NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: NEAL WEINBERG ON PRODUCT REVIEWS 08/26/04 Today's focus: Stellar Internet Monitoring
Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED], In this issue: * The Reviewmeister takes a look at Stellar Internet Monitoring ��from Stellar Technologies * Links related to Product Reviews * Featured reader resource _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle An Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper: From Grid to Great? Grid computing is breaking out. Familiar mostly to academics, government groups, and scientific researchers, this technology that links together the power of diverse computers to create powerful, fast and flexible systems is beginning to catch on in the corporate world. Included in this white paper, results and interviews from a global survey among Sr Executives, click to download now http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=73340 _______________________________________________________________ CONTEMPLATING A CAREER MOVE? For many of us, it is time to contemplate a change. You're great at managing networks, but what about your career? Get information and advice for managing and developing your career and guiding your staff's career choices at NW Fusion's Career Research Center. Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=73216 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: Stellar Internet Monitoring By Neal Weinberg Stellar Technologies offers its Stellar Internet Monitoring product as a way for companies to monitor employee Internet usage and policy violations. Stellar IM monitors instant messaging, but it is only a part of the entire system. The system also monitors Web surfing and other HTTP activity. Although Stellar IM is not designed to manage IM usage or enforce policies, it does log IM sessions conducted on Yahoo, AOL Instant Messenger and MSN, and lets administrators review and search the archives. If an employee breaches a policy, such as sending or receiving a file via IM session, Stellar IM will send an e-mail alert to an administrator. The user portal is attractive and easy to use. The system lets administrators set up an organization account, map users (employees) manually or automatically via IP address. A directory of people is generated based on their logon names used when signing onto their corporate network. The Stellar IM system we tested is optimized for environments where a software application can sit on a server (shared or dedicated) and sniff traffic as it enters and leaves the network. With the Web-based service and Enterprise edition, the sniffing agents can be distributed at several points in a corporate network to capture information about traffic on different network segments. All agents automatically communicate in real time with the Stellar IM management application via a Secure Sockets Layer tunnel. The strength of the system is that the management application can be hosted by Stellar, and is accessible to network account owners via the Internet with a standard Web interface. One feature that might interest the business side of your company is the ability to generate a report that shows the amount of corporate resources spent on a particular task (or Web site visited) based on an average hourly wage entered in the calculator. For the full report, go to <http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0628imrev2.html> RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS If you can't beat IM, join IM Network World, 06/28/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/research/2004/0628imfeat.html IM management tools http://www.nwfusion.com/reviews/2004/0628imrev.html _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Neal Weinberg Neal Weinberg is features editor at Network World, in charge of product reviews, Buyer's Guides, technology primers, how-tos, issue-oriented feature stories and the Technology Insider series. You can reach him at <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. _______________________________________________________________ This newsletter is sponsored by Oracle An Economist Intelligence Unit White Paper: From Grid to Great? Grid computing is breaking out. 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