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Comprehensive User Session Recording Software

Record insider activity. Log high-risk events. Investigate incidents.

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Why Syteca?

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Recording user sessions is a must in order to ensure complete visibility and eliminate cybersecurity threats within your network. Maintaining detailed records of user activity is also a compliance requirement under NIST SP 800-53, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and other security standards, laws, and regulations.

With Syteca’s comprehensive session recording capabilities, you gain a 360-degree view of all user activity while minimizing security risks and supporting regulatory compliance.

Enhance visibility and control with thorough session recording

Syteca’s comprehensive session recording solution enables you to streamline critical cybersecurity activity across your organization, providing the following benefits:

Gain visibility into employee actions and productivity

Record, review, and stop risky behavior in real time

Streamline internal and external audits with searchable records

Capture evidence to investigate and analyze security incidents

Ensure compliance with IT security regulations

Support cybersecurity training with real session footage of security events

Record and review user sessions in a couple of clicks

With Syteca, recording user sessions takes seconds — just install our lightweight software agents on the target endpoints to gain visibility into risky activity. Designed for multi-platform environments, our comprehensive session recording tool is compatible with more platforms than any other solution on the market.

Unmatched platform coverage

Get context-rich recordings of all activity on any user’s screen, alongside useful metadata:

Keystrokes and clipboard data

Executed commands (for Linux)

Launched applications

Names of active windows

Visited URLs

Connected USB devices, and more

Comprehensive UAM starts with session recording

Session recording is a core feature of Syteca UAM, a solution that gives you full visibility into every user action. With the combination of session recording, incident response, and user activity reporting, Syteca UAM helps you strengthen your cybersecurity from within.

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Record sessions without interruption

Tech-savvy insiders with malicious intent may attempt to disable session recording to cover their tracks. That’s why Syteca offers a protected mode. Running at the driver level, enabling protected mode ensures the recording process can’t be shut down or bypassed.

Additionally, if an endpoint goes offline, recording continues uninterrupted, with all data stored locally and synced with the server once the connection is restored.

Cannot be disabled by the user

Monitors user activity offline

Preserve data privacy

Unlike any other session recording software, Syteca offers real-time sensitive data masking during user session recording. The platform automatically detects and obscures predefined data types, such as:

  • credentials
  • credit card numbers
  • SSNs

Syteca also lets you pseudonymize users’ PII using aliases, making it impossible to link recorded sessions to a specific user. Upon approval, data can be de-pseudonymized for investigation purposes.

With these features, you can be confident that the activity recording process remains compliant with data privacy requirements of the GDPR, PCI DSS, and HIPAA.

Store recorded data with convenience

Allocating enough disk space for recording databases can be a challenge, especially since most major cybersecurity regulations require you to store session records for at least a year.

Syteca employs a data compression algorithm to maintain a lightweight recording database. Whether you use interval capture or full-motion capture, here’s how Syteca keeps storage lean:

Interval screen capture

Storing user actions as deltas — changes between the master image and a new screen capture — drastically reduces storage usage.

Full-motion screen capture

Storing smooth video segments in compact chunks reduces the overall file count and storage load while enabling more fluid playback and faster archival processes.

You can also configure Syteca to record only specific users, applications, and events instead of recording full user sessions for everyone in your organization.

Comprehensive UAM starts with session recording

Session recording is a core feature of Syteca UAM, a solution that gives you full visibility into every user action. With the combination of session recording, incident response, and user activity reporting, Syteca UAM helps you strengthen your cybersecurity from within.

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Expand security beyond session recording

Syteca is much more than user session recording software. It’s a cybersecurity platform that combines powerful user activity monitoring (UAM) and privileged access management (PAM) capabilities to strengthen your defenses from the inside out.

Discover hidden accounts

Run automatic scans to detect all unmanaged privileged accounts within your network. Bring them under control with just a couple of clicks.

Analyze and investigate

Review session recordings backed with contextual metadata. Investigate security incidents using searchable logs, audit trails, and comprehensive reports.

Prevent insider threats

Set custom alerts or choose predefined ones to detect potential insider threats. Respond to suspicious activity manually or enable automated responses.

Monitor in real time

Get a clear view of employees’ and contractors’ activities within your network. See how they handle your sensitive data, critical systems, and servers.

Control user access

Manage users’ access permissions, approve access requests manually, and grant temporary access to critical endpoints. Record every privileged session.

