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ScreenShield™
in the Business World
| Advances in information
technology have made a wide range of information easily
available to employees using company computers. Most
information is useful - some, however is not. Easy
access to computer pornography is a major problem
that has arisen from recent technology and communication
advances. Business managers and owners are facing
new challenges in guarding and monitoring the content
being viewed by employees browsing the Internet, emails
or other electronic files, because a portion of the
information can be explicit and sometimes illegal
adult material. Questionable content being viewed
on an organization's computers can also reduce employee
productivity, expose your business to legal liabilities
and foster a culture of sexual harassment in your
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Computer
Misuse in the Workplace
Statistics
indicate that most companies have an employee
internet management problem.
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There has not been a failsafe
method to monitor and protect your staff members from
questionable content that can be displayed on computers
from these many sources … until ScreenShield.
Company-wide
Protection
How ScreenShield Works
More Than a
Web Filter
Flexible, Powerful
Protection
Simple Operations
and Centralized Administration
Company-wide
Protection
ScreenShield is a unique software
solution that serves as a deterrent and watchdog, silently
detecting, monitoring, logging, and if you choose, blocking
questionable images from being displayed on your company's
computers. Powered by a sophisticated content-based detection
engine that analyzes screen images for skin tones, ScreenShield
provides preventive protection and constantly oversees
personal computer usage. These comprehensive and flexible
capabilities provide managers, department heads, human
resource departments and business owners with a dual benefit:
• a pornography monitoring
and blocking facility
• a highly visible persistent deterrent
"50%
of people found time to visit X-rated sites from work"
IDC Research
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How ScreenShield Works
ScreenShield's approach to protecting
against computer pornography is unique. The content-based
detection engine analyzes image composition each time
content is displayed on personal computer screens - regardless
of its source. When ScreenShield detects suspect material
for any computer on the network, the application records
the event and a 'thumbnail' snapshot of the computer screen
is saved in a central log file. This creates a complete
audit trail for management to review and monitor.
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When
an employee attempts to view an adult image on a computer
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ScreenShield's
content based Detection Engine scans the image to
be displayed for questionable / adult content... |
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ScreenShield
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ScreenShield has 4 Modes of
Operation that let you determine what happens
on the employee's PC:
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- Passive
Mode
- Stealth
Mode
- Active
Warning Mode
- Active
Mode
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More Than
a Web Filter
Unlike conventional Web filters
that only attempt to eliminate access to known pornographic
websites, ScreenShield protects your business from any
image displayed on a computer, regardless of its source.
Although the prime source of illicit materials, downloading
pictures from the Internet is only one of many
ways pornography can be freely distributed without detection.
In fact, ScreenShield complements any existing Internet
security programs you may already in place.
"Internet filtering
software generally fails to block one out of every
five sites deemed objectionable.''
Consumer Reports Magazine
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Flexible,
Powerful Protection
ScreenShield
allows you to tailor protection levels to suit the needs
of your organization. Accounting departments have different
needs than science, marketing or art departments. In fact,
the degree of sensitivity you wish to provide may even
vary by time of day. These ScreenShield features provide
flexibility and control for managers:
• Filters allow you to
adjust the level of sensitivity to images
• Profiles allow you to
establish usage standards and constraints for various
groups of employees, departments and locations, and
their needs and tolerances to potentially adult images
• Detection Engine Scheduler
allows you to enable / disable the detection engine
for a specified period of time
• ScreenShield's Four (4)
Modes of Operation allow you
to determine the level of exposure to potentially explicit
images, and how you want to be notified of any occurrences.
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Simple
Operations and Centralized Administration
ScreenShield
is a networked application that is easy to install and
operate. The ScreenShield Control Panel is installed on
a single PC and is used to administer all the clients
on a network. The Control
Panel allows you to: create profiles, assign clients
to profiles, view logs, manually lock/unlock clients,
adjust sensitivity filters, select operating mode(s) and
perform uninstalls. ScreenShield's Control Panel is password
protected for added security, and supports full remote
network management facilities for all major networks.
Install ScreenShield
client detection software on all personal computers the
company wishes to protect. After installation, no further
user intervention or configuration is required to the
individual client computers. The ScreenShield client application
performs image detection, captures thumbnails of offending
images and locks computers if configured to do so via
the Control Panel.
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