We are glad to announce that the StaffCounter app for Android has been published again in the Play Market. In accordance with the requirements of Google, SMS recording and telephone call logging have been removed from the program. However, monitoring of applications and user coordinates remains.

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The full version of the StaffCounter for Android can be downloaded from our website >>

If you need advanced features like invisibility, call recording (both GSM and VoIP), photos from the camera, SMS, then you can use the PRO version for Android, which is available for all the users to test. 

The users with Professional subscriptions can use it without restrictions.

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 As a part of continuous developments we would like to announce P2P Encryption feature soon will became available for all StaffCounter customers. With P2P Encryption enabled, the data will be encrypted by StaffCounter Agents before upload to cloud server and then decrypted in your web browser right in a moment when you are looking at the reports or employee productivity data. This provides highest privacy level since data delivered to the cloud storage in encrypted form. For this feature we have employed Public Key Encryption protocols that allows to securely transfer master key across all of the connected computers without exposing it to StaffCounter server. By using this principle employed in our cloud storage, technically we will not be able read and understand productivity data received from computers by any means, on any level. This will enable StaffCounter usage in any environment, even with the most strict compliance and security policies. After this feature will be enabled by customer, StaffCounter will store only encrypted data blocks for each computer or employee.
Further details will be added to this announcement soon.      

Working from home (WFH) or remote-work has been known only as exceptional practice in the workplace, until COVID-19 pandemic shifted the attitude in a significant way. From the point of view of employees, remote work is often associated with the perceived increase of job satisfaction, for example by working from any location around the world (freelancers), by having individual work environment or by having more trustful relationships inside company. From the point of view of management, remote employees brings great managerial issues like loss of control. Today top management is still skeptical about remote workers because they question the ability of their staff to handle remote infrastructure, take responsibility for confidential data, solve any situation independently and manage their time or work properly without supervision. But the latest developments in Surveillance economy brings fresh solutions. Properly selected “Security as a Service” tools (SECaaS or SaaS) are able to cover distributed end-points into a single virtual dashboard, capture new kind of productivity data, and thus allows better control and decision making over a remote workforce. 

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Recently StaffCounter had a number of False-Positive cases with different AVs software like Kaspersky, BitDefender, McAfee, Malwarebytes, Windows Defender etc. Kaspersky Antivirus (AV) protects your computer from various threats such as viruses, spyware, ransomware, banners, and others. But AV vendors are not supposed to know all existing enterprise monitoring software, so they started to add software behavior patterns as a criteria for detection. For example keyboard monitoring behavior, screenshoting or screen-reader behavior is now considered as possible dangerous. Therefore,in some cases you need to add the StaffCounter program to the list of exceptions. StaffCounter also has integrated filesystem filter driver for DLP component and a big part of networking code for data upload, so by the behavior it may look as Remote Access Trojan (RAT) but it is not so of course. As a part of transparency we offer StaffCounter prior versions as open source.

Currently we are working with each vendor to add StaffCounter exception for each false-positive case. In this article, we will describe in detail the entire process of adding Staffcounter to the exception list of the Kaspersky Small Office Security 8. But the same principle may work for other AVs. 

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System administrator usually has to protect corporate network from inside and outside threats and block them. To help administrators to deal with it, we created our product – StaffCounter DLP. What can it do? Continue reading article →