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 criterion for detection. For example, keyboard monitoring behavior, screenshots, or screen-reader behavior is now considered as possibly dangerous. Therefore, in some cases, you need to add the StaffCounter program to the list of exceptions. StaffCounter also has an integrated file system filter driver for the DLP component and a big part of networking code for data upload, so by the behavior, it may look like 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 a 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 →

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) article 30 is talking about “Records of processing activities” and article 32 talking about technical measures. In this blog, we want to  focus on how StaffCounter can help to adhere the broad requirements of Article 32  with the various monitoring and auditing tools offered by the solution.

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We are happy to announce xUbuntu support. Now it is possible to install StaffCounter monitoring agent on Linux xUbuntu 18, 64-bit version. The installation procedure and the features are the same as on Ubuntu. So, the latest version of StaffCounter for Linux  1.1.33 has been tested and can be installed on the following operating systems:

Download StaffCounter for Linux.

We will continue our expansion to support all major Linux systems. If you have any proposals and wishes use  our contact form for feedback.

User Behavior Analysis (UBA) is one of the effective insider threat prevention technology. UBA features helps with incidents response process to identify human factor vs other threats. StaffCounter UBA features creates detailed user activity log. This allows to store comprehensive journal that can be used during digital forensics process.

UBA features in StaffCounter:

• Collects events generated by computer user: file access, application usage, device usage/pluged-in
• Collects events inside applications:
  – Web Browser tabs with current url and web site title.
  – HTML data model in active web browser tab to identify known web applications like gmail, Facebook and fetch recipient names, chats, email content and attached or displayed PDF files and etc.
  – Skype conversation list and text chat window to collect communication history for each contact.
• Calculate the deviations in the collected data within a given period – user behavior pattern.
• Identify significant changes in user behavior pattern
• Alerts system owners if there are changes discovered that match predefined threshold.

You can try Staffcounter for free for 1 month for 10 employees.