Re: User Activity Monitoring

[Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>]

On 2004-08-24 Edwin Rene wrote:
> 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.

If your users have administrative privileges, there's exactly nothing
you can do to prevent them from copying files or disabling whatever tool
you are running to monitor their acitivities.

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