Organization and Technology of Information Management (MCAP-303)

Explore the Web site of online employee monitoring software such as SpectorSoft or SpyTech NetVizor and answer the following questions.
What employee activities does this software track? What can an employer learn about an employee by using this software? NetVizor is network employee computer monitoring software that invisibly monitors your entire network from one central location! NetVizor employee computer monitoring software can be remotely deployed across your network from a central location, allowing you to see and record everything that users do, perform remote administration tasks, view what users are doing in real-time, and generate comprehensive network activity reports. NetVizor can protect your network assets by alerting you in real-time when users modify files, move computers, transmit data to other locations, or even when they use a portable drive. From SpectorSoft Web site: The Spector Pro keylogger will instantly inform you whenever they type, or even simply view, any “alert words” or phrases that you specify. Spector Pro continuously looks for alert words in everything they type, every web site they visit, all chats/Instant Messages and in each email sent or received. Every time a keyword is detected, Spector Pro will immediately email you a detailed report of when, where and how the keyword was used. That really depends on what computer tracker you decide to use. For example, Spector Pro will record email, chat, web sites visited from places like MySpace or Facebook, peer to peer (also known as P2P) activity, programs launched, keystrokes typed, and snapshots which is much like a surveillance camera pointed directly at the monitor, secretly taking pictures of everything they are doing on the computer. Instead of logging keystrokes, the program takes pictures of the computer