SoftActivity Monitor benefits and use cases. Easy user monitoring for organizations
- Increase personnel productivity instantly.
- Eliminate personal use of the Internet, unrelated emails, IM communication and social networks at work.
- Prevent viewing of inappropriate content by employees at work.
- Stop employees wasting work time on computer games and watching videos.
- Protect your company from legal lawsuits & reduce liability risks.
- In most jurisdictions, employers hold some form of liability and accountability for the actions of their employees. You need to monitor employee communications.
- Employees can sue the company for a hostile workplace environment if they are unwittingly exposed to inappropriate or offensive materials on company computers or harassment via email, for example.
- Protect your company from fraudulent activity.
- Employees often have access to sensitive personal information which can either be misused or sold on to a third party.
- Protect against insider threats.
- Protect from intellectual property and trade secrets theft
- A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute found that 75% of IPT’s were carried out by current staff members.
- Keep records of your company’s electronic communications
- For some companies/organizations retention of records can be a regulatory compliance requirement. For instance: HIPAA for healthcare industry, FIPPA and PCI for financial industry, PII (personally identifiable information) protection.
- Collected records can be used in an internal investigation if such need arises.
Other SoftActivity features for monitoring your workstations
- Real time monitoring – you see it instantly when users type text on their computers, and see their live screen.
- Auto-detection of all networked computers with Agent installed in the same subnet.
- Monitor multiple employee computers simultaneously from a single workstation in LAN ( Screenshot).
- Workplace monitoring software part, running on the monitored computers, is difficult to find for an employee as it runs completely invisibly (Not available in Demo. Only available for companies and organizations for monitoring work computers). Users can not see nor terminate SoftActivity Agent in Task Manager. They will not be able to see or alter the recorded logs neither.
- Install, uninstall and update Agent program remotely from the administrator’s PC or server.
- Automatically download recorded logs from all computers and store them in a central database on the company’s server.
- Automatic update of Agents on all remote computers from the admin’s monitoring console. There is no need to reinstall the client on all computers when a new version is released.
- Visible mode in Client App allows you to notify employees about monitoring of their actions. It will display a notification to users when they sign in to Windows, so they remember about their activity being recorded, show a customizable warning message abut your computer use policy, display an icon in system tray.
- SoftActivity internet monitoring software is easy to install and use.