How
does The Irish company Monitor work?
The Irish company Monitor runs continually on a
company?s network of PCs ? whether they are on the
network or working remotely. An agent is installed on
each PC on the network and reports into central Server
application. A separate GUI application is used to
view the secure information stored on the Server
application. If a suspect image is viewed on client PC
screen, which transgresses a set level of sensitivity,
a thumbnail copy is made and sent to the Server
machine. A Gallery of suspect images is available for
review by a trusted officer of the company. These
images are then categorised by the reviewer and added
to a user case. Several reports are generated
automatically, providing both a summary view of images
found on the company?s network and also a detailed
view of images per user.
What
file types are supported?
The Irish company Monitor does not rely upon image
formats or file types in order to cause a trigger to
scan an image. This is due to the fact that The Irish
company Monitor is effectively ?format agnostic?
meaning that images are intercepted at the screen
level and assessed based on the image that will be
viewed by the User, therefore it can be said that The
Irish company Monitor protection against inappropriate
images in ALL file types.
How accurate is
the Image Analysis Engine?
The Irish company Monitor?s Image Analysis Engine has
been proven to provide results which are 95-98%
accurate. The software has been tested on millions of
images. The software can be customised to reflect an
organisations environment which may include a
configuration to ignore commonly occurring image
particular to that organisation.
What
does The Irish company Monitor do?
The Irish company Monitor is designed to monitor
images being viewed on a PC or Laptop and provides
multisource image detection and analysis. The Irish
company Monitor is deployed as an agent from a central
administration console to the Desktop environment
within an organisation and can monitor and report on
the images being viewed, and depending upon the
product configuration, will prevent inappropriate and
illicit images being viewed.
Will The Irish company Monitor affect the
performance of PC s?
Typically, running The Irish company Monitor client is
not a very CPU intensive operation. The Irish company
Client has little impact on the desktop. The
monitoring process typically uses between 1 and 2% of
the CPU resources. However, the software will scan
every image being accessed for inappropriate material
based upon the configuration determined by the
Customer. As a result of the software scanning every
image file it encounters, it is possible that some
Users will experience some minor performance reduction
when surfing the web or viewing a large number of
images.
Is the data that The Irish company Monitor gathers
secure?
Images copied from the target PC to the scanning
machine are encrypted and can only be viewed using the
The Irish company Monitor Administrator application.
Reports generated by The Irish company Monitor
Administrator can be created in anonymous format. The
file owner can be aliased which means the reports can
be circulated to a wider audience without prejudicing
employees? privacy, human rights and innocence.
How does the software detect the images?
The monitoring process is constantly performing a
'pre-audit' which splits the screen into quadrants and
searches for a number of skin pixels. If a certain
threshold is reached which means the probability of
skin tones is quite high then the image is fully
analysed. Many analysis techniques are used to
determine the nature of the image including skin
tones, presence of people, foreground, background
analysis and luminosity.
Can the The Irish company Monitor Client be
tampered with?
The software has been specifically designed with
security in mind. The client software cannot be
uninstalled. The install directory is protected and
the captured thumbnails are encrypted. The processes
are protected and if tampered with will restart
automatically. If prolonged tampering occurs on the
client machine this behaviour is alerted to the The
Irish company Server console and appropriate action
may be taken.
Does The Irish company Monitor provide a reporting
facility?
The Irish company Monitor provides reports a summary
report of the company?s network as well as a detailed
report on images found per user
Can
The Irish company Monitor detect illicit images in
cartoons?
The Irish company Monitor is designed to detect all
images but is optimised to detect pornographic images.
As a result The Irish company Monitor will detect
life-like cartoon images as being of an illicit
nature, however the less life-like a cartoon is, the
less likely it is The Irish company Monitor will
detect it as being of an illicit nature. It is worth
considering that The Irish company Monitor can be
configured to detect all images within an environment
and thus will detect cartoons, which could then be
manually categorised. There will also be the
opportunity to create a blacklist of known illicit
images, which will then be detected and this could
include inappropriate cartoons.