.Spector 360^® 2010 Product Upgrade Release Notice

SpectorSoft is pleased to announce the release of Spector 360 | 2010. Upgrading to this release is INCLUDED as benefit of the Premium Maintenance program. As a Spector 360 customer, SpectorSoft encourages you to take advantage of our ongoing product updates and upgrades that include many new features and improvements.

What's New in this Release?

• Event Alerts based on customisable rules governing the detection of employee/user activity
• New Control Center for automatic management of client recorders and easier administration of back-end components
• Charts and Reports for groups ... review events at a higher level by departments or types
• Web events classified by web site categories ... same categories used in Internet filtering
• Web filtering will support blocking of portions of sites, instead of only entire domains
• Selective recording of web sites to provide employees with privacy when banking online or looking at healthcare claims
• Native recorder support for 64-bit Windows operating systems and support for Windows 7
• Recording of Lotus Notes and Domino email messaging system and applications published from Citrix and Windows Terminal Servers
• Access to Tools and Events in the Dashboard controlled by account-level security
• Automatic downloading of periodic updates to web filtering database
• Massively scalable communication to support tens of thousands of clients pushing data

• CLICK HERE to view ALL the new features in Spector 360 | 2010

We encourage you to visit our download site and upgrade to Spector 360 | 2010, today! Keeping your software current will ensure that your copy of Spector 360 is providing maximum value to both you and your organisation.

How to Upgrade?

Select Help > About from the Dashboard or Control Center menu to verify the version of Spector 360 you have currently installed.

For detailed information on the upgrade process from Version 6.2 , please CLICK HERE.

For detailed information on the upgrade process from Version 6.1 , please CLICK HERE.

If you are still running Version 6.0, you will first need to upgrade to Version 6.1 before proceeding with the upgrade to Spector 360 | 2010. Please contact our Customer Support Team to obtain download instructions for upgrading from Version 6.0.

 If you are not currently under our Premium Maintenance program we encourage you to contact SpectorAustralia.net Sales to purchase it today so you can start taking advantage of the following benefits:

• Product Version Upgrades at no additional charge
• Product Updates at no additional charge
• Unlimited Access to the Spector 360 Knowledge Base

What's New in Spector 360

Spector 360 2010 adds the following features.

New administrative  capabilities:

• Centralized Event  Alerts
  From the Control Center or Dashboard, you now can define rules to detect  data from any recorded user activity that matches conditions you specify.  As soon as Event Alert conditions are met, an "alert" is recorded.  Email notification can also be sent to the appropriate supervisor for  immediate response.

For example...

• Your company may be interested in:
• Who sends large email  attachments?
• To which domain or network  location are large files uploaded?
• Who off-loads data (from  confidential folders) to a removable drive?
• Which of these activities  occur during, or outside of, business hours?

• Updated Control  Center Application
  The all new Control Center offers automatic deployment and easy updating  of the Spector 360 Recorder across your network. By adding Spector 360  Database management to the same "toolbox" as Server and Client  Recorder management, the new Control Center facilitates one-stop, point-and-click  administration of your Spector 360 installation.

Access Control  by "Tool"
Spector 360 users now can be limited by "tool" (such as Reports,  Quick View, Web Filtering, or Database Management) in addition to event  type and user. For example, a network administrator can be restricted  from viewing sensitive user activity in the Dashboard, while a department  supervisor can be restricted from tampering with centralised management  functions.

Profile-based Recorder  Settings
Assign recording "profiles" to sets of computers, and then  update "Record" settings by simply changing the profile.

Powerful Control  Center Server
Behind the Control Center application, a single, back-end service (the  CCS) has capability to automatically add new computers entering the network  and install and update the Recorder software and configuration.

See the Spector  360 Administrator's Guide for additional information.

New Dashboard views of data:

• Event Alert Reporting
  Alert charts and reports show results from your new, customised Event  Alert profiles. Navigate from summary charts to event details; discover  what may have contributed to an alert event.

Group-aware Reporting
Charts, reports, and grids now can draw data from Dashboard "groups"  of users, computers, domains, or programs - in addition to individuals  - allowing you to "zoom out" to a more generalised perspective.  Which departments or locations have problems? Instead of viewing top programs  used, view top groups of programs: Are they work-related or recreational?  Are expensive tools not being used enough?

Web Event Reporting  by Category
Web Filtering domain categories now are available for Dashboard views  of Internet usage. Rather than viewing data from individual domains recorded,  choose a category (such as "Shopping" or "Adult Sites")  that includes dozens or hundreds of domains. There's no setup work to  it - Spector 360 provides extensive, predefined domain categories for  you.

New  recording support:

The Spector 360 Recorder now supports:

• Native 64-bit systems
  Each Recorder installation automatically detects 64-bit and 32-bit  systems, and installs and configures itself accordingly.
• Lotus Notes recording
  The Recorder now includes support for capturing Lotus Notes email messaging.
• Support for Terminal Services and  Citrix Published Applications
  Organisations using Windows Terminal Services (Microsoft Remote Desktop)  or Citrix can install the Spector 360 Recorder on the central server.  In addition to recording activity in Desktop published mode, the Recorder  will now capture activity from individual published applications at all  workstations
• Post form data
  The post form method of communication (commonly used for blogging)  between a browser and web server, plus the data posted, is now fully captured  and viewable in the Dashboard's Web Sites Visited events.
• Keystroke review  of posted data
  Actual keystrokes are captured for side-by-side display with post form  web events, revealing the complete blog session context - even when data  is encrypted on upload.

Time and Date Stamps on Screen Snapshots
When you export Screen Snapshots to graphic files, an optional date  and time stamp clearly identifies when the snapshot was taken. Simply  send the graphic file to any external agency or attorney who requires  time-stamped, visual review.  

Automatic  updates:  

• Web Filtering Database
  Periodic updates to Web Filtering domain categories can be automatically  downloaded to your Spector 360 WFS Database. Each download adds categories  and/or URLs to enhance Web Filtering coverage of the latest problem sites.
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• Recorder Software  Updates
  Spector 360 now allows (optional) automatic installation and updates  of Recorder software. It's possible to instruct Spector 360 to automatically  install the latest Recorder on every new computer that joins the network.

See the Spector  360 Administrator's Guide for additional information.

Massively Scalable Communication:

New communication technology used by Spector 360 components  allows for massive scalability of your Spector 360 installation, limited  only by server machine resources. A single installation can support thousands  of client computer licenses.