Employee Monitoring and User Activity Monitoring, Without an Agent
You are evaluating how to monitor employee web use. Cyfin takes a different approach. It reports on the web traffic your firewall already records, so you get clear, human-only web use reports without installing anything on employee devices.
Analytics Without Surveillance
Most employee monitoring tools ask you to install an agent on every device and then watch the person: screens, keystrokes, and productivity scores. Cyfin does not work that way. Cyfin reads the standard network records your firewall already generates and turns them into human-only web use reports for investigations and policy compliance. It shows which sites and tools employees use, by whom, and how often. It is not a productivity scoring product and it is not a dashboard that grades people.
Put plainly, there is no agent, no screen capture, no keystroke logging, no audio, and no video. You get the visibility you are shopping for, built on records your organization already keeps, and far less sensitive data collected in the process.
A Different Approach to Monitoring Employee Web Use
The contrast with agent-based tools is simple. Cyfin never touches the endpoint. It reports on the web traffic that already flows through your firewall, so the record you rely on is the same kind of business record your organization already generates and retains.
- Agentless. Cyfin reports on the web traffic your firewall already records. Nothing is installed on employee devices, and there is no rollout to manage.
- Less invasive by design. No screen capture, no keystroke logging, no audio, and no video. That means less sensitive data collected and fewer privacy questions to answer.
- Standard network records. Cyfin works from the log data your firewall generates as a matter of course, the same category of records the organization already keeps.
For HR, Compliance, and Management
When a workplace investigation needs to happen, HR should not have to wait in a queue. With Cyfin, HR can pull human-only web use reports and drill down to URL-level detail directly, without routing every request through IT and without technical interpretation of raw logs.
- Independent investigations. HR runs its own web use reports and drills to the detail an investigation needs, on its own schedule.
- Defensible business records. Because the reports are built from the standard network records the firewall already logs, they are consistent, repeatable business records HR and compliance can act on with confidence.
- Acceptable use and regulatory obligations. Clear web use reporting helps you write acceptable-use policy from actual usage, confirm it is being followed, and support the regulatory obligations your organization already carries.
Reports That Reflect What a Person Actually Did
Raw firewall logs are full of automated traffic that no person chose to generate. Cyfin filters that background noise out before a report is produced, so what HR reads reflects deliberate employee activity, not machine chatter. A few common examples of the noise Cyfin removes:
The Facebook Like button
A single Like or share button embedded on an unrelated page can log as a visit to Facebook, even though the employee never went there. Cyfin does not count it as one.
Windows Update connections
Operating system and software update checks reach out to the internet on their own and can inflate a person's apparent activity. Cyfin filters these automated connections out.
A refreshing weather widget
A weather or news widget that reloads on a timer can appear as repeated visits to the same site. Cyfin recognizes the pattern so it does not read as deliberate browsing.
For IT: Agentless Deployment
Cyfin fits the infrastructure you already run. It reads the log data your existing firewalls already produce, so there is no endpoint software to package and no device rollout to schedule.
- Works with your existing firewalls, including Palo Alto Networks, Cisco ASA and Firepower, and Fortinet.
- Not just firewalls. Cyfin also reads logs from proxies and secure web gateways, so it works with whatever web-traffic records your environment already produces.
- No endpoint software and no device rollout. Nothing is installed on employee machines. There is nothing to push, patch, or uninstall later.
- Integrates with the logs you already collect. Cyfin works from standard network records, so it adds a reporting layer rather than new data collection.
- Reduced burden on IT. Configure Cyfin once and HR self-serves its own reports from that point on, instead of routing investigation requests back through your team.
We just completed a rigorous evaluation of Wavecrest Computing's web-access reporting product Cyfin. We found that Cyfin produces comprehensive information that can help managers quickly correct inappropriate or ineffective surfing.
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