Cambridge Work at Home Employees Connectivity Advisor

Expanding your telecommuter workforce may have a major impact on network architecture, cybersecurity, and company processes. Progent has 20 years of experience helping small and mid-size businesses to plan, deploy, administer, tune, and troubleshoot IT environments that support a remote workforce. Progent can assist your Cambridge organization to select the right tools and adhere to leading practices in creating and operating a secure virtual solution for teleworkers that promotes teamwork and returns top value. Progent offers services that go from as-needed expertise for helping you over occasional IT bottlenecks to full project management to help you successfully complete business-critical tasks.

Progent can assist Cambridge, United Kingdom organizations to succeed with any aspect of creating a high-performing work-from-home environment by providing infrastructure configuration services, IP voice expertise, voice/video conferencing integration, collaboration platform selection and deployment, cloud integration, Call Desk outsourcing, data security, backup/restore solutions, and streamlined management.

Security and Compliance for Remote Workers
At-home staff members commonly use their own devices and often work in a poorly secured physical area. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and requires judicious configuration of corporate firewalls, AV tools, MFA-based identity verification, remote endpoint monitoring, thorough user education, and the creation of policies built on leading practices. Progent's seasoned group of cybersecurity support experts can help you to plan, deploy and maintain a compliant security solution that protects critical information resources in environments that incorporate an at-home workforce.

Firewalls allow companies to build a network that can be safely utilized by on-premises users and by an at-home workforce, mobile employees, suppliers, clients, and other stakeholders. Modern firewall devices permit you to assign and control appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to scale your IT network and adjust your cybersecurity posture as your business evolves and as network attacks grow increasingly complex. Progent supports both current and older security appliances from all major vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration services, refer to firewall support expertise.

Online Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it easy to watch over the various devices used by remote workers and either reject or spot and respond to the latest threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint software agent is put on each protected endpoint, monitoring all activity and utilizing advanced machine learning from SentinelOne to detect zero-day attacks on arrival. When a cyberattack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately isolates the impacted endpoint from the network to quarantine the threat. Because the ProSight Active Security Monitoring agent is autonomous, endpoints stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, reseller, and integrator. To learn more about ProSight ASM, see remote endpoint security monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo MFA Services incorporate Cisco's Duo technology to protect against password theft by using two-factor authentication (2FA). Duo enables one-tap identity confirmation with iOS, Android, and other personal devices. With 2FA, when you sign into a secured 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 ("out-of-band") network channel. A wide selection of out-of-band devices can be used for this added form of ID validation including a smartphone or watch, a hardware token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate multiple validation devices. To learn more about Duo two-factor identity validation services, go to Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audits can evaluate the exposure of your information system to all classes of outside and internal security attacks for a network that incorporates remote workers. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity analysis scanning for quickly and economically detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be surfaced over the Internet. Progent's security audit experts, which can be managed by data security professionals with top certifications including CISA, ISSAP, and GIAC, can help your business to audit your workflows and governance policies and assess your network infrastructure to enable you to implement the highest level of security for your at-home workers.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a leading-edge penetration test (pentest) product family that can deliver autonomous testing of your at-home environment as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you find, rank, fix, and verify security vulnerabilities before threat actors can take advantage of them. Progent can assist you to use NodeZero to carry out comprehensive penetration tests of your network perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can evaluate your current security profile. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can assist you to design and implement a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides maximum protection for on-premises, multi-cloud, remote, and perimeter IT assets. To find out additional details about Progent's threat assessment services powered by on NodeZero's penetration test platform, refer to Consulting Support for NodeZero's Penetration Test Platform.

Download White Paper: Securing a Work-From-Home Network
To read or download a white paper describing key areas to focus on for protecting an IT environment that supports 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 creating and managing a productive telecommuter environment for your Cambridge, United Kingdom company, phone 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.