Specto RCNE Investigator Software Review

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Let’s face it many employees spend too much personal time on the internet during work hours and be on wasting personal time on the company’s time. Some employees take advantage of workplace internet connections to leak confidential information or even perform illegal downloads that they would not want to trace back from their home computers. Well, the lost of bandwidth and employee time and attention can cost even a small company tens of thousands of dollars a year. I came across this software program called Spector CNE Investigator that can possibly help keep employees focus on the task at hand. Investigator’s solution is to record virtually every key stroke made on each license computer. This can include all instant messages, chat conversations, sent and received emails, visited websites, program runs even files downloaded or copied to removable media plus the software take screen shots to capture a visual history of each user’s computer. Let’s look how this works, for example, here the email recorder records PC based outlook and exchange email as well as web based email services you know, things like Hotmail and Gmail from Google. Every email sent, received and deleted including attachments is duplicated and store for later review by the administrator, meaning your designated HR person. Here we’ve got the chat instant message recorder records both computer-based and internet based chat sessions like in instant messenger in their entirety, they’ll know what they are chatting about. You’ve got the key stroke recorder which saves all key strokes by program, date and even time and even things like type password are recorder plus the program records which users logged in to the computer at that time. You’ll know exactly who is using the PC and for what. The website recorder logs every web page visited by time and duration, and all uploaded and downloaded files are also noted, so the administrator can create a white list to permitted websites as well as a black list of forbidden websites. Here, we’ve got the program activity recorder which tracks when each program is open and close and even what functions to that program are used. You’ll know how long they are using things like maybe Adode Photoshop and what duration of time. This is the network activity recorder which traps all internet connections made from a computer as well as which programs maybe used in web activity. Things like TCP ports are identified and download consumption is also catalog. The file transfer recorder will capture all files that are uploaded and downloaded from a user’s computer. These files not only take a bandwidth, but also maybe proprietary information from your company or illegally downloaded copyright material. Things like BitTorrent whether downloading movies and pirated music. The inadvertent installation of intrusive spyware and adware can also be tracked. You’ll know who is messing up their computers and be able to deal with it quickly. The document tracking recorder tracks the legitimate and illegitimate documents and files that your employees are accessing, creating, editing, printing and copying to outside drives. This is important with so many people carrying USB thumb drives and even digital memory cards with digital cameras in MP3 players. This is your company’s ability to make sure that no one is copying stuff without your permission or knowledge. Here you’ve got something called the Screen Snapshot Recorder which takes hundreds of snap shots of each computer screen every hour. The resulting playback is kind of like a fast paced look at the computer being used. It’s kind of like video taping what’s happening on the PC and being able to go back and look at it visually. The keyword detection in recording can be set up to track words and phrases you chose ones that might indicates suspicious activity by an employee, not only your key strokes monitored for this words and phrases, but so our web addresses, emails and chat activity. Use of any of these designated words send the media an alert to the administrator. You can also invoke stills mode which an option of high dysfunction from the user. The resulting reports from each computer securely sent to the administrator for review and archiving. It’s graphical reporting style allows for a quick review. Everything from wasted employee time to corporate theft is catalog. You know obviously this is a great way to get a micro level of look of what your employees are doing, but don’t go crazy, go on use a tool like this wisely. No one likes being spied on. The most effective way to use is to inform your employees that their activity on company PCs is property of the company which is truly is, and things like emails, websites visited, things like that are monitored to protect the company and it’s employees. Let’s face it, the best way to have strong relationship with your team is to be open and honest with each other. And you know, with working home lies melting together in this connected world, many companies allowed their employees to use company computer time to run personal errands and manage their home life. It makes for happier and more productive employees. What you want to do is set clear boundaries. Let them know clearly what’s cool to do and what’s not. This type of program can help protect your company, and it can also be morale breaking nightmares. Used it wisely and keep the lines of communications open with your most important asset, your people.