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Feature Overview  

Pearl Echo tracks Internet activity by looking at content as it travels to and 

from a workstation computer via the computer's built in Winsock networking 

components. This approach enables Pearl Echo to run reliably and silently in 

the background. The only indication that Pearl Echo is running is the display 

of an optional warning message on the Workstation. 

Pearl Echo's configuration software allows you to customize how you monitor 

and manage access to Internet Web, Email, Chat, Instant Messaging, News 

and FTP.  Access Control Profiles are used to control the Internet access of 

individual users or groups of users.  If you install Pearl Echo Server Software 

on a machine in a Windows Domain, User names and Group names are 

gathered from your Active Directory database. This reduces administration by 

eliminating the need to maintain separate profile accounts in Pearl Echo. 

Monitoring Employee Internet Access 

Pearl Echo allows you to retrace nearly every step an Internet user makes, by 

creating a complete audit trail of Internet activity, including World Wide Web, 

File Transfers, News, Chat, Instant Messaging, and Email. Pearl Echo's Quick 

Link  feature allows the password holder to automatically link back to the 

actual World Wide Web and FTP sites the user visited, or to restore the text of 

incoming and outgoing News, Email, Chat and Instant Messaging items. As a 

monitoring tool, Pearl Echo watches Internet activity and reports it back to 

you. 

Managing Employee Internet Access 

For managing Internet access, Pearl Echo provides fully customizable Allow 

and Block Control lists that are categorized into Web sites, FTP resources, 

Email addresses, newsgroups and chat/instant messaging. Internet Security 

control can be set to allow varying levels of access. Each segment of the 

Internet can be set independently with the default being set to allow and 

monitor all sites.  Multiple Profiles can be created in order to define various 

configurations of Internet access. 

Pearl Echo can also be configured to block incoming and outgoing content 

based on a user defined set of keywords. The primary focus of this feature is 

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