Introduction
If you are required to show a message to your employees that they are being monitored (due to your company policy or other compliance reasons), you can set up a simple Agent rule. See the instructions below to learn how:
Rule Walkthrough
The example below shows you how to create a Schedule rule to show users a privacy notice when the log in.
Result
This is how the alert will look like:
Setting Up the Rule
General Settings
1. Assign a Rule Name. For example, “Privacy Notice”.
2. Select a Parent Policy. For example, “Admin Policy”.
3. Select “Schedule” for Rule Type.
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Employees
5. Turn on the Inherit targets from Parent Policy option to use the policy’s default targets.
6. Alternatively, turn it off and manually select the employees, departments and/or computers for the rules target from the Assign to field.
7. Optionally, you can exclude targets in the Exclude from rule field.
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Schedule
8. Add a definition (condition block) by clicking the New Condition button. Then, configure it as follows:
Definition 1
9. Select "Login" from Select type of schedule violation.
10. Optionally, enable the Count screen unlock as Login option to treat screen unlock as a login event.
11. Optionally, enable the Apply rule on these days and select days when the rule will be enforced. In this example, we selected only the weekdays (Mon to Fri).
12. Optionally, drag the circles on the slider to specify a time range. The rule will be enforced only during this time. You can use the Plus + icon to add timeslots to account for off-hours or breaks. Use the Minus - icon to remove a slot.
13. Optionally, you can use the Restricted IPs button to specify a set of IP addresses - the user will be allowed login only from these addresses.
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Actions
14. Select the Warn action.
15. Add a message. For example, “Activities on this computer are monitored for security and compliance.”.
16. Optionally, turn on the Use HTML Template option to show the message in a visually appealing template.
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Rationale for the Rule
When using the Stealth Agent, this rule helps you fulfill transparency requirements by display a privacy notice to employees.
The rule functions by combining the Login criteria to detect as soon as a user logs into the computer. The Warn action ensures users are informed of the monitoring status.