Expanding your at-home workforce can have a significant impact on IT architecture, security, and corporate processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, configure, administer, tune, and debug IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can assist your Mexico City company to pick the appropriate technologies and follow best practices in building and operating a safe virtual office solution for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum business value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete business-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Mexico City, México organizations to with any aspect of creating a high-performing remote work environment by providing infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Call Desk augmentation, cybersecurity, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Security for Telecommuters
At-home workers commonly use their own devices and often operate in a poorly secured physical area. This multiplies their susceptibility to malware threats and calls for careful configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive user training, and the creation of security policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned team of data security solutions consultants can help your business to plan, deploy and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that protects vital IT assets in environments that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls enable companies to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by local users as well as by at-home workers, mobile users, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to configure and manage appropriate permissions to various classes of users and to expand your network and adjust your security 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 configuration services, refer to firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Security Monitoring and Management Services for TeleworkersOnline Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to track the various computers utilized by telecommuters and either block or spot and respond to modern threats such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks at inception. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the infected endpoint from the corporate network to contain the malware. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is self-contained, endpoint devices stay protected even if they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint monitoring for remote workers.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for Remote WorkersProgent's Duo authentication Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables single-tap identity verification on iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, when you log into a secured application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are on a unit that only you have and that is accessed using a different network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this added means of ID validation such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity authentication services, see Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for remote workers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and local security attacks for a network that incorporates teleworkers. Progent can deploy online, automated security analysis scanning for rapidly and affordably uncovering a wide variety of security holes that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by security professionals with top credentials such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your operations and governance policies and assess your network infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your teleworkers.

NodeZero Pentetration Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated threat assessment of your work-from-home environment and your internal and perimeter networks so you can find, prioritize, remediate, and verify cybersecurity weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to perform comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your present security profile. Progent's NodeZero experts can also assist you to harden your network security and can assist you to plan and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's vulnerability analysis services based on on NodeZero's PEN test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To view or download a white paper about key areas to concentrate on for securing an IT environment that incorporates telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home Network White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive work-from-home environment for your Mexico City, México organization, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.