{"id":1999,"date":"2020-03-21T09:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T09:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empmonitor.in\/blog\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2022-12-08T08:12:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T08:12:58","slug":"computer-monitoring-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.empmonitor.com\/blog\/computer-monitoring-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Insider Threat: What Is It And How To Protect Your Company From It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Organizations in any sector, be it finance, IT, health, etc., are growing at enormous rates in terms of the number of employees that work for them. Companies of the previous eras had a different approach towards monitoring their employees\u2019 performance and productivity and a <\/span>computer monitoring software <\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span>was not needed then. But in today\u2019s world, it has become more complex and crucial to watch an employee\u2019s actions in a contemporary organization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is understandable for an employee to browse through high-priority news or stock market updates during working hours. But when it reaches the extent where it hampers their productivity or even worse, when companies have to deal with insider threat protection then employee monitoring becomes indispensable.<\/span><\/p>\n

A company suffers from insider threat when a malicious threat is occurred to it from people inside the organization or those who are associated with it. Company\u2019s have to deal with a lot of confidential data and data security is one of the foremost priorities for them to function in the rightful manner. They have to be protected from every corner from threats like fraud or leakage of commercially valuable information or intellectual property.<\/span><\/p>\n

The threat to a company can come from any of these people who are directly or indirectly involved with a company:<\/b><\/p>\n

Malicious insiders:<\/strong> These are the regular employees of a company who misuse their access rights to harm their company due to their personal or professional grudge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Negligent insiders:<\/strong> These are also the employees of a company who make unintentional errors or ignore their policies which brings a company to risk<\/span><\/p>\n

Infiltrators:<\/strong> These are the cyber attackers who are able to hack a company\u2019s cyber network and gain access rights without authorization.<\/span><\/p>\n

The third category of threat is still controllable with a strong cyber security infrastructure but when it comes to other two threats, the threats from insiders, then companies have to resort to employee monitoring systems to control them.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is the job of a <\/span>computer monitoring system<\/b> to notify the higher authorities of any suspicious behaviours being performed by an employee. While there are numerous <\/span>employee monitoring software<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a> available online, there is none as comprehensive and easy-to-use as EmpMonitor<\/strong>. We will discuss more about this software as we proceed.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It usually becomes a challenge for the higher management to install monitoring software in an employee\u2019s computer because of the trust issues that show up between the two parties. Every employee wants to be trusted and treated fairly to maintain a healthy work relationship with their company. Hence, it becomes a sole responsibility of an employer to inform their employees much in advance about their system being monitored to maintain transparency.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for those cases where transparency is not a prerequisite then EmpMonitor has a special feature called \u201cstealth mode\u201d. Through this you can install the software without giving information to the employee and they would not become aware of it running in the background and tracking all of their computer\u2019s activities.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 2018 insider threat report whitepaper, it was mentioned that 53% of companies that were surveyed for this kind of threat have confirmed insider attacks against their organizations in the last one year and 27% have reported that it has become frequent for them.<\/span><\/p>\n

Employee monitoring has many intentions behind it but when it is specifically to prevent insider threat then transparency of this software cannot be maintained with the employees. They have to be tracked for every website they visit, for every application they use, for the emails they send, to whom do they send and even for the content of those emails. For such detailed monitoring, EmpMonitor has a robust design to withhold all of these features while monitoring a PC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To keep an insider threat in check there are a multitude of employee\u2019s behavioural aspects that have to be monitored. EmpMonitor does all of these jobs in a more comprehensive way than ever.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

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Let us see each of those points briefly:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Using external drives for downloading substantial amounts of data:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n