Omniquad Desktop Surveillance Enterprise
Introduction Key Benefits Key
Features
In today’s office environment, IT misuse
is now known to be far more widespread and sophisticated than previously believed. With
Information Technology in every workplace, at every level, the real threat from misuse is
increasing.
As the use of IT revolutionises the workplace, your need to monitor performance and
efficiency must be paramount. With rigorous IT control systems in place, your organisation
can promote effective working practices and anticipate/prevent possible breaches of
security, confidentiality or even fraud. All of which, if neglected, may result in loss of
revenue and productivity.
The opportunity now exists to minimise misuse and maximise productivity with Omniquad
Desktop Surveillance, a powerful supervision tool enabling you to address your need to
increase enterprise productivity, monitor performance, control access, prevent misuse and
effectively manage intelligence.
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance combines:
The unique ability to create ‘video-like’ surveillance style records, similar in concept to CCTV but without need for hardware.
Real time activity monitoring covering the
Internet as well as every other aspect of computer usage.
Statistical logging.
Administrator alerts.
Blocking.
Illicit content recognition.
Additionally, Desktop Surveillance can be adapted to, and reflect, the distinctive and
demanding security policies of each user group, within your organisation.
Minimising Misuse
Implementing its unique ability to monitor content security, Omniquad Desktop Surveillance
allows you to minimise time, money and resources otherwise lost to counter productive and
potentially harmful activities. In planning for future growth, particularly with the
increasing use of the Internet and e-commerce, the implementation of effective information
security policies is critical to protect your most valuable asset - Information.
Management Intelligence
With the need to achieve ever-greater efficiencies by means of improving performance and
productivity, the ability to control costs must be based on accurate, reliable and cost
effective intelligence. Omniquad Desktop Surveillance, as an activity-monitoring tool,
allows you to highlight user work patterns and trends across your networks, providing you
with actionable intelligence.
The very fact that Desktop Surveillance is
running on a system can be a deterrent to misuse.
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The compiled activity logs will enable you to generate accurate user reports on accessed
web sites, applications, files and network resources. All information is stored in one
convenient resource, which can be inspected directly, or imported into a spreadsheet or
database for further analysis and data mining.
Security Intelligence
Information stored in the Omniquad Desktop Surveillance activity logs may expose
questionable usage patterns and reveal breaches of security.
Any user activity, application or keystroke sequence can, if required, trigger video-like
recording and generate visual records, which can be inspected at leisure.
Careful product design now allows an administrator to instruct Omniquad Desktop
Surveillance to monitor and record only unusual, unsolicited or prohibited activities. It
may also be used covertly, totally invisible to network users. Surveillance records may
then be forwarded away to a secured SMTP mail host or stored on an FTP server.
Until now, users intent on misuse have been able to freely do so, aware of the difficulty
in tracking and recording their activities. Omniquad Desktop Surveillance now addresses
this issue at source and provides a secure platform for complete intelligence management.
Securing quality of Internet content
As the use of the Internet and in all businesses becomes increasingly commonplace, so is
the probability of users accessing undesirable content.
Instead of your organisation being forced to adapt to policies and approaches imposed by
rigid content filtering and blocking tools, Omniquad Desktop Surveillance possesses the
ability to reflect your organisations Acceptable Usage Policy
(A.U.P).
When undesirable content is accessed, Omniquad Desktop Surveillance allows you to react in
a variety of ways:
- The Acceptable Usage Policy (A.U.P.) can be displayed to the user and recording can be
automatically turned on.
- Recording can be turned on and the network administrator alerted.
- The content can be blocked.
- The end workstation can be shut down and the user will need to contact the network
administrator.
- The network administrator can further customise Omniquad Desktop Surveillance by
instructing it to recognise only approved business-related web sites, whilst blocking all
others.
Access Control
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance can block virtually any activity that can take place on an
end-user desktop.
Not only can it block adult and illicit content, it can also deny access to individual
system and display settings, applications, web sites, documents, files, folders or even
network resources.
Blocking facilities in Omniquad Desktop Surveillance can be customised to create a
standalone access control solution, or used to enhance the existing set-up of Windows
95/98/NT User Policies.
The flexible design of Omniquad Desktop Surveillance allows it to be applied not only to
various network environments, but also to portable computers. Each portable computer has
the ability, in addition, to synchronise with the network server, once the user logs back
on to the network.
Preventing Fraud
Opportunistic fraud involving Information Technology is on the increase.
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance acts not only as a deterrent - but also aids any fraud
investigation by providing tamper-proof evidence of computer usage.
