-Salem company to pick the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes collaboration and delivers maximum value. Progent offers support services ranging from on demand guidance for getting you over occasional technical bottlenecks to full project management to help you carry out mission-critical tasks.
Progent's consultants can help Winston-Salem, North Carolina companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk outsourcing, security and compliance, data protection solutions, and streamlined management.
Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home staff members typically use their own computing devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical environment. This situation increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive end-user training, and the creation of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of data security support experts can assist you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical IT assets in environments that include at-home workers.
Firewalls enable companies to build a network that can be securely accessed by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and the public. Modern firewall appliances allow you to configure and control different access rights to different groups of users and to expand your network and modify your security as your company evolves and as network attacks grow more complex. Progent works with both new and legacy firewall devices from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration services, see firewall configuration and support expertise.
Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices used by telecommuters and either reject or spot and mitigate modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to detect new threats before they can spread. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the impacted endpoint device from the network to contain the threat. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoints remain protected even when 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 security monitoring for an at-home workforce.
Progent's Duo MFA Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports single-tap identity confirmation on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and enter your password you are requested to confirm your identity via a unit that only you have and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can register several verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.
Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your network to all classes of external and internal security attacks for an environment that includes telecommuters. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for rapidly and affordably detecting a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be managed by data security professionals with top credentials including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your procedures and policies and assess your IT architecture to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.
Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge 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 expose, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your network security and can help you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn more information about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.
Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To read or download a white paper about key areas to focus on for protecting a network that incorporates work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)
Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
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