Unlock a new level of insight into risky employee activity with Syteca’s advanced keystroke monitoring solution!
Record and analyze keystrokes within their full context, all while complying with data privacy requirements. From copying sensitive information without legitimate purposes to entering malicious code, Syteca’s keylogging software empowers you to spot and respond to insider threats quickly and thoroughly.
How Syteca’s keystroke monitoring works
Keystroke monitoring can be enabled for Windows PCs and servers.
Once the keylogger for Windows is activated, Syteca starts recording keystrokes along with on-screen activity in a screen-capture format, delivering context-rich insights on user activity.
Syteca logs the following types of keystrokes:
Character keys
Modifiers
Navigation and typing mode keys
System commands
Function keys
Syteca’s Windows keylogger also tracks all clipboard actions, including copy, cut, and paste operations.
Key capabilities of Syteca keylogging software
Gain visibility into keystroke activity, streamline incident response, and comply with cybersecurity requirements.
Record all keystrokes and clipboard content across both local and remote Windows sessions.
Pseudonymize employees’ personal data to comply with the GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy regulations.
Limit keystroke monitoring to essential apps, omitting private ones or those that pose little-to-no security risks. Initiate session monitoring only when predefined keywords or clipboard operations are performed.
Set up rules to trigger alerts when specific keywords are entered.
Align keystrokes with video fragments and other useful insights to get the full context of user actions within a session.
Keystroke monitoring is part of Syteca’s advanced UAM
With Syteca, you get much more than software that records keystrokes. The keylogging feature complements a myriad of functionalities offered by Syteca UAM, giving you a comprehensive view of user activity within your network.
Thoroughly monitor user interactions across applications and systems. Identify risky behaviors, such as copying sensitive data or executing malicious commands.
Receive alerts when users enter suspicious keywords and respond quickly to security threats or policy violations. Display a warning message, block a user, or kill the process.
Ensure privacy-compliant monitoring by pseudonymizing users’ personally identifiable information (PII). All keystroke data remains searchable, but PII is hidden by default.
Achieve compliance with HIPAA, NIST 800-53, PCI DSS, and other cybersecurity standards by maintaining comprehensive audit trails of user activities, including typed keystrokes.
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FAQ
The legality of employing keystroke recording software depends on your local data privacy laws and regulations. Organizations in the United States must consider the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and state privacy laws, while organizations in the European Union and European Economic Area are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The generally recommended rule of thumb is to obtain consent from your employees, monitor only work-related activities, and properly protect all monitored data.
Before implementing any user activity monitoring software, always make sure that it complies with all relevant laws and regulations in your region.
Note: Syteca offers privacy-focused keylogging to prevent legal issues. Syteca’s keylogger isn’t hidden, ensuring the legality and transparency of the keystroke monitoring process.
Syteca’s keystroke monitoring is configured to comply with regional privacy regulations. By default, it operates in search-only mode, allowing you to find sessions where specific keywords or commands were typed. While the text itself cannot be displayed directly, you can view the context through session recordings.
To enable the display of keystrokes in the player, you should first make sure it’s completely legal in your region and then contact our tech support team for activation instructions.
Syteca takes user privacy seriously and controls access to collected data. By default, access to all collected keystrokes and other gathered user activity data is limited to authorized personnel only.
Organizations should establish clear policies and procedures for accessing and utilizing recorded user activity data. Additionally, organizations should ensure that all personnel who have access to keystroke recordings are fully trained and aware of their responsibilities.
There are several reasons why an organization might monitor employees’ keyboard use:
Security. Keylogging software can help organizations identify and prevent insider threats. By tracking keystroke activity, organizations can quickly detect suspicious behavior and take proactive steps to prevent or mitigate data breaches.
Compliance. In some industries, organizations need to comply with specific data security and privacy requirements. A keylogger solution can help organizations ensure that employees are following established policies and procedures.
Incident investigation. If a security incident occurs, keystroke monitoring records can provide valuable evidence for auditors and investigators.
Any organization that prioritizes data security and compliance should consider implementing keyboard tracking software. Moreover, a keylogger for PC helps meet cybersecurity standards for businesses that operate in regulated industries, such as finance, healthcare, and government.
Software that records keystrokes provides a detailed audit trail for review. Compliance officers can access specific sessions or records to verify that employees follow the necessary procedures, making it easier to meet industry standards, regulations, and laws.
Syteca’s keystroke tracking software can help you detect and prevent insider threats such as negligent user actions or malicious activities with the organization’s systems or data.
Security officers can use Syteca’s preset or custom user activity monitoring alerts to get real-time notifications and take immediate actions to mitigate risks.
In addition, Syteca automatically detects anomalous user activity, such as employees logging into your system outside of work hours.
Yes. To safeguard personal data, Syteca also offers:
A monitored data pseudonymization mode, which pseudonymizes all personally identifiable user data (in case of a security incident, this data can be viewed by security officers or data protection officers).
Privacy-compliant keylogging. Keystrokes are hidden by default but remain searchable.
Password hiding. Passwords are masked by asterisks and are not sent to the Syteca server.