Sandy Springs Remote Workers Connectivity Advisor

Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a major impact on network infrastructure, security/compliance, and corporate workflows. Progent has 20 years of background assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, tune, and debug IT networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can help your Sandy Springs company to select the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns top value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you over occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management or co-management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent's consultants can help Sandy Springs, Georgia companies to succeed with any aspect of building a high-performing telecommuting ecosystem by providing network infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, voice/video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, security monitoring, data protection solutions, and centralized management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home workers commonly utilize their personal computing devices and usually operate in an unsecured physical environment. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and calls for careful deployment of firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote monitoring, thorough end-user training, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned roster of cybersecurity support consultants can assist you to plan, configure and maintain a compliant cybersecurity solution that guards critical information assets in environments that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewalls enable you to create a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by teleworkers, mobile workers, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances allow you to assign and control appropriate permissions to various groups of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your security profile as your company evolves and as network attacks become increasingly sophisticated. Progent works with both new and legacy firewall appliances from all leading manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall integration expertise, see firewall support services.

Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers used by telecommuters and either reject or spot and respond to the latest threats such as ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint agent is installed on every secured endpoint device, watching all activity and using advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the targeted endpoint from the network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoint devices remain secure even when they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for teleworkers.

Progent's Duo authentication Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against password theft through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification with iOS, Android, and other out-of-band devices. With Duo 2FA, when you sign into a secured application and give your password you are asked to confirm who you are on a unit that only you possess and that uses a different network channel. A wide selection of devices can be utilized for this second means of ID validation such as a smartphone or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline telephone, etc. You may register multiple validation devices. For details about Duo two-factor identity validation services, see Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for telecommuters.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your network to all types of outside and local security attacks for an environment that incorporates telecommuters. Progent can run online, automated security analysis software for quickly and economically uncovering a broad range of security gaps that can be found via the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be provided by security professionals with top credentials such as CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to evaluate your procedures and policies and assess your IT infrastructure to allow you to design the highest level of security for your teleworkers.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest Platform is a cutting-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous threat assessment of your work-from-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks so you can identify, prioritize, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to deploy NodeZero to perform comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure in order to determine your current security posture. Progent's NodeZero experts can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and deploy a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat analysis solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's Penetration Test Products.

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

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Support Services
To get in touch with Progent about building and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Sandy Springs, Georgia company, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.