InterGuard

InterGuard, developed by Awareness Technologies, is a highly mature, enterprise-grade employee monitoring and data loss prevention (DLP) platform that has been a mainstay in the industry for nearly two decades. It is architected specifically to protect organizations against the massive financial and reputational damages caused by insider threats, whether malicious (data theft) or accidental (careless data exposure). InterGuard provides profound visibility into endpoint activity, allowing security teams to record, alert on, and proactively block risky behaviors across a highly distributed workforce. The surveillance depth of InterGuard is formidable. It captures a comprehensive forensic audit trail, including all web activity, complex keystroke logging, continuous screenshots, and deep inspection of webmail (like Gmail or Yahoo) and instant messaging clients. To help analysts sift through this massive volume of data, InterGuard utilizes an advanced "Alert Word" engine. Administrators can input hundreds of keywords related to sensitive projects, competitor names, or inappropriate content; if an employee types or receives any of these words across any application, the system instantly flags the event and captures a screenshot for immediate review. Crucially, InterGuard integrates powerful DLP (Data Loss Prevention) and Endpoint Security controls directly into the monitoring agent. It can proactively block users from copying sensitive data to USB drives, prevent the use of specific cloud storage applications, and filter inappropriate web content. Furthermore, if a laptop containing sensitive data is lost, stolen, or assigned to a suddenly terminated employee, InterGuard provides critical endpoint management capabilities, allowing administrators to remotely lock the device, instantly retrieve essential files, or execute a complete "remote wipe" of the hard drive to ensure corporate data never falls into the wrong hands.