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, change other settings as needed.
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Actions
12. Select the Warn action.
13. Add a message. For example, “Activities on this computer are monitored for security and compliance.”.
14. 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.