Today I received a phone call from one of our clients who had read my previous blog: “How to Benefit from Monitoring Good Web Activity”. This blog is focused on how you can benefit from monitoring internet activity that is not generally perceived as bad, or unproductive. The client, a network administrator at a large government department, wanted to share his experience from such a monitoring situation.
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Archive for September, 2009
How to Educate your Workforce and Strengthen Security with Internet Monitoring
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Exciting New Features in Vantage Update 2.2.0.10
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Attention all Vantage customers (and evaluators). We’ve just released build 2.2.0.10 as an auto-update. This build includes support for Microsoft Forefront Threat Management Gateway, and new features such as scheduled ‘data purge’ and scheduling CSV imports into your Organizational structure.
Remove Username-Password Prompts from the Web Module with Windows Authentication
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
A great feature of Vantage Ultimate is its ability to publish reports and storages to the Web Module so that users can login, view their reports and analyze data. But no one wants to have to remember yet another username and password combination to login to the Web Module, so make it easy on your users by using Windows Authentication. This way, as long as a user is logged into their Windows machine with their Windows domain username, they will sail straight into the Web Module without being prompted for a username or password. (more…)
Internet Monitoring Best Practices – 10 Valuable Tips
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
The benefits of allowing employees monitored Internet access, instead of extensive blocking and filtering, have been explored in previous blogs. In essence, an effective monitoring solution will assist in maximizing employee productivity, identifying download issues, improving network management and minimizing litigation risks.
Something of great importance is taking the users of the network you intend to monitor into consideration. Overly intrusive practices can easily create the negative perception that Big Brother is watching and make employees feel frustrated and uncomfortable. Effective Internet monitoring requires a two-pronged approach; intuitive monitoring software AND workforce education / consideration.
This time around I would like to expand on the best ways of monitoring your organizational Internet usage whilst maintaining a harmonious working environment between employers and employees.
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