It's all about distributing information - securely and responsibly.

The WebSpy Vantage Web Module is an internal website (Intranet) that enables administrators to securely distribute reports and information throughout an organization.

Employees are notified by email when there is new information available. They can log into the Web Module at any time to view the reports that have been published for them, and conduct ad-hoc drilldowns into the storages that have been published for them.

Publishing information to the Web Module can be regularly scheduled so that the relevant people have up to date information when they need it.

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Benefits

Distribute Information. Distribute Responsibility.

IT Managers are too often left with the responsibility of managing and enforcing acceptable Internet usage for the entire organization.

Using the Web Module administrators can distribute reports to managers or department heads that show the activity of their direct subordinates, placing the responsibility of enforcing acceptable usage with the managers themselves.

Empower Users. Full Disclosure.

You can use the web module to distribute reports to each member in your organization detailing their own personal Internet usage (sites visited, search terms used etc).

This empowers users to modify their own behaviour once they understand how much of their activity is productive or unproductive and what it costs the organization. It also serves as a gentle reminder to employees that their activities are being recorded and that they should keep their online behaviour within the bounds of the organization’s acceptable use policy.

From a privacy point of view, the Web Module is an easy way to provide employees with full disclosure regarding the information recorded about them.

Self Serve, On-Demand Investigation.

You can also use the web module to distribute original data storages to any of your organization’s members, enabling them to conduct their own ad-hoc drilldowns on any information they require. For example, distribute storages to HR managers enabling them to investigate the activity of employees that have handed in their resignation notice, but still have access to confidential company resources.

Protect Employee Privacy.

By assigning permissions to each of your Web Module users, you can ensure they can only view the reports they are allowed to view. However, some employees need to view the traffic of all users, but do not necessarily need to identify users. For example, a network administrator may need to view the amount of traffic downloaded from a particular site per user, but does not need to know which users where involved.

This is easily achieved using the ‘Identify users’ permission, which masks all usernames with a hash code.