Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a significant effect on network architecture, cybersecurity, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of background assisting SMBs to design, configure, manage, optimize, and debug IT networks that incorporate work-from-home employees. Progent can assist your San Mateo organization to pick the right technologies and adhere to best practices in building and operating a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and returns maximum value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you over occasional IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent's consultants can assist San Mateo, California businesses to with any facet of creating a high-performing telecommuting environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing support, collaboration platform selection and deployment, public cloud connectivity, Help Desk augmentation, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Security and Compliance for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly use their personal devices and usually work in an unsecured physical area. This multiplies their vulnerability to malware threats and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the development of policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of IT security solutions experts can help your business to plan, implement and manage a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow companies to build a network environment that can be safely accessed by on-premises users as well as by an at-home workforce, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to configure and control different permissions to various classes of users and to scale your IT network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as cyber threats grow increasingly complex. Progent works with both new and legacy firewall devices from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, visit firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management Services for TelecommutersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to track the various devices used by an at-home workforce and either block or spot and mitigate modern threats like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is put on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the impacted endpoint from the network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints stay protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, see remote endpoint monitoring for remote workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for At-Home WorkersProgent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to defend against stolen passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation on Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected online account and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a unit that only you have and that uses a separate network channel. A broad selection of devices can be used as this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple verification devices. For details about ProSight Duo two-factor identity authentication services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for remote workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your information system to all classes of outside and local security threats for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can run online, automated security analysis software for quickly and economically detecting a broad range of security gaps that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by security experts with top credentials such as CISM, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your operations and governance policies and assess your network architecture to allow you to design the highest level of protection for your teleworkers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, prioritize, fix, and verify cybersecurity vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your network perimeter and your internal network in order to determine your current security posture. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides maximum cyber defense for on-prem, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn additional details about Progent's threat assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, refer to Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Products.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Environment
To view or download a white paper about critical things to concentrate on for securing a network that includes work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about building and maintaining a productive telecommuter solution for your San Mateo, California business, call 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.