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Every stroke you make, every word you type...

Work from home has enforced a new management approach to entrusting employees to be productive. Well, maybe for some. For the rest, there’s monitoring software. How far can companies go to monitor their remote workforce?

18 May 2021

Work from home instituted in response to the pandemic has stretched most companies’ resources to accommodate new working conditions. Keystroke logging software, or keyloggers, aren’t new and can be used by cybercriminals to monitor targets’ PCs and extract sensitive information. However, their ability to track every key typed on a device’s keypad as a means of monitoring employee activity has undoubtedly been implemented by some employers as a productivity-monitoring mechanism.

According to Professor Basie von Solms, director of the Centre of Cyber Security at the University of Johannesburg, keystroke surveillance can be staged through software installed on a device to record every keystroke and store it for monitoring purposes, in the name of productivity.

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