Employee monitoring has been around for a long time, from video surveillance, to check in/out systems. With the digital era, these methods only go so far. Files can be stolen, people may be wasting time surfing the net or looking at inappropriate sites. A level of monitoring on a employee is needed. Where I work now, we deployed a program call Spector 360 by Spectorsoft. The need arose as we suspected certain employees of stealing company assets such as confidential files etc. Of course we had no real proof, thus needed a solution to covertly collect data on the employee so we had proof and thus take legal action. I installed a demo of Spector 360 and was amazed at how much data it collected. It collected what sites where visited for how long, what people were searching online, all email activity, application usage, file transfer information, chat logs, keystrokes, even desktop snap shots each second, etc. I could even setup keyword alerts.

Everything Spector records

Spector 360 installs an agent on the remote machine. The agent is not found in program files and the actual process is named something completely different thus not to tip off the employee being monitored. The agent reports back to the Spector 360 server. From the Dashboard on the server you you can view and monitor every aspect of your employees actions on company machines.

Spector 360 Dashboard

From within the dash board you can hammer down on an individual employee, and see all actions of that employee, or find out information such as most visited site and by whom, employee you sent most emails, etc

Spector 360 quick view

I have looked at a few different monitoring systems but non of them have come close to giving me so much flexibility and ease then Spector 360, I definitely recommend this if you are looking for an employee monitoring suite.