When emergencies happen that prevent employees from being productive in the office, organizations need solutions to create new work processes and support employees as they work from alternate and safer locations.

However, teleworking process has big IT security risks. Organizations and companies should prepare these 5 things to secure their Teleworker. They need to ensure employees can access their networks quickly, without compromising security. All teleworkers must be equipped with proper security, so that important information does not fall into the hands of hackers.

Here are 5 things that companies need to prepare when they want to enhance their teleworking strategy with additional solution designed to provide extra security and simplification.

1. Endpoint Detection and Response

First, companies need to ensure that all teleworkers have right applications and remote devices to do their tasks. They probably already have some sort of desktop antivirus or other security tool in place on their remote devices, but as they implement teleworker strategy, they need a more aggressive endpoint security strategy. Their devices shall be equipped with the latest endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology that provides an extra level of security beyond traditional AV or other endpoint security clients.

2. Multi-Factor Authentication

Second, companies need to utilize Multi-Factor Authentication solution to ensure their network security. Multi-Factor Authentication can protect your network security from the cybercriminals. This solution increase the certainty of the identity of users as they enter the network.

3. Wireless Connectivity

Wireless Connectivity helps identify devices seeking network access to make sure they are what they claim to be. It can assign users to appropriate network segments. Wireless Connectivity enables persistent connections, and protect your confidential information.

4. Secure Telephony

Secure Telephony supports Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) solution to ensure a secure communication channel.

5. Advanced Threat Protection

Advanced Threat Protection offers analysis of malware and other suspicious content within a sandboxed environment before it reaches its destination. The scalability of Advanced Threat Protection is important, because work processes that are not equipped with advanced security will affect Teleworker productivity.

Understanding the need for securing Teleworkers, Aplikas Servis Pesona comes with Fortinet Teleworker and Remote Security solution which includes 5 capabilities of those security solution to secure remote work processes from cyber threats.

Fortinet Teleworker and Remote Security solution helps companies to prepare strategy for securing Teleworker with 5 security solutions– Endpoint Detection and Response with FortiEDR, Multi-Factor Authentication with FortiAuthenticator, Wireless Connectivity with FortiAPs, Secure Telephony with FortiFone and monitored by a FortiGate NGFW, also Advanced Threat Protection with FortiSandbox.

To ensure the security of your teleworking process with Fortinet Teleworker and Remote Security solution, please contact marketing@phintraco.com to get your FREE CONSULTATION with our IT Security Consultant.

Sumber:

https://www.fortinet.com/blog/business-and-technology/fortigate-customer-teleworker-strategy-already-in-place.html

https://www.fortinet.com/content/dam/fortinet/assets/solution-guides/sb-secure-remote-access-for-your-workforce-at-scale.pdf  

https://www.fortinet.com/solutions/enterprise-midsize-business/network-access/teleworker-work-remote.html