Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant impact on network architecture, security, and company culture. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to design, configure, manage, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Santa Cruz company to select the right technologies and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual ecosystem for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers top business value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist Santa Cruz, California businesses to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home ecosystem by delivering network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud integration, Call Desk services, data security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Security and Compliance for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home (WFH) workers commonly use their personal devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires judicious configuration of firewalls, anti-malware tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, extensive user training, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of IT security solutions consultants can help your business to design, configure and manage a compliant security solution that protects vital information assets in networks that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow you to build a network environment that can be securely accessed by local users as well as by telecommuters, mobile users, vendors, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to configure and manage appropriate permissions to various groups of users and to expand your network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as network attacks grow more complex. Progent supports both new and older security devices from all leading manufacturers like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support expertise, visit firewall support services.

Remote Security Monitoring for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the disparate computers used by an at-home workforce and either reject or identify and mitigate modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each protected endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the impacted device from the corporate network to contain the malware. Because the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices remain protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for telecommuters.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are requested to verify who you are on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all classes of outside and local security attacks for an environment that includes at-home workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated security analysis scanning for quickly and economically detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be provided by network security professionals with top certifications such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your company to audit your procedures and governance policies and assess your IT architecture to enable you to implement top-level security for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, rank, fix, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional information about Progent's threat assessment solutions powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

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

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing an efficient telecommuter environment for your Santa Cruz, California business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.