Walnut Creek Telecommuters Integration Consulting Partner

Expanding your remote workforce may have a major impact on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and corporate culture. Progent has 20 years of experience assisting small and mid-size businesses to design, deploy, manage, tune, and troubleshoot IT networks that incorporate at-home workers. Progent can help your Walnut Creek organization to select the appropriate technologies and follow leading practices in building and operating a safe virtual solution for telecommuters that facilitates teamwork and delivers maximum value. Progent offers services ranging from as-needed guidance for getting you past challenging IT roadblocks to full project management to help you carry out business-critical initiatives.

Progent can assist Walnut Creek, California businesses to succeed with any facet of creating a high-performing work-from-home ecosystem by providing network infrastructure configuration services, IP voice troubleshooting, video conferencing support, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud integration, Help Desk augmentation, security and compliance, backup/restore solutions, and centralized management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly utilize their own computing devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, intensive end-user education, and the creation of policies based on leading practices. Progent's seasoned roster of data security support experts can help your business to plan, deploy and manage an effective security solution that protects vital IT assets in networks that incorporate telecommuters.

Firewalls allow you to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile users, vendors, clients, and the public. Next-generation firewall appliances permit you to assign and control appropriate permissions to different classes of users and to scale your network and modify your security profile as your business evolves and as network attacks become increasingly complex. Progent works with both new and legacy security appliances from all leading vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. To learn more about Progent's firewall integration expertise, refer to firewall configuration and support services.

Online Endpoint Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the disparate computers utilized by telecommuters and either block or spot and respond to modern cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each secured endpoint device, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight ASM immediately isolates the infected endpoint from the network to quarantine the malware. Because the ProSight ASM agent is self-contained, endpoints remain secure even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For details about ProSight Active Security Monitoring, refer to remote endpoint security monitoring for teleworkers.

Progent's Duo MFA Managed Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to defend against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo supports one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With Duo 2FA, whenever you sign into a secured application and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a unit that only you possess and that is accessed using a separate network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added form of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware token, a landline telephone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To find out more about ProSight Duo identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for at-home workers.

Security Audits can assess the exposure of your information system to all classes of external and local security threats for a network that includes remote workers. Progent can deploy remote, automated cybersecurity analysis software for rapidly and economically detecting a broad range of security weaknesses that can be found over the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment consulting services, which can be managed by security experts with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist your business to evaluate your processes and policies and review your IT infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero PEN Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports automated testing of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, fix, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can help you to use NodeZero to carry out thorough penetration tests 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 harden your existing network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers optimum protection for on-premises, cloud-based, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more information about Progent's vulnerability assessment solutions based on on NodeZero's penetration test products, visit Consulting Support for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network
To read or download a white paper describing critical things to focus on for protecting a network that supports telecommuters, click:
Securing a Work-From-Home (WFH) Network 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 environment for your Walnut Creek, California business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or visit Contact Progent.