GFI WebMonitor: Make a positive impact

Effective control of what users are doing across your Internet connection can have a huge positive impact on productivity and network security.

It is very easy and plausible for a user to spend an hour a day on leisure browsing. Consider the following scenario:

• Facebook including chat – five minutes, three times a day = 15 minutes
• Webmail including chat – 5 minutes; twice a day = 10 minutes
• News, local and International = 10 minutes
• Sports or entertainment = 10 minutes
• YouTube – two videos of 4 minutes = 8 minutes
• Twitter = 5 minutes.

Take your hourly pay as an average, multiply that by the number of employees in your company and multiply it by five (one hour per day per week). That is the cost saving this week if employees have just surfed for one hour a day! (See also the ROI section below!)

That excludes any time spent cleaning up infected PCs and the mess malware leaves behind them. It also excludes the potential cost of lawsuits which web browsing of objectionable or illicit material can expose you to, or any data leaks through socially engineered phishing attacks.

As staff get used to the new software, their surfing activities will revert to old ways unless you keep your web monitoring in place. With continued web monitoring, you can spend some time refining the policies you have in place until you find the right balance for your organization. And you can rest assured that infected downloads do not slip through.

Web monitoring ROI: It’s easy to justify buying GFI WebMonitor

Take a look at our ROI Guide and use it to present a case to your management.

Misuse of Internet access continues to eat away at productivity at the work place. GFI WebMonitor can reclaim more than $185,000 worth of lost time a year for a 50-person company in which $15-an-hour employees spend just one hour a day in personal web surfing.

Companies report that Internet usage drops by up to 25% when software to monitor employee browsing habits is in place. Even a small company can lose tens of thousands of dollars in work time over the course of a year from cyberslacking.

The presence of pornography in the workplace is grounds for potentially expensive sexual harassment lawsuits. These can cost an average of $250,000 – excluding the cost of any negative PR which you might get.