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     March 31, 2008     Increase Office Productivity through Information Technology
     
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                      Don't want to block access to facebook just yet?

      Spector 360 let you monitor, analyze, investigate network usage, prevent potential damage to Your company 

Internet abuse can happen to company and organization of all size, large and small. Because Internet abuse not only cost productivity, but also financial, legal and other risks caused by leaking of confidential information and other inappropriate activities.

Why should company monitoring their employee online activities?

Compliance Requirements
Meet government, industry, or Agency compliance requirements (such as HIPAA), by maintaining records of communications and transactions. You can now archive email that has been sent and received by employee on an individual basis, including attachment.

Insider Theft Protection
Digital theft is extremely hard to detect. Employees tent to copy or print company proprietary or confidential documents in the days leading up to their resignation. Others will routinely leak sensitive and confidential information to competitors, accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise.

Enforce Acceptable Use Policy
Employees often believe that rules can be bent if no one is watching. Internet monitoring software ensures adherence to company policy for computer and Internet use.

Prevent potential lawsuit
Company is liable to lawsuit when an employee use company computer for illegal or inappropriate activities. Internet monitoring software can lower the incidence and risks of sexual and racial harassment and occurrences of online gambling and surfing of pornography.  

Conduct Investigations and Document Violations
Any employee suspected of engaging in inappropriate, illegal, or unapproved conduct can be investigated with Internet monitoring software.

Increase Employee Productivity
Significantly reduce the amount of time employee waste on online shopping, day trading, pornography, gambling, eBay, facebook, and other inappropriate web sites. Once employee are made aware they are they are being monitoring, they tent to work harder and stay more focused. It usually cut down this huge productivity drain by at least 75%.

Monitoring software can be sue to monitor employee proficiency skills too. If additional training or other assistant is needed to make that employee more productive, HR or the manager is able to quickly rectify the situation.

When a company does not have a policy and Internet monitoring tool in place regarding employee using company resources for Internet activities, the occurrence of Internet abuse is much greater. 

One powerful PC and Internet monitoring software available is Spector 360 from Spectorsoft, a Vero Beach, Florida based software company.

Spector 360 is a powerful full-featured Internet, computer, and employee monitoring software product developed to provide a quick, “Big Picture View” of how your entire company uses the Internet, applications and network resources.

It lets you quickly and easily finding out how employees are using the Internet, email (even web based mail such as Hotmail or Yahoo), applications, chat, transferring files, download files, or moving and printing documents. Having the ability to view how these services are being used across an organization will empower Network Administrator to detect company policy abuse.

 

 

 

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Are you trying to cut down time waste employee on non-work related online activities such as facebook, myspace, and pornography sites?

Are you to trying to find out who copy large amount of files to USB flash drive or Internet file storage service such as xdrive?

Are your trying to catch employee who watch streaming video or music and slow down company network?

Are you trying to catch the trader or insider who leaks confidential information to competitor?

Are you trying to find out who use company network resource and time to run his or her part time business?

Are you trying to find out who send the most email with attachment? Copy the most file to USB drive? Print the most document?

Are you trying to find out who always come to work late? leave early? Or take a long breaks?

Are you trying to find out who is the most productive and who is the least productive?

Are you trying to find out who open the email and reply within ten minutes of it being sent?

Let's face it. Employee spend average 45 minutes online for non-work related activities. Some employee may spend more than an hour online each day. Some employee constantly checking on facebook. When it come to network performance, security, and productivity, there is nothing personal about it. Network Administrators just have to do what they have to prevent potential damage. 

Personal action can affects a company's reputation. An employee who download and save child pornography images on his company issued laptop PC at home does not just get himself in trouble, but the company is subject to legal action too.

An employee who watch video or play game online at lunch time still take away network bandwidth and drag down the whole network. Buying more bandwidth cost money. Who pay for more bandwidth?

Web filtering software may do some tricks blocking out some unwanted sites, but it is not a great solution to every one. Because what is appropriate for one department may be off limit for another department,  deciding what sites should be blocked and what should be available can cause a lot for  headache for Network Administrators. In some cases after implementing web filtering software and block out some web sites, Network Administrator suddenly become the public enemy to some employee. Network Administrators have already faced enough challenges every days.

Another problem with web filtering software is it does not keep company confidential or sensitive information secure. Employee can easily send or transfer large amount of files to xdrive, an Internet storage service. Knowing who sent what files to where provides a valuable investigation tool.

Spector 360 can answer to some of the most frequent challenge you face?

  • What web sites are being visited most frequently and who is spending the most time browsing the web? Are these web sites work-related?
  • Which employees are engaging in chat or instant messaging? Is it work-related?
  • Who is using Hotmail, AOL mail, Gmail or Yahoo mail to communicate sensitive documents?
  • What are employees searching for on Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL?
  • Who is sending the most email with attachments and where is it going? What is contained in those attachments? Is the employee authorized to send out this information?
  • What are the top programs being run and are any of them non-work-related?
  • Which employees are playing games like Solitaire at work? How much time are they spending playing games?
  • Who is transferring the most files and what exactly are they sending out and to whom are they sending these files?
  • Who is saving confidential information to removable media like flash drives or CDs or DVDs?
  • Who is printing company sensitive files?
  • Who are the top violators of those keywords that indicate abuse (e.g.: sex, guns, gambling, facebook)
  • Which employees type the most?  Which type the least?
  • Which employees use the most network bandwidth and why?
  • Who is arriving at work late and leaving to go home early?
  • Who takes the most breaks throughout the day?

Spector 360 included a number for tools to help you investigate suspected employee or activities. The search tool let you look for word or phrase in all employee activities, like who has been access sensitive documents for copy file to removable media, or look for all activities of an employee. You can use the Snapshot Recoding and Playback to see not only how they do it, but the exact order of what they do, step by step like a surveillance video tape. You can finally answer tough question such as Who email sensitive data outside the company? who spend the most time on web surfing? who chat too much? or what do employee search for online?

Employee usually try to hide their email communication and think they can get away with web based email. Now you can use Spector 360 to record all incoming and out going emails, all popular instant messengers, all web based email service such as Yahoo and Hotmail, and records all keystrokes typed. It also records what one looks at and does on web sites, including postings on anonymous message boards.

When abuse occurs, Spector 360 let you know which employees are using valuable network resources for personal reasons. You will know exactly what they download, how they spend their time, and the visual verification management needs for employee discussion or warning.

Should an employee install or download pirated software, you can immediately diminish company liability by eliminating programs outside the core products approved for your business.

The threat of being caught red-handed is very powerful. Non-work related activities will go down by at least 90% once employee know that they are being monitoring.

To protect company property, prevent information breach, and potential lawsuit, company has the right to monitor employee online and offline PC activities on company issued PC. 

 
 
 
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