Litigation Protection
Recent harassment cases involving electronic communication tools such as email have proved
very costly to many organisations. The inappropriate content of both in and out bound
email communication poses a potential threat of litigation.
Companies are legally liable for materials stored on their networks. Internet content
blocking tools provide only a partial solution. In most workplaces, the Internet is rarely
the only platform upon which business tasks are based and carried out exclusively.
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance minimises the threat of litigation by means of policing your
organisation’s Acceptable Usage Policy (A.U.P.).
Two Modes of operation
Misuse Prevention. - Users are aware of the system running. It is commonly used to prevent unsolicited activities. A custom message can be displayed for users reminding them of Acceptable Usage Policy (A.U.P.) and a permanent icon can be displayed as a reminder that monitoring is in progress.
Stealth Surveillance - for security reasons,
users are not aware of the system running. There are no warning messages and the
application name is also removed from the Windows Task List.
Multiple Monitoring Facilities
Virtual Video: visual CCTV-style records of systems’ usage. Records are automatically catalogued and can be played back at leisure in a manner similar to watching security videotape. Visual recording for any workstation or user can be turned on permanently or triggered by a specific situation.
Keystroke Logs measure user’s keyboard activities. Typing any adult-related or user-specified words on the keyboard can also alert the network administrator and the Virtual Video facility recording can be turned on.
Smart Activity Logs store statistical
information about all activities taking place on any workstation, Internet web site,
application or document. Omniquad Desktop Surveillance provides realistic information
about users’ usage patterns as it differentiates between various loaded applications
and logs only the ones that have had user input. Various activities also time-out when
there is no input for a specific period of time - stored information is automatically
adjusted. The statistical information stored in the Smart Activity Logs can be used
to analyse specific usage patterns. The quantity of reports that can be generated
from various combinations of Activity Logs is almost unlimited.
Adult Content Filtering
Content filtering is based on word-phrase matching and will detect adult content when it
is accessed, without the need for updating blocking lists. The word-phrases can be
customised on per-group or per-user basis and include undesirable material such as lottery
or sports.
The word-phrase filtering can be fully customised and is active on all levels and will not
only cover Internet browsing, but also newsgroups and Internet Relay Chat (IRC). When
adult content is encountered, several steps can be taken: it can be blocked, the
administrator can receive a network alert and the Virtual Video can be turned on or the
system can be shut down.
Blocking
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance is capable of preventing the user from accessing adult
content, accessing banned web sites, loading specific applications or documents, browsing
specific folders in Windows Explorer or even changing workstation configuration. –
Virtually any activity can be banned.
The administrator can also train the system and identify only permitted activities - the
user will be prevented from doing anything else. If necessary, this can be limited only to
the Internet, on pre-approved business-related web sites. Users will no be able to load
any other web pages.
Networking
Uses industry standard TCP/IP protocol for real-time network operations.
Network alerts when IT policy has been compromised or a pre-defined event has been triggered.
Multi-view allows authorised user to monitor thousands of users at the same time.
Authorised users can remotely view contents of any desktop on the network.
Minimum network bandwidth through use of UDP
packet type.
Omniquad Desktop Surveillance records can be backed up using company’s present backup methods.
Remote file browser allows authorised user to access files on network workstations regardless of the file system sharing options set by the network user.
Easy network deployment requires adding one
registry entry and does not depend on any files to be stored on workstations.
Additional Management Features
Authorised users can start programs, documents, web sites and documents on remote workstations individually or in batches.
Remote start capability can be used for
software distribution and training.
Tamper-proof records.
Records can be optionally encrypted, thus
preventing unauthorised users from reading and altering them.
Minimal storage requirements
2GB of network storage will hold information about login times, accessed web sites, applications (even down to performing specific tasks in some programs), documents, files, folders or network resources of an average 1,000-desktop network for approximately 1 year.
A pre-set amount of network storage can be additionally allocated for each user to store Virtual Video data. Once the limit is reached, the oldest records can be automatically purged.
Once Omniquad Desktop Surveillance is
deployed across your network, it requires no further maintenance.
SMTP / FTP support
In mission-critical surveillance operations, records can be immediately removed from the local workstations and forwarded away though SMTP host, or stored directly on FTP server locally or on the Internet.
Company notebooks can automatically send
information back to the main office.
Database and Spreadsheet Compatibility
Smart Activity Logs data is stored in portable format and can be directly imported into a spreadsheet.
Special fields are pre-calculated for easy
import into any database system.
