 User Explorer Overview
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| Activity/Event |
Description |
Examples of Use |
Chat/IM
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Event data contains Chat and Instant Messaging conversations captured from AOL, MSN, ICQ, and various other Chat/IM programs. |
View individual Chat sessions and see who the employee was chatting with and exactly what was sent and received in each session. |
Document Tracking
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Event data contains files printed or copied to a CDROM drive, Network, Local Drive, Printer, or Removable Media such as a floppy or USB drive. |
Quickly identify if the employee is printing out documents that he should not be printing.
Find out if the employee is sending confidential or proprietary information to a USB stick or other media by inspecting the contents of those files. |
Email
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Event data contains emails captured from POP, SMTP, Web Mail, Outlook and other email programs |
Identify those emails sent out with attachments and inspect the contents.
Determine if the employee opened up any SPAM email.
Determine if the employee is sending email to a competitor by inspecting the domain. |
File Transfer
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Event data contains file downloads and uploads. File Transfer includes Peer-to-Peer, FTP and HTTP methods of communication that allow direct exchange of information between two computers. |
Determine if the employee is transferring confidential or proprietary information to an external site without authorization.
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Keystroke
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Event data contains key strokes captured from all keyboard activity. |
Look at hidden characters that are typically masked by many programs. |
Network
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Event data contains key strokes captured from all keyboard activity. |
Determine if the employee is consuming network bandwidth and reveal the source of the traffic. |
Program
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Event data contains information regarding program usage. |
Reveal the types of programs an employee is using and identify if any are nonwork-related such as computer games.
See which programs the employee is using and how much time he is spending in each. |
User Activity
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Event data contains the date and time where users logged in or out of the system and the amount of activity they produced during this period. |
Detect if the employee is arriving late or leaving early by monitoring the employee’s activity on the computer.
Reveal if the employee is taking long or frequent breaks. |
Web Sites
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Event data contains information for all URLs visited by the user. |
Investigate the web sites visited and quickly determine if they are work related. |
Keyword Alert
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Event data contains information on keyword alerts that have occurred. |
Find out what keyword alerts an employee generates as they use the computer; what they were doing to generate the alert, and how many times they caused it. |
Online Searching
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Event data contains information for all online searches. |
Find out what online searches the employee performed to see if they are looking for a job or searching for nonwork-related information (e.g.: “accounting jobs”, “vacations”). |
Screen Snapshots
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Event data contains screen snapshots (taken as frequently as every 5 seconds) of user activity that can be reviewed through easy to use VCR-like controls. |
See exactly what the employee was doing on the Internet or PC through screen snapshots that reveal exactly what they saw, typed, clicked and more. |
