When people hear the word ‘keylogging’ they usually associate
it with Internet fraudsters and criminals who are looking for ways to
track the online activities of unsuspecting victims. What they are
looking for basically is a perfect opportunity to steal personal or
financial information and make away with what they have not worked for.
But
using keylogging hardware or software is not all bad. It is just a few
wrong eggs that have decided to use for evil rather than good.
Keylogging systems can be put to good gain by companies who want to
monitor the activities of their employees and be rest assured that they
are being productive on company time rather than playing video games or
browsing through porn sites.
Some people see this as an invasion
of privacy. But studies show that more and more employees are running
the companies that they work for into the ground simply because they are
not doing their jobs. Some workers even take it to the extreme by using
company assets or resources for their own personal businesses and
side-deals. This is unfair. Therefore, companies can be deemed justified
if they choose to keep an eye on their workforce during company hours.
Furthermore,
there is also the small matter of protecting company secrets and not
allowing sensitive information leak out to the outside world. It is
crucial that employees keep corporate information within the company and
not take it out where it can be used by the competition or manipulated
by others for suspicious purposes.
Having well-positioned cameras
or a no nonsense policy against lazying around during company time,
hardly does any good. It might come in handy if your workforce is made
up of about 10 people. But how do you deal with a company that has 100’s
of people on the payroll? How do you begin to check on employees in
offices spread all over the world? It is practically impossible to stop
these people from abusing company time unless you have a USB keylogger
on their systems. The price that you would use for setting this up is
small as compared to what lazy or dishonest workers could cost a
company.
Protect the interests of your company or business by
setting up hardware keylogger to monitor the online activities of
workers. Tell your hired hands about what you have done. This way you
have all your bases covered and nobody instituting any legal action
against you for unfairly playing the ‘peeping Tom’ without telling them.
Using a keylogging system would do nothing but good things for your
company, because everybody would be focused on work and why they earn
their salaries.