RE: User Activity Monitoring

["McDonald, Gray" <MCDONALDG () MAIL ECU EDU>]

Monitoring won't be protection for file copying.  You give me the
hardware and I'll get the data off if I really want it.  I'll just boot
off a live Linux CD, fire up the file system drivers and copy away.

-----Original Message-----
From: edwin () link net id [mailto:edwin () link net id] 
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 3:41 AM
To: gillettdavid () fhda edu; security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: User Activity Monitoring

David,

Sorry to confuse you. What I meant was, that basically we would only
like to
monitor what program they use offline and restrict copying files from
their
lap top to another media/ computer. And there are concerns from the IT
manager that if there's a keylogging ability on the program the officers
that would do log/results checking would abuse or misuse the
logs/results.
Therefore the program should be able to monitor what they do but
shouldn't
have any keylogging ability. I know it's a wierd but that's what we're
dealing with now.

Thanks ^__^

Ed
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>
To: "'Edwin Rene'" <edwin () link net id>; "'Security-Basics'"
<security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 10:12 PM
Subject: RE: User Activity Monitoring


>   There's a certain security usefulness (which needs to be balanced
> against issues of morale and trust...) to letting users think you're
> monitoring them more than you can really afford to.
>   But when you say
>
> > monitoring users activities off the the network
>
> AND
>
> > and we don't want them to think with this program we are monitoring
> > what they doing.
>
> well, that basically sounds like entrapment, or worse.
>
>   Perhaps I (or you?) have misunderstood the purpose of this
> exercise?
>
> Dave Gillett
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Edwin Rene [mailto:edwin () link net id]
> > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:56 PM
> > To: Security-Basics
> > Subject: User Activity Monitoring
> >
> >
> > Hullo,
> >
> > I'm a new security officer of a small company with some
> > mobile users, I'd
> > like to know programs out there there could restrict users
> > from copying
> > files to another computer or monitoring users activities off
> > the the network
> > / at home that doesn't have a key logger because we can't set
> > restriction
> > for users since the need administrative rights to run certain
> > program and we
> > don't want them to think with this program we are monitoring what
they
> > doing.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
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