Monitoring
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Employee Monitoring/Corporate data theft Overview:
Executive Overview:
Since identity theft has become old news, cybercriminals are looking to corporate data theft as their new gravy train, USA Today reports. A host of online corporate theft has descended on the United States recently, and hackers have found their way into everything from financial data and factory blueprints to product designs. Most often, according to experts, the culprit for such security lapses is employees' use of free Web-based e-mail and instant messaging clients, in lieu of those provided by the company. By hacking into these relatively vulnerable programs, attackers can find -- in addition to sensitive data transmitted via these Web-based platforms -- corporate e-mail addresses and log-ins, enabling them to infiltrate the business's database. One particularly shocking horror story relates to one corrupt Chinese businessman named Samson Wu who, in 2000, purchased data that was stolen from the Florida lighting manufacturer Super Vision International (now called Nexxus Lighting), including factory blueprints and business strategies. According to Super Vision founder Brett Kingstone, Wu built "an entire clone" of Super Vision's factory, spending $1.4 million dollars to construct in six months what it had taken Super Vision 10 years and $10 million to design and build. Now is not the time to think that your employees are diligently working. With the economy the way it is everyone is tightening their belts and making cuts. The unfortunate fact is that the majority of employees spend at least two hours a day using the internet for personal use. After you figure in wages, taxes and benefits, it can easily approach $200 a day per person in lost wages. I recently did monitoring for a large engineering firm located in California. Over 80% of the employees were wasting time on the computer. Including the IT staff, who are usually the biggest offenders. I was able to identify employees in violation of the Acceptable use Agreement and give a detailed report of each user to the CEO who made some tough decisions. Based on my findings he was able to stop a takeover, identify productive employees and had the Department of Justice step in to handle the breach of confidentiality. Our software monitors all PC activity: Sites visited Content viewed Applications used and frequency of use Breaks, time PC inactive Emails Files accessed and copied It is a silent install on the client PC, they have no idea it is there. We typically show up, deploy the software in the background and leave. We will come back a week later and retrieve the data, compile it into an easy to read executive overview for your use in discipline. Along with the overview, we will run the monitored employees through our private investigation department and you will receive a full background check for those employees you have asked us to monitor. This data is admissible in court should an issue arise. We also offer a second approach. We can be hired on by your company and provide you with real time input and daily briefings on what is happening behind your backs. Because our consultants spend much of their time in the field at a client’s facility, we established a decentralized office at the onset of the company. We provide highly available IT and Telecommunications services to our technicians while maintaining a small office with low overhead. As a result we are able to share these savings with our clients by delivering cost effective IT Solutions. To contact us regarding monitoring, click here
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