MONITORING SOFTWARE BLOG

Keeping sensitive data is often a legal requirement for any sized business. Of course, the type of necessary security protections will depend on the type of data being protected, which may require that businesses maintain PCI compliance, SOX compliance, or compliance regulations under GDPR and CCPA.  

There is also a range of solutions that a business could employ to protect sensitive data and which also abide by stringent data security controls. And given the rise of data breaches and insider attacks, businesses and organizations need to consider employing multiple security solutions. 

With the rise of remote workplaces, given the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolution of remote work technology, more businesses can implement remote work to keep business operations flowing smoothly. Of course, with remote work comes a plethora of security risks and new vulnerabilities. Therefore, it is up to the organization to ensure that the operations in place will not only keep the business protected but also follow legal jurisdictions around employee surveillance. 

Whether the solution is temporary or you are looking for something more permanent, your organization needs to ensure that your business is monitoring your remote employees. You also need to make sure that everything you are doing is legal. A system administrator can assist you in this. 

Read on to learn how your system administrator job role can be extended to ensure legal remote monitoring practices. 

Any size business, organization, or governmental agency collects customer information. Whether you accept orders or provide a service, your business is involved in the transaction of sensitive customer data. 

There are rules and regulations around how customer data should be handled. For example, businesses that sell to California residents must abide by the CCPA or the California Consumer Privacy Act. While this is essentially good for your customer’s personal data, it often creates a lot more work for businesses that aren’t prepared for data security. If you’re a small business, then you might struggle to inform your customers of their privacy rights, which may be required by regulation, and to store data correctly. 

Cyberattacks and data fraud attacks were one of the top seven worries for business leaders. According to the World Economic Forum’s COVID-19 Risks Outlook, businesses rated their most worrisome risks for the upcoming year. Among a prolonged recession and industry failures, cyberattacks were rated to worry 50.1% of companies. 

With security threats on the rise, businesses need to be prepared. Here are the top 5 security challenges and how implementing employee monitoring software can address them. 

Unlike at a physical location, a business cannot check-in on their remote workers. Instead, they must do so with the support of technology.

Employee monitoring software, like that provided by SoftActivity, is a monitoring tool that can be deployed to remote employee computers and installed to track time, projects, and remote workplace productivity. Implementing remote employee monitoring is easy and worthwhile.

Read on to see how it can help you identify if your remote employees are working or slacking off!

Back in February, a Romanian Threat researcher was able to tap into the IT systems of some of the largest companies in the world. As a threat researcher, it is the job of people like Alex Birsan to find vulnerabilities in computer systems. 

This hack, also known as penetration testing, was planned: the companies were alerted to the potential hack, and no sensitive information was accessed. Nonetheless, Birsan’s work highlights common vulnerabilities that exist in just about every computer system. 

Ever since John Kindervag introduced the concept of zero-trust in network security, businesses have been attempting to implement it into organizations as an active model for company security. 

Current industry experts like John Fruehe (independent analyst) and Tony Velleca (CISO at UST Global) agree that zero-trust is a) being talked about more and more, b) going to be necessary for high-profile companies, and c) can be challenging to implement. 

So with all the buzz around zero-trust, you might be wondering if your business should be concerned about your lack of zero-trust. Or, maybe you’re ready to implement a stricter security policy to prepare for network security advances.