criterion b/2

Criterion B

The IT system that is used is not that sophisticated, the Software is written to keep track on the things that the employee are looking at on the computer screen. It is specifically made for this scenario, where the manager wants to observe what his employee’s are working on and what his employees are looking at in their computer, since the computer could be used for a number of different purposes. The main purpose for this software is to allow the manager to observe what his employees are doing.

This software is linked to the Network that is used in the office (which is linked to all the computers in the office or building, look at figure 1), so the software will be transmitting the information from the employee’s work office (what he is looking at) to the manager in charge of keeping track of the employee’s work. The software is very sneaky in withholding the information on the employee screen, because it hacks into the computer and with these following methods; Packet sniffers, Log files, Desktop monitoring programs, Closed-circuit cameras, they could instantly observe what the employee is doing(look at figure 1). Some of the names that are given to these programs consist of Shadow, SpyAgent, Web Sleuth and Silent Watch.




Figure 1