Cyber security Tips

Computer monitoring tools are used to keep tabs on what's being done on any specific computer or network of connected computers. Business people often use these to monitor employee activities to see whether they are actually earning their pay by working, or spending hours on internet casinos and instant messaging friends for hours on end... or worse, embezzling funds and stealing client accounts. Parents use these too, so that they can protect their children from sexual predators and keep an eye on their children's activities online to see that they don't get into anything pornographic. But how intrusive are these programs?

They're not very intrusive at all, if you ask me. You see, these can be run invisibly and silently, automatically running and recording activities right from the startup of the computer. There doesn't even need to be any evidence that the software exists on the PC. All activities, keystrokes, pages visited, clicks of the mouse, instant messages and such are all recorded onto secret log files which are then stealthily e-mailed to you in secret for your leisurely perusal.

This is also a boon to those who suspect their spouses or relationship partners of cheating, but lack the power of solid, concrete proof. Using computer monitoring tools for these purposes, you can be sure that everything can be done with absolute secrecy, you can protect yourself and your children, and even protect your business and your clients' delicate private and financial information. It's all about safety, security, and just good common sense. Don't you agree?

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Bandwidth Monitor
Daily, weekly, and monthly information logs * Compatible with all versions of windows * Options and graphs for capped users * Multiple users and selectable adapters * Network and dial-up connections * English, Italian, German, and Russian

FREEping - Server Pinging
Do you want to know if all your Windows 2003-XP-2000-NT servers are alive and pinging? Do you want to receive a pop-up message when one of them is not running anymore? FREEping is a free ping software utility which will ping all your IP addresses in free-definable intervals. FREEping automatically pings in the background and shows statistics for each pinged hosts. When a host stops responding, FREEping can send popup messages to a specified destination.

Servers Alive
Servers Alive is an end-to-end network monitor program. Among the many checks it can do: it can monitor any Winsock service, ping a host, check if an NT service/process is running, check the available disk space on a server, retrieve a URL, check your database engine, and more.

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In the following Today Show segment, Donna Rice Hughes, President of Enough is Enough, and Michelle Borba, Educational Psychologist, discuss Internet safety with Matt Lauer. The question posed is, "Should parents snoop on their children with spyware or use an open monitoring/filtering solution?" Parents have mixed reactions to the use of spyware with some believing that it is a necessary tool to help keep their child safe online, while others believe it's a violation of privacy and there are other alternatives to keep tabs on their child such as "friending" them on social networking sites. There isn't a wrong answer - it really comes down to parenting style and family norms as to what protective measure parents put in place. The most important point is for parents to put measures in place - it takes, as Donna says during the segment, "rules and tools." Parents need to set the rules regarding expectations of online behavior, including consequences of violating those rules, and use tools to help monitor their child's online activities.

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