net Security has become an umbrella term encompassing everything from hacker detection to anti-virus protection. The focus of this article is on how employee misuse of the Internet can affect your bottom line. One of our company's quickest success stories was a customer who kept losing competitive bids for contracts based on price. Fearing an inside leak, the customer installed our Employee Internet Management software and quickly discovered that one of his employees was being compensated for emailing confidential bid details to a major competitor.

Another of our customers, a large hospital, was inundated with viruses -and not the biological sort. Computer viruses were frequently plaguing its systems,rendering them useless at times. Antivirus and antispyware software tools would successfully clean up defiled systems, but only after they wreaked havoc for users and the IT staff.

The hospital installed our solution in order to identify usage patterns and determine and block likely Web sites and users that were the root cause of their issues. The hospital's primary concern was that an employee could inadvertently download a trojan, making an infected computer a gateway to external hackers and providing unauthorized access to patient information.