Overview
Our real-time monitoring and recording of laptop, desktop and application events provides the administrator with a auditable record of all changes being made on the laptop or desktop. Viewfinity's precise activity auditing feature provides a picture of all meaningful user/application activity for every laptop and desktop in easy-to-identify markers, such as:
- "Installation of non-compliant applications"
- "Start process AOL.exe"
- "Connected USB device"
- “Moved file customers.docx"
- "Uninstalled Anti Virus program"
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Audit Laptop & Desktop Events
When an audit needs to be performed on a specific PC, our Activity Auditing feature both expedites the process as well as aids in the interpretation of the results of the information collected. The IT Administrator simply accesses the desktop activity journal for the specific end user and a record of all recent desktop activities appears. Navigating through the Activity Auditing journal is easy because the information is presented in several drillable levels. Activity events can be filtered by application, file updates, copy, move events, application installations and removals, as well as the usage of any external devices such as USB drives. The filter option can also be applied by time/date settings or to a date range.
Because the desktop activity information can be presented using flexible filtering options, you can easily drill down to find the information you need. Decisive actions can be immediately taken, such as blocking unapproved applications, establishing policies to prevent the use of IM when users are connected to the network, or elevating privileges so users can work with certain applications that may require administrator rights.
Screen Recordings of Desktop Activity
For every relevant desktop activity, Activity Auditing can optionally capture screen recorded video of laptop and desktop activity including user data and application events. Screen recordings of desktop activity offer another layer of auditable changes occurring on desktop. The recorded screen capture activity logs are configurable according to specific requirements. For example, if management has an idea that an employee is involved in non-compliant activity, the screen recording video can be enabled for his specific computer and that user's activity will be recorded. The activity logs are compressed and stored locally on the endpoint client. This architecture was designed to minimize bandwidth usage — the log file containing the stored rollback events and screen recorded video clips is only transferred to the Viewfinity server when requested by the IT administrator.
Even if the laptop is completely disconnected from the corporate network, the Viewfinity agent will still record the user's desktop activity and also capture and save a screen-recorded video of the user actions if that option has been enabled. Activity event log files are customizable either on a global or computer level for a specified time period or storage capacity.
Key Features
- Filters events to quickly pinpoint potential compliance issues
- Aggregates events into an intuitive navigation structure for easy classification; drill down by:
- File Events
- User Personality Settings changes
- Applications (Usage, Install, Uninstall)
- Logs are customizable for a specified time period or storage capacity setting, at the global setting level or even at the computer activity level
- Built-in search capabilities provide an easy method for finding specific entries
- Navigates to exact name and path locations of files recently moved, copied (for example, user copied list of customers to USB disk)
- Presents activity audit events in easy to read screen recorded video clips and/or screen shots thumbnails
- Activates or deactivates screen shot and/or recorded video capture setting by computers and/or user
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