Monitoring Solutions

Nowadays when every employee has a computer at the workplace, the problem of efficient use of engineering resources becomes increasingly acute. With spread of the Internet this problem has become even more important. Communication with friends in the social nets, viewing news and entertainment web sites, playing games and Instant Messaging are the factors which often distract employees from their direct duties.

A principally new monitoring solution - Work Examiner - has been created to help companies in more efficient control of idle computer activity of personnel. While developing the concept of this monitoring solution we came to conclusion that the employee monitoring software should consist of the following components:

It is just this kind of innovation approach to internet access control that has been implemented in Work Examiner:

Monitor Internet Usage - according to the recent Gallup research, the Internet communications and entertainments take more time than offline games. Besides, access to the Internet always constitutes a potential hazard to security of computer and data. The Internet Usage reports will show you who, when, where, and how long has been in the Internet.

Monitor Computer Usage - offers control over use of applications (office apps, games, instant messengers) and sessions of the user in the operating system (log in\log out). Thus, it is not only employee's activity in applications that can be analyzed but also their attendance.

Internet Filtering - is an agile solution based on policies. It can be a permitting or inhibiting policy, it can be applicable to a web-site or to a group of sites, to a user or to a group of users.

Application Filtering -is based on policies on the analogy with Internet Filtering. It allows blocking all applications, except for the specified ones. Besides, in such a case critical system applications (e.g. explorer) will not be blocked, but all the others will.

Further details about some components of monitoring solution:

• Internet usage
• Employee monitoring
• Internet filtering