Employee monitoring software

Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC.

Related techniques

Keystroke monitoring: Log all keystrokes along with the window name they are typed. See also Keystroke logging, Hardware keyloggerEmails sent and received loggingEvents timeline logging: Log all events employees performed and view them in an organized listing.Website activity: Log all websites visited by the popular browsers. See also Web analytics, Web log analysis softwareApplication usage: Monitor and log all applications ran.Documents opened: Record documents and files opened and viewed.

Optional functions

• Remote Desktop Viewing - Grab screenshots of the remote computer's desktop.
• Remote System Information Viewing - View a listing of various system information for the remote PC.
• Remote Internet Connections Viewing - View a list of the current Internet connections on the remote machine.
• Remote Recent Document History Viewing
• Remote Message Display
• Remote System Lockdown Control

See also

• Malware
• Spyware
• Spy software
• Trojan horse
• Computer surveillance
• Job satisfaction

External links

• Should You Monitor Your Employees' Web Use?
• Is Big Brother watching you?
• Whitepaper: The Benefits of Employee Monitoring