Data Security and Compliance

Adding to your at-home or hybrid pool of workers can have a major impact on IT infrastructure, security, and corporate workflow. Progent has 20 years of background helping small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to design, implement, tune, manage, and troubleshoot networks that incorporate a remote workforce. Progent can assist your company to select the right technologies and follow best practices in building and maintaining a secure virtual environment that promotes collaboration and gives maximum value.

Progent can provide remote IT services that range from on-demand consulting for helping you over sporadic IT roadblocks to full project management for successfully completing mission-critical initiatives.

Cybersecurity for Remote Workers
Work-from-Home (WFH) staff members commonly utilize their own computing devices and often work in an unsecured physical environment. This situation multiplies their susceptibility to malware attacks and calls for judicious deployment of corporate firewalls, AV tools, multi-factor authentication, remote endpoint monitoring, extensive user education, and the creation of security policies built on best practices. Progent's veteran group of IT security solutions consultants can help your business to design, deploy and manage a compliant security solution that protects critical information assets in networks that incorporate at-home workers.

Firewalls enable companies to build a network environment that can be safely utilized by on-premises users as well as by telecommuters, mobile users, vendors, clients, and other stakeholders. Next-generation firewall devices permit you to assign and manage appropriate permissions to different groups of users and to scale your network and adjust your security as your company evolves and as network attacks become increasingly complex. Progent works with both current and legacy security devices from all major vendors including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Juniper, SonicWall and Fortinet. To find out more about Progent's firewall configuration expertise, go to firewall support expertise.

Remote Endpoint Security Monitoring makes it possible to watch over the various computers used by an at-home workforce and either block or identify and mitigate modern threats like ransomware. With Progent's ProSight Active Security Monitoring (ASM) services, a small-footprint agent is installed on each secured endpoint, watching all activity and using state-of-the-art behavioral threat analysis from SentinelOne to detect zero-day threats at inception. When an attack is discovered, ProSight Active Security Monitoring immediately disconnects the infected device from the corporate network to quarantine the malware. Since the ProSight ASM agent is autonomous, endpoint devices stay protected even when they are not connected to the Internet. Progent is a SentinelOne Partner, dealer, and integrator. For more information about ProSight ASM, refer to remote endpoint monitoring for at-home workers.

Progent's Duo MFA Managed Services utilize Cisco's Duo cloud technology to protect against compromised passwords through the use of two-factor authentication. Duo enables one-tap identity verification with Apple iOS, Google Android, and other out-of-band devices. Using Duo 2FA, when you sign into a protected application and give your password you are requested to verify who you are via a device that only you have and that uses a different ("out-of-band") network channel. A broad range of out-of-band devices can be used for this added means of authentication such as an iPhone or Android or wearable, a hardware/software token, a landline phone, etc. You can designate several validation devices. For more information about ProSight Duo two-factor identity validation services, visit Cisco Duo MFA two-factor authentication (2FA) services for teleworkers.

Security Audits can evaluate the vulnerability of your network to all types of outside and local security threats for a network that includes telecommuters. Progent can deploy online, automated cybersecurity analysis software for rapidly and affordably detecting a wide variety of security weaknesses that can be found via the Internet. Progent's endpoint security audit consulting services, which can be provided by network security experts with advanced certifications such as CISA, CISSP, and GIAC, can help you to evaluate your procedures and policies and review your IT infrastructure to enable you to design the highest level of protection for your an at-home workforce.

Horizon3.ai's NodeZero Penetration Testing Platform is a breakthrough penetration test (pentest) product family that supports autonomous threat assessment of your at-home connectivity solution as well as your internal and perimeter networks to help you uncover, prioritize, remediate, and confirm security weaknesses before malicious hackers can take advantage of them. Progent's pentest experts can help you to use NodeZero to perform thorough pentests of your perimeter and your internal IT infrastructure so you can determine your current security posture. Progent can also help you to strengthen your network security and can help you to plan and deploy a unified cybersecurity strategy that simplifies management and provides optimum cyber defense for on-prem, multi-cloud, at-home, and perimeter IT resources. To learn more details about Progent's threat assessment services based on on NodeZero's penetration test platform, see Consulting Support for NodeZero's Pentest Platform.

Download White Paper: Protecting a Work-From-Home Network
To view or download a white paper about critical areas to focus on for protecting a network that supports work-from-home staff, 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 an efficient work-from-home environment, call 1-800-993-9400 or refer to Contact Progent.

Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line: Call 800-462-8800
Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line is designed to help organizations to carry out the time-critical first steps in mitigating a ransomware attack by stopping the bleeding. Progent's online ransomware engineer can help you to identify and isolate infected devices and guard clean assets from being compromised. If your system has been penetrated by any version of ransomware, act fast. Get immediate help by calling Progent's Ransomware Hot Line at 800-462-8800. For details, visit Progent's Ransomware 24x7 Hot Line.