Faronics insight security monitoring – Faronics Insight User Manual

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Installing Faronics Insight

Faronics Insight Security Monitoring

With a tool as powerful as Faronics Insight, there's always a possibility for misuse. A student may
be tempted to find an unauthorized copy and load the Teacher software to disrupt a class.

There are three ways to deal with possible misuse.

1. Set school policies around appropriate behavior, monitor and enforce the policy.

2. Install Faronics Insight in Active Directory Secure Mode which requires teachers to belong to

a domain group called “Insight Teachers” in order to manage student computers.
(Recommended method)

3. Install Faronics Insight in Password Secure Mode, which requires a password on both the

Teacher and Student machines before access is allowed.

Security Monitor

Security Monitor is also available in the Utilities folder from the Faronics Insight download
folder. This application runs on any PC and will capture a log of Faronics Insight activity,
including the installation or uninstall of the Faronics Insight program.

With this utility, many schools have quickly been able to pinpoint students who are abusing the
“appropriate use policy” of their classroom.

Teachers can also access the Security Monitoring data by clicking View then Status Window. As
soon as teachers perform actions you will see the security messages.

Students downloading and installing a demo version of Faronics Insight caused the largest
security problem with the previous versions. Starting with Faronics Insight v6.1, the demo
version cannot interact with the released version.

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