Ascendant NFM - Spytech Spy Monitoring Software

Are you concerned if sensitive data and assets on your network are being tampered with without your knowledge? Is is possible that network users are leaking information from your network to someone outside? Perhaps they are downloading media files on work time and not staying on task.

Ascendant NFM can log every file action on your network. Every file that is opened, created, modified, or deleted by users will be logged. The full file path along with the user that performed the action, and at the time the action occurred is logged. NFM can show you if sensitive files are being modified, and it can show you everything a user downloads when they think no one is watching. Should you wish to restrict network wide monitoring to only specific files you can use the built-in filtering mechanism that will allow you log only specific files, directories, or file types on your network.

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Do you wonder if employees or network users are installing and running software they should not be? Are they playing games or chatting when they should be working or completing an important task?

Ascendant NFM can log and show you a list of applications each user on your network uses. Each application log includes the name of the user that executed the program, and when they executed it. If your network users are playing games, running chat software, browsing the web, or running legitimate productivity applications you will know. With a single click you can view all applications a selected computer has used (sorted by user), or all applications used on your entire network.

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Are your network users browsing the web during work shifts? Should they be staying on task instead of looking at countless websites? Do you need to know what websites your users are going to?

Ascendant NFM can log every single website event that occurs on your network. Ascendant NFM can log and show you every website users visit with Internet Explorer or Firefox, allowing you to rest easy knowing exactly where your users are going. Website logs can be viewed by computer, or for the entire network in a single click. The website logs will show you what websites were visited by each user on your network computers.

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If you have sensitive data on your network and a malicious user modifies it or deletes it - do you have a copy? Would you like to see a copy of every website users visit while they are supposed to be working? Perhaps you need to track a large project directory and need to have copies of all new files and modifications.

Ascendant NFM can watch over all file events and selectively archive files that you specify to a secure location. NFM can archive files by specific names (such as payroll-records.db), by file extensions (such as .htm or .doc), and even directory paths (such as Temporary Internet Data). NFM can be set to retain the most recent modified copy of each file filter you specify, or it can retain every copy that is made, ensuring data is not lost, and tracks are not covered.

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Do you have sensitive data that requires your attention in the event that it is modified by a user on your network?

Acting as a data watchdog, Ascendant NFM can passively watch every file event users perform on your network. When a specified file is modified or deleted you can receive an email alert instantly detailing the event that occurred so you can take action. You can specify file alerts by specific file names, file extensions, or directory names.

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Ascendant NFM’s comprehensive reporting tools can generate a handful of unique reports that allow you to easily assess your network data situation without having to pour through thousands of log entries. Reports that NFM can generate are:

All reports are generated in a sleek, easy-to-read and print HTML format and can be prepared for specific dates, or all dates logged. Report icons are customizable for company printouts as well.

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Ascendant NFM has a built-in log viewer that allows you to view and manage all file usage logs from your network in one location.

Ascendant NFM’s logging capabilities can produce a large amount of data. To make log management easier, all logs for your entire network are viewable simply by selecting one or more (or all) computers and viewing their usage logs with a click of the ‘View’ button. To help you find specific log entries all logs can be searched by time, username, or keyword. Log entries can be filtered by date, also. Once you are done viewing logs, you can use the log archive feature to save logs to a safe place while clearing out your current log-set to make log browsing a more manageable task. All logs - including generated log search results for keywords, dates, users, etc. - can be saved with a click of your mouse for future reference.

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Would you like to be able to receive email activity logs while you are off-site and are unable to access the NFM logs physically?

Ascendant NFM has the ability to gather up all file usage logs for all network computers and send them to you via email at at time interval you set. All logs are formatted for easy viewing in HTML format. If you are away from the NFM console for an extended period of time you can have NFM clear all activity logs every time it sends you a batch of logs.

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Would you like to be able to monitor your entire network from one central location without having to install software on any of the computers to do it?

Ascendant NFM is unique in that it requires no software installation on any of the computers you wish to monitor - only a username and password for the computer. The only software that is necessary is the main Ascendant NFM program that gets installed on the computer you want to monitor your network from. This means that you can have NFM set up and monitoring your network in minutes - as opposed to having to do a complete roll-out to every workstation, along with applying configurations for each one. NFM’s monitoring is totally undetectable by users.

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Ascendant NFM is built with ease-of-use in mind. It’s intuitive user interface effectively ties all of its powerful features together, creating a tool that does not require a ‘learning curve’ to get used to.

Ascendant NFM’s sleek user interface is very easy to navigate and use. All relevant features can be accessed from a list of options. Computers can be added to the monitoring list using the built-in wizards, and can be then edited later on using the same wizards. Log viewing and report generation features are all accessible with a single mouse click on the main interface. No software needs to be installed on monitored computers, so there never is a need to perform an uninstall when you are done monitoring a computer on your network - just delete it from the computer list.

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Ascendant NFM has a handful of features not listed above, but are just as useful and important for users.

Settings Importing/Exporting
If you ned to transfer the NFM software to another computer you can quickly export ALL settings for all computers on your network for easy importing to the NFM software installed on another computer.

Password Protected Monitoring
NFM’s monitoring process can be password protected so users that have access to your computer cannot stop its monitoring.

Performance Adjustments, Debug Mode, Customized Log Storage
NFM has a handful of advanced options that let you increase NFM’s performance on slower computers, enable a debug mode for addressing connectivity issues, and even specify a log storage location for all of the NFM logs.

• $4.5 billion losses per Fortune 500 company - Confidential surveys indicate data theft losses are staggering, and as much as 80% of losses are due to insiders.²
• The FBI estimates $2 billion a month due to loss of trade secrets.³
• Internet misuse at work is costing American corporations more than $85 billion annually in lost productivity. (Websense, 2003)
• The number of malicious code attacks with backdoors, which are often used to steal confidential data, rose nearly 50% in the last year. (Symantec, 2003)
• 75% of companies cited employees as a likely source of hacking attacks. (CSI/FBI, 2003)
• 45% of businesses had reported unauthorized access by insiders. (CSI/FBI, 2003)
• Nearly 80 percent of instant messaging in companies is done over public IM services such as AOL, MSN and Yahoo, exposing companies to security risks. (Radicati, 2003)
• There are more than 43 million users of consumer IM at work. (IDC, 2003)
• 80 percent of companies reported that employees had abused Internet privileges, such as downloading pornography or pirated software. (CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, 2003)
• A company can be liable for up to $150K per pirated work if it is allowing employees to use the corporate network to download copyrighted material. (RIAA, 2003)

Prevent Data Theft by Monitoring Assets for Changes

Ascendant NFM can watch specific files and directories that are, or contain sensitive data. If any of these specified files are modified to any extent NFM can immediately alert you via email detailing what happened. Email alerts will tell you what user performed the modification, and when.

Archive Copies of Sensitive Data to Prevent Malicious Actions

Ascendant NFM can monitor your sensitive data files or directories for changes. Whenever a file is modified a copy of the new file can be saved to a location on your network, thus protecting against malicious data modifications.

Track Web Usage and Download Behavior

Ascendant NFM can be used to track website usage and download behavior by being set to archive any web related (i.e.: html files) and download file extensions (i.e.: video files, tars, zips, torrents).