St. Paul At Home Workers Solutions Consulting and Support

Enlarging your remote workforce can have a major effect on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and company culture. Progent has 20 years of experience helping businesses of all sizes to design, configure, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support work-from-home employees. Progent can help your St. Paul company to select the right tools and adhere to leading practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual office solution for telecommuters that facilitates collaboration and delivers top value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed expertise for getting you past occasional technical roadblocks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical tasks.

Progent can assist St. Paul, Minnesota businesses to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by delivering infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, helpdesk services, cybersecurity, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Cybersecurity for Teleworkers
Work-from-Home workers typically utilize their personal devices and usually work in an unsecured physical environment. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough user training, and the development of security policies based on best practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity solutions experts can help you to plan, deploy and maintain an effective security solution that protects critical information resources in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewalls allow companies to build a network that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by teleworkers, mobile workers, vendors, customers, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to different classes of users and to expand your IT network and modify your cybersecurity posture as your company evolves and as cyber threats grow more complex. Progent supports both current and legacy security appliances from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. For details about Progent's firewall configuration services, go to firewall integration and support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the various computers used by teleworkers and either block or identify and respond to modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, watching all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning and full execution context from SentinelOne to identify new attacks at inception. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the targeted device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoint devices remain protected even when they are offline. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for remote workers.

Progent's Duo authentication Service Plans utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo supports one-tap identity verification on Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you log into a protected online account and enter your password you are asked to verify who you are on a device that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation including an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You may designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo identity authentication services, refer to Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for an at-home workforce.

Security Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for a network that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run online, automated security inventory software for quickly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your business to evaluate your processes and governance policies and assess your IT architecture to enable you to design top-level protection for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you identify, prioritize, fix, and confirm security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT assets. To learn additional details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper about critical areas to focus on for securing a network that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for At-Home Worker Support Services
To contact Progent about building and maintaining an efficient work-from-home solution for your St. Paul, Minnesota organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.