User Activity Monitoring (UAM) solutions allow admins to monitor user activity across endpoint devices, web browsers, email and instant messaging channels, and other applications. This protects against insider threats, prevents data loss, and can prevent security breaches by flagging suspicious behaviors.
User activity monitoring solutions work by capturing and analyzing user behavior when using corporate devices or applications. They provide admins with insights on what data, applications, and services a user has accessed. They provide alerts based on custom rules engines to flag suspicious activities or compromised accounts and can help to prevent compromise of sensitive data from internal corporate systems.
UAM solutions provide critical data to admins, from alerts on suspicious activities, to live real-time application usage. The aim of these solutions is to detect suspicious behaviors that may suggest fraudulent activities or breaches in compliance. If a potential breach is detected, these solutions are equipped with real-time alarms and remediation systems which alert the admins so they can investigate and quickly mitigate the risk. User activity monitoring functionality is often included in wider endpoint security, endpoint management, or data loss prevention (DLP) solutions.
In this article, we’ll compare the top User Activity Monitoring solutions for business available today. We will explore their notable features, integrations, activity tracking abilities, and their overall efficiency based on our own internal expert research. The market for UAM solutions is competitive, with a number of vendors providing user activity monitoring. UAM solutions typically offer features like comprehensive activity reports, real-time alerts, an intelligent analytics system, policy creation and enforcement, as well as integrations with other security tools.
There are a number of user activity monitoring solutions focused on tracking user productivity, particularly for remote teams. However, this article will focus on user monitoring for data loss prevention and security compliance, rather than for employee management, although some solutions covered do overlap in these capabilities.