We are a small company, 15 people and by default since I am now the most computer savy person here (the last network administrator decided to quit) I am being left in charge until we find someone else new to take over. I know that a lot of people are doing personal stuff on the clock and I want to stop that or at least have some proof to show to the boss to make him aware and be able to back it up.
I was thinking WireShark might be what I want to use. We have 11 computers that are wired on the LAN and we have 4 that are always on an open wifi connection (these are not used for anything sensitive and is set up in a "Y" configuration so that there is no access to the LAN from those.
I want to know the best way to monitor what is going through the network but I will admit I am more versed in web design, now network administration. All I really care about is being able to see what computer (name or IP Address is fine) is going to what websites. I don't care about logging logins and passwords, just knowing the destination they are traveling to.
The main reason is there is one person that I know has been going to some sites that are in the adult genera. I was doing a little work on it and went to the history and what do you know...adultmatch.com. This is being done on a company issued laptop and going through the company T1. I didn't have the time to take a screen shot of it and now I notice that he is deleting his history every time he closes Firefox.
Can anyone give me some advice as to what the best software would be for doing this? And for all the legal blah blah blah, it is written down in the company policy that all email and network traffic is subject to monitoring. I just don't want to spend $50 for some kind of software to monitor the laptop and then send me reports on what is happening. I want to be able to do it in as close to as real time as possible.
I was thinking WireShark might be what I want to use. We have 11 computers that are wired on the LAN and we have 4 that are always on an open wifi connection (these are not used for anything sensitive and is set up in a "Y" configuration so that there is no access to the LAN from those.
I want to know the best way to monitor what is going through the network but I will admit I am more versed in web design, now network administration. All I really care about is being able to see what computer (name or IP Address is fine) is going to what websites. I don't care about logging logins and passwords, just knowing the destination they are traveling to.
The main reason is there is one person that I know has been going to some sites that are in the adult genera. I was doing a little work on it and went to the history and what do you know...adultmatch.com. This is being done on a company issued laptop and going through the company T1. I didn't have the time to take a screen shot of it and now I notice that he is deleting his history every time he closes Firefox.
Can anyone give me some advice as to what the best software would be for doing this? And for all the legal blah blah blah, it is written down in the company policy that all email and network traffic is subject to monitoring. I just don't want to spend $50 for some kind of software to monitor the laptop and then send me reports on what is happening. I want to be able to do it in as close to as real time as possible.