. veriato inc. type private company 1 industry software founded 1998 headquarters palm beach gardens fl usa key people jason judge ceo products user behavior and employee monitoring software website http www.veriato.com veriato formerly known as spectorsoft 2 is a software manufacturer that develops and sells user behavior and employee monitoring software . contents 1 history 2 products 3 awards distinctions 4 users 4.1 employers 4.2 educators 4.3 parents 4.4 illegal uses 4.4.1 spouses 4.4.2 thieves 5 legal 6 see also 7 references history edit the company was founded in 1998 and was an early entrant in the internet monitoring market . in 2008 private equity firms harbourvest partners and westview capital partners invested in the company taking a majority ownership position . 3 spectorsoft originally serviced both consumer and business customers but no longer sells software for consumer or home use . 4 today the company is a provider of employee monitoring user behavior analytics and log management solutions to enterprise mid market and small business . in 2012 spectorsoft acquired the assets of corner bowl software . 5 products edit veriato recon 6 a user behavior analytics solution . the software detects and alerts on anomalies related to insider threat behaviors . veriato recon also enables best practices like the review of online activity of employees during the high risk exit period . veriato 360 7 a user activity monitoring solution enabling companies to retain review report and alert on employee activity . used for monitoring higher risk employees and for incident response veriato 360 provides exceptional visibility and contextual information . veriato investigator 8 an employee investigation solution perfect for temporary focused investigations . veriato investigator installs quickly records detailed information on employee activity and enables fast accurate and efficient exploration and playback of the recorded data . log manager 9 veriato log manager provides event and security log management . centrally monitor windows unix linux switches routers hubs and more ; consolidating all of your event and security logs in one place and offering powerful reporting options . server manager 10 veriato server manager adds application resource and disk monitoring to the event and log management features found in spectorsoft log manager . no other single solution equals this comprehensive offering for your server monitoring needs . awards distinctions edit spector pro was given the pc magazine editors choice award in a 2002 review of six computer activity monitoring tools . 11 in 2004 version 5.0 of spector pro was again given the editors choice award from a field of four programs . 12 in 2008 spector 360 sr3 won the pc magazine editors choice award . 13 in 2004 spectorsoft was listed for the first time as one of inc. magazine s top 500 fastest growing private companies in america at position 224 . 14 the company achieved a position on the list once again in 2005 at number 497 . 15 in 2009 spectorsoft made the list of inc. 5000 companies at number 3340 . 16 in 2010 and 2011 spectorsoft again made the inc. magazine 500 5000 list . spectorsoft products have been mentioned in many well known media outlets including zdnet pc computing time cnn nbc nightly news the new york times and the wall street journal . 17 in 2014 spectorsoft won the sc magazine europe best fraude prevention award 18 and the best of interop 2014 security award 19 for their spector 360 recon product users edit the target audiences for spectorsoft products are parents who want to monitor the activity of their children on the home pc and employers who want to record the activities of their employees on company owned workstations . employers edit employers may choose to monitor their employees using spectorsoft software . there are however still privacy concerns over things like personal email . 20 21 spectorsoft addresses privacy issues regularly and has a paper authorized by a leading privacy attorney available on its website . 22 educators edit educators school administrators and school districts are required to protect students from online predators cipa & ferpa . most schools use blocking and filtering solutions which may block sites needed for research or not block new sites that have not yet been included in the filtering solution . spector 360 works with filters to provide an additional layer of protection and also helps keep students on task by providing teachers and technology coordinators with reports and charts that show what web sites students visit and how long they spent on each . keyword alerts let lab instructors or it administrators see who may be violating a school s acceptable use policy aup . 23 parents edit parents have used spectorsoft s software to monitor their children s internet use . 24 illegal uses edit some of spectorsoft s tools especially eblaster can be used for criminal activities and there have been several convictions for such misuse . spectorsoft software contains an eula 25 specifying that installation must only be on machines owned by the licensee and also indicating that spectorsoft will only cooperate with law enforcement when compelled to do so . spouses edit spectorsoft has marketed its spy software to people wanting to catch their spouses cheating . 26 however in the face of criminal charges and negative publicity spectorsoft no longer markets its products to spouses . 