Expanding your at-home workforce can have a major impact on network infrastructure, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of background assisting SMBs to plan, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that support at-home workers. Progent can help your Columbus company to select the right tools and follow best practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for telecommuters that promotes teamwork and returns top business value. Progent offers services ranging from on demand expertise for helping you past challenging IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete mission-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Columbus, Ohio companies to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing remote work environment by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud connectivity, Help Desk services, endpoint security, data protection solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
At-home workers commonly use their personal devices and usually work in an unsecured physical area. This increases their vulnerability to cyber threats and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote monitoring, intensive end-user training, and the creation of security policies built on leading practices. Progent's veteran roster of data security solutions consultants can help you to plan, implement and manage an effective cybersecurity solution that guards vital IT resources in environments that include an at-home workforce.

Firewall Integration Services for At-Home WorkersFirewalls allow companies to create a network that can be safely accessed by on-premises users as well as by telecommuters, mobile workers, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage different permissions to different classes of users and to expand your network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and older firewall devices from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall support services, go to firewall configuration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Monitoring and Management Services for At-Home WorkersRemote Endpoint Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices utilized by at-home workers and either reject or identify and respond to modern threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is put on every secured endpoint, watching all activity and utilizing state-of-the-art machine learning from SentinelOne to identify new attacks before they can spread. When an attack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately disconnects the impacted endpoint from the corporate network to contain the threat. 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, reseller, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, go to remote endpoint security monitoring for an at-home workforce.

Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Services for TelecommutersProgent's Duo MFA Services utilize Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables single-tap identity confirmation with Apple iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to confirm who you are via a device that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be utilized as this second form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity authentication services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for teleworkers.

Security Audit Services for At-Home WorkersSecurity Audits can evaluate the exposure of your network to all types of outside and internal security threats for an environment that includes teleworkers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity inventory software for rapidly and economically uncovering a broad range of security holes that can be found over the Internet. Progent's security assessment experts, which can be managed by data security experts with top credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help you to audit your procedures and policies and assess your WAN infrastructure to allow you to implement the highest level of protection for your telecommuters.

NodeZero Pen Testing for At-Home WorkersHorizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine 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 unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-prem, cloud-based, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out more details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home (WFH) Environment
To view or download a white paper describing key things to concentrate on for protecting an IT environment that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Remote Workforce Expertise
To contact Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Columbus, Ohio business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or go to Contact Progent.