New Software Blocks Employees From Acessing Social Networks

A new software has been developed to help employers monitor employees spending much of their time on social networking websites especially facebook. This aims at improving productivity of staff in organizations.

Cyberoam (Indian company offering IT solutions) has unveilled a program meant to offer network security to small, medium and large enterprises.

The program is known as Unified Threat Management (UTM), it has multiple security features which are integrated over a single platform.

Manish Karanji, the Cyberoam manager in charge of international sales, explains that UTM is a unique program that embeds user identity in the firewall rule matching criteria, offering instant visibility and proactive controls
over security breaches and eliminating dependence of IP addresses.

UTM also helps monitoring how users are using a particular network, at the same time raises alarm on websites which have viruses; the program also offers security of information, meaning it would be hard for hackers to acquire information in a UTM protected network.

“Since employers can monitor how their employees are using the internet, the habit of some workers spending most of their time on social websites, could be eliminated, meaning productivity among workers will also improve,” Karanji advises.

Job Ngai, the business development executive for i-MAST Africa which is among the IT companies selling Cyberoam services, highlights that the program protects information from disappearing whenever the server encounters a technical fault.

“I encourage Rwandan institutions to use UTM since it enables IT personnel to detect a problem like a virus or intrusion hence stored information is always safer.”

Commenting on the above issue, Jean de dieu Habyiramye a technician working with NEXTLEC, another company offering computer solutions, highlights though the sale of UTM has not commenced yet, the program will likely replace a similar mechanism known as fire-wall.

The latter program for instance can’t tell an intrusion from a hacker for instance, more so, fire-wall can’t give analysis of internet usage in a particular organizations.