27 there is however nothing to stop a spouse from using the products illegally . for example a man from michigan who installed eblaster on a partner s personal computer was charged with four felony counts facing up to five years in prison and 19 000 in fines 28 and in 2013 a texas woman filed a criminal complaint against her estranged husband for using eblaster to spy on her facebook and e mail communications . 29 thieves edit since spectorsoft software is specifically designed to be difficult to detect and remove the tools especially eblaster can be used by thieves who wish to steal credit card information banking information and passwords . installation of the software can occur without the user s knowledge or permission . 30 spectorsoft openly advertise that their tools will record all of a user s passwords . 31 there have been recorded cases of this happening . 32 legal edit patent infringement case helios software llc et al. v. spectorsoft corporation has concluded . in september 2014 the court granted summary judgment of non infringement as to the 571 and 237 patents see opinion at wordpress.com 33 on june 19 2015 after a five day trial a jury returned a verdict of no direct or indirect infringement by spectorsoft of the 304 patent and also found several of the asserted claims of that patent invalid as both anticipated and rendered obvious by prior art see docket entry no. 615 for civ . no. 12 081 lps . 34 see also edit computer monitoring employee monitoring software references edit veriato inc. private company information businessweek . spectorsoft changes name to veriato to reflect growing demand for corporate truth business wire . businesswire.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . westview capital partners . www.wvcapital.com . retrieved 2015 07 31 . monitoring software computer and internet monitoring spectorsoft . spectorsoft.com . retrieved 2015 07 31 . release of spectorsoft server manager centralizes and automates server monitoring provides increased systems uptime and simplified compliance reporting . www.spectorsoft.com . retrieved 2015 07 31 . veriato recon user behavior analytics insider threats formerly spector 360 recon . veriato.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . veriato 360 employee monitoring user activity monitoring software formerly spector 360 . veriato.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . veriato investigator employee investigation software . veriato.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . veriato log manager event log management security log management formerly spectorsoft log manager . veriato.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . server manager server management software veriato formerly spectorsoft server manager . veriato.com . retrieved 2016 04 11 . glass brett january 7 2002 . watching you watching me spector pro reviewed by pc magazine . pc magazine . retrieved january 15 2007 . spector pro editors choice ... a descendant of the netbus trojan horse delaney laura march 8 2004 . monitoring software reviewed by pc magazine . pc magazine . retrieved january 15 2007 . sarrel matthew june 17 2008 . monitoring software reviewed by pc magazine . pc magazine . retrieved june 15 2008 . inc 500 2004 ranked 224 . inc magazine . 2004 . retrieved january 15 2007 . inc 500 2005 ranked 497 . inc magazine . 2005 . retrieved january 15 2007 . inc 5000 2009 ranked 3314 . inc magazine . 2009 . retrieved september 9 2009 . spectorsoft press mentions . spectorsoft . retrieved may 23 2007 . 2014 sc awards europe winners . retrieved 2015 09 16 . spectorsoft selected as winner of best of interop 2014 award in the security category . reuters . 2014 04 08 . retrieved 2015 09 16 . bill wallace jamie fenton november 15 2000 . analysis your pc could be watching you . cnn . retrieved january 15 2007 . thomas c greene . spyware trojan sends hotmail to your boss . the register . retrieved april 11 2007 . ten tips for preparing an effective acceptable use policy pdf . david kopf november 15 2007 . analysis illinois district keeps an eye on net abuse . the journal . retrieved november 15 2007 . potter ned july 24 2006 . watching your kids online . abc news . retrieved january 15 2007 . spectorsoft inc. spectorsoft software license agreement . retrieved september 9 2009 . cohen adam july 2 2001 . internet insecurity page 6 . time magazine . retrieved january 15 2007 . spouse vs. spouse cyberspying dangerous possibly illegal network world . network world . 2007 . retrieved october 23 2007 . fowler says spectorsoft which makes consumer and business versions of its surveillance software three years ago stopped marketing its products as spouse spying tools . matt bean september 7 2001 . private electronic surveillance raising legal rights questions . court tv . archived from the original on december 15 2003 . retrieved april 10 2007 . dillon collier may 16 2013 . wilson co. woman says husband used computer software to spy on her . kens 5 . retrieved june 12 2013 . blaster remote installation guide . spectorsoft . retrieved may 23 2007 . eblaster installs itself silently without any indication to the computer user that the installation has taken place capture their email passwords . netbus.org owned by spectorsoft . retrieved april 12 2007 . passwords from any email account will be recorded ... and all other passwords john leyden july 23 2003 . online banking in sa was a time bomb waiting to go off . the register . archived from the original on june 23 2004 . retrieved april 10 2007 . https ipspotlight.files.wordpress.com 2014 11 helios 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