InterGuard
sells software that leaves 'no indication it had ever been installed' — and requires you to tell employees it is there.
the vendor's marketing and its own contract give opposite instructions about whether employees must be told.
interguard's covert positioning is the most explicit here. it describes investigative or stealth monitoring as 'deployed to endpoints and completely hidden... cannot be found through standard system checks and there is no indication the software had ever been installed', software that can be 'silently and remotely installed to conduct covert investigations without alarming the suspected wrongdoer'. and it states the purpose directly: 'with stealth monitoring, your employees won't necessarily know when they're being monitored, so they won't be tempted to change their behavior because of it'.
on the same page, interguard's own terms of use 'require that you only install its software on devices that you own or have permission to monitor and that you inform all users of those devices that they are being monitored', adding that failure to do so 'may result in breaking of federal and state laws'. the marketing sells the value of employees not knowing. the contract requires that they be told. a buyer who follows the marketing violates the licence; a buyer who follows the licence loses the feature they bought.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
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- employee monitoring tools
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- interguardsoftware.com
the vendor's marketing and its own contract give opposite instructions about whether employees must be told.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.