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February 15, 2024

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Using an on-premise StaffCounter server in a closed enterprise without access to the Internet is a solution to the problem of data security.

 

Recently, the issue of data security at various enterprises has become especially relevant. The economic security of an enterprise, the political and military security of the country require many enterprises to disconnect most of their computers from the Internet and work offline within a local network. As a rule, such an enterprise has one or two computers that are not included in the internal network, but are connected to the World Wide Web to search for the necessary information and software. All other computers with already installed programs perform their work – calculations, analyzes, synthesis, design, design, etc.

For convenience, the enterprise has a local network to which, in addition to computers, printers, scanners, data and file servers and other devices are connected.
 
Each such enterprise must have an internal security service, whose tasks, in addition to labor discipline, also include data security. Before monitoring programs were available, all security had were surveillance cameras. Using surveillance cameras, they monitored who came and went when, and what they did at work. But the disadvantage of cameras is that they do not distinguish the contents of the monitor screen and do not prevent unwanted actions.
What actions could these be? A spy employee can copy important information onto a flash drive and take it away from the enterprise. He can launch a program – a virus, which he himself brought on a flash drive and destroy important information.
 
With the advent of monitoring programs, it is possible not only to track unwanted actions, but also to prevent them. The StaffCounter program can deny access to USB drives, cameras, phones, Bluetooth devices, and network folders. In addition, it can prohibit running programs from external drives, copying programs to the computer, and creating executable files on the computer. All this is implemented in the DLP module. More about DLP >>

To use the program in an offline network, there is a local copy of the StaffCounter server, which can be deployed on an enterprise computer as a virtual machine or by installing a Linux Ubuntu server on one of the computers. Detailed instructions for installing such a server are already posted on our website.

Any business can request a trial version of a local StraffCounter server from us and test it for free for 30 days. The question arises, how to register a server if it is offline? To register, you need a registration key, which, when sent to our server, generates an activation code. So, on a computer connected to the Internet, you can go to our key activation page and generate as many activation keys as there are computers you need to connect to the local server. And then simply register these activation keys on work computers in the registry in the Staffcounter folder.

StaffCounter is a synthesis of surveillance and reliable data protection.

Other data protection solutions from our company –

  • Rohos Logon Key is a program for restricting access to a computer using hardware keys.
  • Rohos Disk is a program for encrypting data on hard and removable drives.