Today StaffCounter is the first solution in the world that offers End-2-End Encryption (E2EE). All of the data captured from employee’s computers will be encrypted and decrypted only for account owner. Since this update, we hope to start an innovation for the entire industry of computer surveillance. The employee’s productivity data captured from end-point devices will be encrypted before transfer to our cloud service. The main difference with SSL encryption is that data still kept encrypted when it reaches StaffCounter cloud storage and further, it kept encrypted even in all types of running instances of the database, execution contexts, and processing algorithms within our cloud servers. When you login into your account the data is delivered to the web browser in initial encrypted form and being decrypted on-the-fly right in Web Browser page by using the Java-Script program and encryption features of the browser.  Here we explain how to update or install new StaffCounter agent software and set up E2EE encryption feature. 

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1. Before the installation, you need to disable the protection for a while. In the system tray, right-click the Kaspersky icon and choose the command Pause protection. 

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1. Before you download the Staffcounter application, disable please the protection of the Avast Security: Find the Avast icon in the system tray and perform a right-click on it. Find the option Avast shields control → Disable for 10 minutes.

   

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Even if there is no antivirus application on your computer, in Windows 8 and 10 exists the Windows Defender service, that can stop the StaffCounter application.

To prevent it you need to do the following:

1. Open the Control Panel and find the Windows security, using the Search field;

   

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We have implemented the ability to provide guest access to the department for managers. The task of the manager is to help the director to control the work of departments and assign productivity to programs and sites.

The manager has to register on the server and provide his email address to the director. The director logs in to his account, Settings page, and finds the Managers tab. Selects a department and enters the manager’s email address.
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We have published a new version of the StaffCounter application for Linux. This version is compatible with Ubuntu 20 and Mint 20. The 18th version of Ubuntu is also supported. For Mint 18 and Ubuntu 16 and older use previous versions of the Staffcounter application.

In the new version:

• Added support of Ubuntu 20, improved installation in Ubuntu 18;
• Added silent installation and auto-connection. Now you can install the application remotely without any external manifestations;
• Improved the auto-connection to the local StaffCounter Server;
• The deb package was improved. Now you can launch it from the File Manager, which makes the automatic computer restart. After the restart, the Staffcounter application will be automatically launched.

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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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Because of Pandemic and remote work, User Activity Monitoring and Time-Tracking solutions start being used more intensively by the corporate customers to manage a remote workforce. As a result, the most popular Time-Tracking SaaS solutions may be targeted by Malware, Cybercriminals, or Insider threats. As a response, we would like to announce the end-to-end encryption feature soon will become available for all StaffCounter customers. With “end to end” Encryption enabled, the data will be encrypted by StaffCounter Agents before upload to the staffcounter.net cloud and then decrypted in your web browser right in a moment when you are looking at the reports or employee productivity data. This provides the highest privacy level since data delivered to the cloud storage in encrypted form.  By using this principle employed in our cloud storage, technically we will not be able to read and understand productivity data received from computers by any means, on any level. This will enable safe usage of Employee Monitoring (User Behavior Analysis) solutions in any environment, even with the most strict compliance and security policies and requirements. After this feature will be enabled by the customer, StaffCounter.net or StaffCounter On-premise server will store only encrypted data blocks for each computer or employee.
Further details will be added to this announcement soon.      

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