What is the best internet filter for businesses?

The best internet filter for businesses depends on your needs, but solutions like CurrentWare's BrowseControl offer advanced web filtering, category-based blocking, and policy enforcement for employee productivity and security

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You can disable USB ports on a Windows computer using Device Manager, Group Policy Editor, or software solutions like CurrentWare's AccessPatrol, which provides centralized control over USB access.

How can I see what someone did on a computer?

You can view computer activity by checking browser history, recent files, event logs, or using monitoring software like CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter for detailed insights into user activity.

Is Working from Home More Productive? Your Manager Might Not Agree

November 30, 2020

Here at CurrentWare we regularly collaborate on articles for third-party publications. Here’s what we were up to this month.

Managers Worry About the Productivity of Employees Working From Home

Studies have shown that remote workers are happier and more productive than their in-office counterparts.

Unfortunately despite the majority (74%) of remote workers in a Global Workplace Analytics survey believing they are very successful working from home, a staggering 38% of managers in a Harvard Business Review study felt that remote workers usually perform worse than those who work in an office.

To help address this gap newly remote companies have leveraged software that monitors remote employees so they can monitor productivity no matter where they work.

Employees feel productive working from home, but managers are having their doubts. We’ve helped cover this topic over on PCMag.

Want to Start Monitoring Your Remote Employees? Click Here

The Tech Top 6 Podcast – Digital Transformation Happiness and Web Surfing at Work

IT Weekly Newsletter - Tech Top 6 Podcast

CurrentWare’s marketing coordinator Dale Strickland joins Mike Matchett of Small World Big Data and Warren Avery from the IT Weekly newsletter to talk about hand-selected IT technical articles from around the world, including Dale’s article How Employees Bypass Workplace Web Filters (& How to Stop Them).

Topic Covered:

Bypassing Web Security – Dale explains how employees bypass web filters and what you can do to stop them
Cybersecurity Certifications – All those security stamps of approval
Security Expenses – Really a lot of overlooked ways to throw money at it
How To Be Happy – Really, the secret isn’t a secret
Digital Transformation Roles – An A-team for the DT Win
AI Skills Gap – AI gets smarter, but we are falling behind

You can listen to the podcast here