Monthly Archive for September, 2007

Monitor and control your employees surfing habits!

In our days the technology is so advanced that almost all the companies have Internet connection. This is why employees can have access to almost every thing they want: email, instant messaging, Internet shopping, games and even personal company information. The Internet has proven itself to be an addictive distraction for employees.

This Internet abuse could cost your company thousands of lost work hours and less productivity, which can finally affect the growing business process. This is why you can not afford to trust your employees’ activities are in company’s interest only. For this kind of problems was developed the so called Internet Filtering solution.

Internet Filtering, also known as Content Filtering or Web Filter, represents a software solution that monitors the Internet traffic and blocks the access to certain websites and files.

An Internet Filtering application allows general surfing on the Internet to take place with the exception of the filtered sites, so the requested web pages are displayed only if they comply with the specified filters.

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Cyclope-Series improves its Employee Surveillance Solution with a Rules & Alerts Module

Many of our customers have requested a new feature for Cyclope which should allow them to define specific rules regarding the employees’ work schedule, idle time, internet activity and chat conversation. Consequently, the new version of Cyclope 3.9.2 comes to help managers and system administrators better monitor their employees and reduce the abuse and malpractice in their company. Through the new Cyclope we aim to provide solutions for decreasing web browsing for personal use, chat conversations and idle time.

The new feature of Cyclope 3.9.2 - the Rules&Alerts module - enables the manager to create rules for each employee or department and to monitor what rules have been broken, who broke them and the extent of the abuse. In the Statistics section, the alerts are activated only if the employee activity does not comply with the specified rules settings. Thus, the manager can easily find out if the maximum time accepted for web browsing or for chat conversations has been exceeded and by who.

To make your business more efficient do not hesitate to evaluate Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution 3.9.2 available at http://www.cyclope-series.com