Wavecrest Computing — Internet Filtering and Reporting Products

Reporting

Get a detailed and accurate picture of employees' Web-use activity.

Reporting Features

  • Customizable high and low-level reports show the activity of a single user, a specific workgroup, or the entire organization.
  • Interactive Reports provide single click action drill down so that you can quickly get more detailed Web use on a specific user, category, classification rating and more.
  • Internal Database speeds up reporting, easily handles large amounts of data, and lets  you export Web-use data to other applications for further analysis.
  • Automatic Abuse Detection system identifies Web abuse instantly.
  • Custom Categories allow you to monitor sites of specific interest.
  • Anonymous ID option ensures that ID names and IP addresses do not show in reports.
  • Report Scheduler runs and distributes reports automatically.
  • Access Accounts allow other personnel to run reports (supports Active Directory authentication).

Accurate Reporting

Web-use reports are often used as the basis for sensitive personnel actions and evidence in court. In both areas, erroneous information can lead to disastrous results.  Wavecrest ensures the accuracy of its reports by using a couple of methods that will give you a clear view of employees' Web activity.

  1. We Distinguish Visits from Hits.
    Wavecrest reports show actual human click actions (‘visits’ or 'page views') separately from automatically generated extraneous hits (ads, banners, graphics, audio, etc.). “Visits” count how many Web pages a user actually requested, not all the elements downloaded as a result of those requests.
  2. We Provide Reliable Metrics.
    Wavecrest reports do not measure how long a user was online, and the reason is simple. The fact that a user downloaded a Web page to a browser doesn't necessarily mean that he or she was actually looking at that page while it was "open." After all, the user could have suddenly received a phone call, gone to lunch, attended a short-notice meeting, been interrupted by a colleague, or gone to the restroom.  Also, users typically have more than one page "open" at a time, but only one is truly viewable.  When a computer user clicks on a URL, that action merely constitutes a one-time request for a document, and the "connection" with the server is immediately broken. There is no "session," no end-of-session, and no possibility of measuring duration.

Interactive Reporting

With Interactive reports, you can quickly drill down to get more detailed Web-use data by simply clicking on a report's elements.  It is an efficient way to get the detailed reports that you need.  It can also save administrators and report recipients a tremendous amount of time.  It eliminates the need to log in to the product to run a detailed report on the same time frame.  Instead, an audit detail report for the same time period can quickly be retrieved by simply clicking on a user, category, etc.  The image below illustrates how Interactive Reporting works.

Run a High-Level Summary Report
A Site Analysis report, for example, will show the number of Web visits that were acceptable, unacceptable, or neutral for the specified time period.  To get more detailed data on the Unacceptable visits, simply click on "Unacceptable" and an Unacceptable Visits report will run.

 


Drill Down to an Unacceptable Visits Report
The Unacceptable Visits report will show all unacceptable categories, the users, and the number of visits to each unacceptable category.  If a potential problem area is spotted, i.e., a user has an excessive number of visits, just click on the ID Name or IP address, and a User Audit Detail report will run.

 


Drill Down Further to a User Audit Detail Report
A User Audit Detail report is one of the most detailed reports Cyfin offers.  This report includes every URL that a user visited, its category, and the date and time that the user accessed the Web page.

Sample Reports

High-Level Activity – Click on the links below to see excerpts from our most-used high-level report, "Site Analysis." They provide a quick look into a company's overall Web use.

Low-Level Activity – Click on the links below to see the extensive and detailed drill-down capability built into Wavecrest's reports.

Abuse-Detection – Based on your company's Web use policy, you can specify how many visits are acceptable in each Web category in a 24 hour period.  If this threshold is exceeded by users, the reports will show it.  Click below to see how Wavecrest's products automatically flag instances of abuse based on your threshold criteria.

Report Descriptions

Cyfin Reporter has numerous standard reports with customizable parameters to give you the employee Web-use and bandwidth utilization information you need.  See all report descriptions.

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