SpectorSoft Corporation announced the new 2010 version of its flagship Spector 360, the most advanced company-wide monitoring, surveillance and investigation solution available in the market. Spector 360 captures everything that employees do on the PC and Internet, including Web sites they visit, emails sent and received, chats and instant messages, keystrokes typed, files transferred, documents printed, applications run, and much more. Through a first of its kind surveillance-like camera recording tool, Spector 360 shows in exact visual detail what an employee does every step of the way for granular analysis on the desktop. It also provides a corporate-wide perspective of employee activity and patterns with easy-to-read reports, a centralized dashboard, event alerts, and unlimited customization.

Some of the powerful new features incorporated in the 2010 version of Spector 360 include:

• Centralized Event Alerts – detect data from recorded user activity that matches conditions you specify, such as when an employee has saved a confidential company file to a USB drive, or searches for the keyword “porn” online. Spector 360 provides a range of pre-defined conditions that can be activated and scheduled at certain intervals. The product also records details about which user activities caused the alert to trigger for later analysis.
• New Control Center and Dashboard Views – facilitate one-stop, point-and-click administration of a Spector 360 installation, as well as dashboard views for event alerts, group-aware reporting, and Web event reporting by category.
• New Recording Support – capture activity for native 64-bit systems, Lotus Notes and Domino recording, Windows Terminal Services and Citrix published applications, plus screen snapshots with time and date stamps, and more.
• Automatic Updates – allow Spector 360 to be configured to automatically install the newest Activity Recorders and Web Filtering Domain Categories on every new computer that joins the network.
• Support for Massive Scalability – up to thousands of client desktops per single installation, limited only by server machine resources.

Spector 360 feeds all recorded activities into a database and provides more than 50 easy-to-read management reports. This allows employers to pinpoint who is wasting time on social networking sites, arriving late and leaving early, or sending the most emails with attachments. Keyword alerts can be set for any number of conditions that may conflict with or violate a company’s Internet Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) or a compliance regulation like HIPAA or CIPA.

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“This new version of Spector 360 gives companies increased visibility and insight to help prevent data loss and insider theft, and minimize productivity losses by stopping unwanted behavior at the source — which is almost always the click of a mouse or a keyboard,” said C. Douglas Fowler, President of SpectorSoft. “Spector 360 empowers companies of all sizes to address productivity, ethics, security, and compliance concerns head on by monitoring ‘human behavior’ as it relates to computer and Internet usage across the entire organization, day and night, 365 days a year.”

Pricing and Availability

Spector 360 is available for purchase at www.spector360.com starting at $1,995 for 15 licenses or $2,995 for 25 licenses, and ships with one full year of Premium Maintenance at no additional charge. It supports all major Windows operating systems and comes with MS SQL Server Express or MS SQL Server Standard (for 1000+ licenses) and requires at least 30 GB of free hard-disk space for a typical SQL database, with allowance for 50 MB per user per month.

About SpectorSoft

SpectorSoft is the recognized leader and pioneer in the PC and Internet monitoring software market. More than 500,000 consumers and 50,000 businesses, government organizations, schools, and law enforcement agencies have purchased SpectorSoft products to help keep kids safe online, and to prevent Internet abuse, data loss, and compliance violations in the workplace. Products include Spector Pro, eBlaster, Spector Pro mac, and eBlaster mac for home and office use; and Spector 360, Spector CNE Investigator, and Spector Server Surveillance Edition for corporate-wide monitoring and reporting. SpectorSoft has earned numerous awards for product excellence and been named five times to Inc. Magazine’s List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. For more information call (888) 598-2788 or visit www.spectorsoft.com.

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