Monitoring of network activity of the employees automated workplaces

The article addresses the issue of monitoring of the network activity of employee’s computers in order to ensure information security of the organization from external threats caused by the use of hardware and software of foreign origin, including services collecting all kinds of information about Internet users. The major problems arising in the process of analysis of the security of the organization in the field of information security are discussed. A brief overview of existing network traffic monitoring tool solutions is given. The experiment with the use of the foreign hardware and software in the organization was carried on. The experiment is aimed at identifying negative factors affecting the information security. The results of the experiment are presented. Finally the conclusions about the shortcomings of methods and means of information protection are made, as well as optimal ways to use the tools for the network traffic filtering are addressed