Enlarging your remote workforce can have a major effect on network architecture, security/compliance, and company workflows. Progent has two decades of background helping SMBs to plan, deploy, administer, optimize, and debug IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can help your Londrina organization to pick the appropriate tools and follow best practices in building and maintaining a safe virtual solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and returns maximum business value. Progent can provide services ranging from as-needed guidance for helping you past challenging IT roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can help Londrina, Paraná organizations to with any aspect of creating a high-performing telecommuting environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, data security, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Security for Teleworkers
At-home employees commonly utilize their personal computing devices and often work in an unsecured physical area. This situation increases their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran team of IT security support experts can assist your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant security solution that guards critical IT resources in environments that include telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable you to create a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by telecommuters, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and manage different permissions to various classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats become increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and legacy security devices from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support services, refer to firewall support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management Services for TeleworkersOnline Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various devices utilized by teleworkers and either block or spot and mitigate the latest threats such as ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a lightweight agent is put on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing advanced AI technology from SentinelOne to detect new threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring instantly disconnects the targeted endpoint from the corporate network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight ASM software agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. Using 2FA, whenever you log into a secured application and enter your password you are asked to verify your identity on a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You may register multiple verification devices. To learn more about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Cisco 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 external and local security attacks for a network that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory scanning for quickly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security assessment experts, which can be provided by data security professionals with advanced certifications such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can assist your company to evaluate your workflows and governance policies and assess your IT infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your remote workers.

NodeZero Pen Testing for Work-from-Home EnpointsHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal network in order to evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to harden your existing network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that streamlines management and delivers maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's pentest products, visit Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To view or download a white paper describing critical things to concentrate on for securing a network that supports telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining a productive telecommuter environment for your Londrina, Paraná organization, call 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.