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Employee Monitoring's™ unique advantage lies in
its ability to provide comprehensive Internet monitoring
simply and quickly. Employee Monitoring tracks the use
of the most highly used Web applications, like Real Player,
QuickTime, Morpheus, KaZaa, the four primary instant messaging
programs, email, and much more. Few programs are capable
of tracking all such activities.
The SEC recently began requiring financial firms to keep
track of all correspondences regarding their clients of
certain categories. For many financial firms that includes
correspondences in the form of instant messaging. To fill
this need approximately three main companies that provide
instant message monitoring and logging have developed.
Their systems start at $10,000 to $15,000 and go higher
based on the number of users, and also require annual
subscription fees of up to 30%. Their systems are not
only costly but also rather complex to install and operate.
Employee Monitoring similarly monitors and records all
instant messages, including usernames and passwords, and
the conversations from both participants. Employee Monitoring
performs equally well for email as well. Employee Monitoring
targets time usage inefficiencies, spots activities which
are against policy prior to their becoming crises, and
tracks spyware and hack attempts on the network, all at
much more reasonable costs than other solutions. Top
Internet security company CSI statistics state that 70
to 80% of all security breaches occur from within the
organization. Content monitoring can monitor for and stop
the accidental or intentional disclosure of a company's
Intellectual Property, confidential information or other
non-public content that can be accessed or disclosed electronically.
Screenshot of Employee Monitoring while in use and getting
set-up examples are available at:
http://www.employeemonitoring.net/getting-started.asp
One of the greatest advantages of productivity
tool is that it doesn't need to run on a separate
server, but rather can run on a standard workstation that
is simultaneously performing other tasks.
Employee Monitoring fills an under-penetrated niche in
the market. Most products in the EIM market sell for several
thousand dollars, require network and server training
for installation and maintenance, and are therefore too
complex for management's own use. Employee Monitoring
on the other hand sells at prices that small business
can afford, and is simple enough for management to use
personally.
Another central difference between Employee Monitoring
and other products for business is that Employee Monitoring
strictly monitors without any filtering or blocking of
Web sites. Most solutions consist of at least some content
filtering, which causes problems because, due to current
technological challenges, they all too frequently block
legitimate sites while allowing other prohibited sites
through. Employee Monitoring offers a different philosophy:
users can access any content so as to avoid the above
referenced problems, however any Web application used,
file downloaded, message sent, or Web page visited is
recorded and can be recalled at any time by management
so that the appropriate disciplinary action can be taken.
It is estimated that 3 to 5 million Web sites are newly
established or renamed each week, making the collection
and storage of accurate data virtually impossible. Some
providers of site blocking technology, however, claim
greater than 90% accuracy in database tracking of Internet
sites, a claim that is highly improbably based on the
shear volume of new and renamed sites. Site Blocking blocks
vast amounts of good data along with the bad. Site blocking
technology focuses only on HTTP based Web traffic, leaving
other applications such as instant messaging, e-mail,
e-mail attachments, and other applications. Site Blocking
conveys to users that if they find inappropriate sites
that are not blocked then it's okay to use them. Top
The Director of Network Security at a large university
privately admitted that their content filtering solution
from one of the market leaders only blocks about 70% of
prohibited traffic, and that they have no monitoring solution.
Therefore, three out of ten prohibited pages make it through
the filter and they have no means to see who, when, or
what of these disallowed activities.
Due to the complexity of low level packet networking and
programming, most monitoring products use outside, unproprietary
program code for their foundation. Employee Monitoring
however, was developed completely in-house and all of
its code is fully proprietary.
In order to view the full program's functionality, you
are welcome to download a version of Employee Monitoring
from: http://www.employeemonitoring.net/download.asp
Please keep in mind that it only operates on any version
of Windows 2000, 2000 Server, or XP. Also, if the network
is switched, then any inexpensive hub is required to connect
between the router and the switch, and also connect from
the hub into the PC running Employee Monitoring. A detailed
user's manual, complete with diagrams and troubleshooting
information, is being finalized. For
more information on the required network topology, please
see the graphic entitled Hubs vs. Switches.
What Makes Employee Monitoring
Unique -Comparison to other EIM
Employee Monitoring will likely have significantly higher
profit margins than its competitors because its deployment
never requires a field technician for installation or
service calls. Because its development was conducted on
such a limited budget, Employee Monitoring is a very competitive
product by means of a low initial investment relative
to its competition. Moreover, all of its sales, billing,
and even distribution processes are nearly fully automated
and occur via the Internet. Top
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