Petaluma At Home Workers Configuration Support Partner

Enlarging your at-home workforce may have a significant effect on IT architecture, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has two decades of experience assisting businesses of all sizes to design, configure, administer, optimize, and troubleshoot IT environments that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Petaluma company to select the appropriate technologies and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a safe virtual office ecosystem for teleworkers that facilitates teamwork and delivers top value. Progent can provide support services that go from as-needed guidance for helping you over challenging IT roadblocks to comprehensive project management or co-management to help you successfully complete mission-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Petaluma, California companies to succeed with any facet of building a high-functioning work-at-home environment by delivering infrastructure design and configuration services, VoIP PBX expertise, video conferencing integration, collaboration platform customization and training, cloud connectivity, Help Desk services, data security, backup/restore solutions, and unified management.

Cybersecurity for At-Home Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) employees commonly use their own devices and often work in an unsecured physical space. This increases their susceptibility to cyber threats and requires careful configuration of corporate firewalls, anti-malware tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user education, and the creation of policies built on best practices. Progent's seasoned team of IT security solutions experts can assist you to design, implement and manage an effective security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewalls allow companies to build a network that can be securely utilized by on-premises users and by at-home workers, mobile users, vendors, clients, and the public. Modern firewall devices allow you to assign and manage different permissions to various groups of users and to expand your network and modify your security profile as your company evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and older security appliances from all major manufacturers including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, WatchGuard, Juniper, and Fortinet. For more information about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, refer to firewall integration and support services.

Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various devices utilized by teleworkers and either reject or identify and respond to the latest cyber attacks like ransomware. With ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and using state-of-the-art AI technology from SentinelOne to identify zero-day threats at inception. When an attack is spotted, ProSight ASM instantly disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to contain the threat. Since the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay secure even if they are disconnected from the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. To find out more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo authentication Managed Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against compromised passwords by using two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification on iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using 2FA, whenever you sign into a protected application and give your password you are asked to verify your identity on a device that only you possess and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide range of devices can be utilized for this added means of authentication including an iPhone or Android or watch, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several verification devices. To find out more about Duo identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication services for an at-home workforce.

Security Audits can assess the vulnerability of your information system to all types of external and local security threats for a network that includes an at-home workforce. Progent can run remote, automated security analysis software for quickly and affordably uncovering a broad range of security gaps that can be surfaced via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security assessment experts, which can be provided by network security professionals with top certifications including CISM, CISSP, and GIAC, can assist you to evaluate your operations and policies and review your network architecture to enable you to implement top-level protection for your remote workers.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Pentest 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 identify, rank, remediate, and verify security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to deploy NodeZero to carry out comprehensive pentests of your perimeter and your internal network so you can determine your current security profile. Progent can also assist you to strengthen your network security and can help you to design and deploy a cohesive cybersecurity ecosystem that simplifies management and delivers maximum protection for on-prem, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT resources. To find out additional details about Progent's threat analysis services based on on NodeZero's pentest platform, see Consulting Services for NodeZero's PEN Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper describing key things to focus on for securing a network that supports work-from-home staff, click:
Protecting a Work-From-Home Environment White Paper. (PDF - 2.4 MB)

Contact Progent for Telecommuter Expertise
To get in touch with Progent about creating and maintaining an efficient telecommuter solution for your Petaluma, California business, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.