Enlarging your telecommuter workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, security, and corporate workflows. Progent has two decades of background helping small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can help your Corpus Christi company to pick the appropriate tools and adhere to best practices in creating and maintaining a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns top business value. Progent can provide support services ranging from as-needed expertise for helping you over challenging technical bottlenecks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Corpus Christi, Texas organizations to with any facet of building a high-functioning remote work environment by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, helpdesk augmentation, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Security and Compliance for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly utilize their own computing devices and usually work in an unsecured physical environment. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user training, and the development of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran group of IT security support experts can help your business to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects vital information assets in networks that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be safely accessed by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile users, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices permit you to configure and manage appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as network attacks grow more complex. Progent works with both current and legacy security appliances from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Security Monitoring for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various computers utilized by an at-home workforce and either reject or identify and respond to modern cyber attacks such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day attacks on arrival. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the infected endpoint device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even if they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, go to remote endpoint monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for TeleworkersProgent's Duo authentication Service Plans incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against stolen passwords through the use of two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and enter your password you are requested to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be used as this second means of authentication including a smartphone or wearable, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You may designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of external and internal security threats for an environment that incorporates an at-home workforce. Progent can run online, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably detecting a broad range of security holes that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit experts, which can be managed by data security experts with top certifications including CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist you to evaluate your operations and policies and assess your WAN architecture to enable you to implement top-level security for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated threat assessment of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, rank, remediate, and confirm security vulnerabilities before malicious hackers can exploit them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to evaluate your present security posture. Progent can also assist you to harden your network security and can help you to design and implement a cohesive cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-premises, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional information about Progent's vulnerability assessment services based on on NodeZero's PEN test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for securing an IT environment that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing an efficient work-from-home solution for your Corpus Christi, Texas organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.