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Determining personal email use of company workstation ?
In a small business, with the onsite workstations behind the router, I'm trying to come up with a way to determine if employee has been using the workstation for personal work, like email, social media, etc.
The traffic is not likely to be via the Server, which is mainly for backoffice work, AR/AP/bookkeeping matters with only limited use of outside email via established/automated links. The traffic is all being managed via one Router and one Internet Modem.
My guess is the first step is just lay hands on the workstations and see how the cookies crumble. Unless the browser is set to purge on close or the employee wisely deletes all the cookies, we should be able to see that Gmail or yahoo or whatever has been accessed. But beyond that I'm not so sure much at all can be determined without intrusion that may not stand up well.
My experience has been that few small businesses ever know how to set administrative tools on the router but it is worth checking I think. If blind luck, the traffic might be logged by MAC address?
My limited understanding is that not all routers have serious Admin tools for logging the traffic to/from the connected devices on the WIFI channels or LAN/ether. Some do, so I will need to get at the router and check. Otherwise, only snooping the workstation gives any info.... Am I missing a trick?
thx