Secure credentials

Store and manage secrets in a centralized, encrypted vault. Automate password rotation and ensure safe credential sharing among teams.

Get a clear view of employees’ and contractors’ activities within your network. See how they handle your sensitive data, critical systems, and servers.

Set custom alerts or choose predefined ones to detect potential insider threats. Respond to suspicious activity manually or enable automated responses.

Review session recordings backed with contextual metadata. Investigate security incidents using searchable logs, audit trails, and comprehensive reports.

Run automatic scans to detect all unmanaged privileged accounts within your network. Bring them under control with just a couple of clicks.

Store and manage secrets in a centralized, encrypted vault. Automate password rotation and ensure safe credential sharing among teams.

Manage users’ access permissions, approve access requests manually, and grant temporary access to critical endpoints. Record every privileged session.

Syteca combines powerful PAM and UAM in one centralized solution — scalable, cost-effective, and built to secure your inside perimeter.

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FAQ

  • An enhanced cybersecurity posture. Session recording tools can secure your network against insider threats and reduce the risk of data breaches, PII compromise, and trade secret theft. User activity recording tools enable you to watch real-time and recorded user sessions to detect potential threats.
  • Legal compliance. Session recording software can help you maintain legal compliance and defend your organization against litigation. For example, deploying PCI DSS or HIPAA-compliant screen recording software ensures that your employees follow the established policies and procedures. To supplement this process, you can export recorded user sessions or their fragments for forensic investigation.
  • Better employee productivity. User activity recording tools let you monitor your employees’ computer sessions, ensuring that your staff resources are being utilized as efficiently as possible. Moreover, employees are typically more attentive and focused when they are aware that their actions are being monitored.

Certain employees might perceive session recording software as an indication of distrust from their employer. You can mitigate this concern by conveying the importance of monitoring policies to your staff.

The legality of employing user session recording software mostly depends on local privacy laws and regulations, so it’s crucial to reference all applicable laws and regulations in your region before implementing user recording tools. In many countries, organizations are generally allowed to monitor their employees’ activities under certain conditions.

For example, organizations in the US must comply with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and state laws related to digital privacy, whereas businesses in the EU and European Economic Area are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Syteca offers GDPR-compliant user session monitoring to prevent legal issues. Thanks to monitored data pseudonymization, Syteca protects your employees’ personally identifiable information (PII).

The recording tool starts tracking user activity each time a user initiates a login. Even if a user works with multiple monitors, the platform records logs and screen captures from all of them.

In the event that the Internet connection is lost, Syteca continues to record user activity and stores the monitored data locally until the connection is restored. Once reconnection is established, the software automatically sends all recorded data to the server.

Recorded data is saved in an easy-to-review and easy-to-search format. User activity records include launched applications, active window titles, URLs, text data (keystrokes, clipboard operations, and file uploads), USB-connected devices, and alerts triggered by various user activities.

You can narrow the scope of monitoring in Syteca by configuring various filters.

By default, access to all monitored user activity data is limited to authorized personnel only. That might include:

  • Any IT security officers who are responsible for monitoring and analyzing employee activity
  • Supervisors who need to make sure employees are following established policies
  • Auditors who conduct IT compliance reviews
  • Legal professionals who may need to review user sessions for an investigation.

Be sure to define clear policies for accessing recorded user session data and ensure that all personnel handling recordings are aware of their responsibilities and receive adequate training.

Syteca’s user session recording software works without disrupting users or other programs, due to lightweight software agents and a highly optimized data storage format. This ensures all workflows within your ecosystem can continue without interruption.

Syteca offers smooth integration with SIEM and ticketing systems to help you enhance your overall security posture with a centralized view of user activity and security events. In addition, Syteca can be integrated with Microsoft Power BI to gather data on employees’ idle time, which applications they use, and the URLs they access.

Session recording software can help you detect and prevent insider threats, thus protecting your organization’s reputation, preventing financial losses, and avoiding regulatory compliance issues.

Syteca supports the most extensive set of platforms in the industry, including Windows, Linux/Unix, macOS, X Windows System, Wayland, Citrix, VMware Horizon, Microsoft Hyper-V, Azure Virtual Desktop, Amazon WorkSpaces, and more.

With Syteca, all session data is encrypted both in transit and at rest to prevent unauthorized use. Access to recordings is strictly controlled — only authorized users can view and export session recordings. To protect user privacy, Syteca also applies data pseudonymization and real-time data masking to avoid exposing sensitive data.