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Work-time maps, productivity scores and top applications are recorded by the endpoint agent itself. No cloud relay and no dependency on a private network.

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The Invisible Shift: Why Remote Work Changes the Risk Profile

When employees work from home, physical oversight disappears — but the endpoint remains, and it can tell you where it is and what network it's talking to.

When employees work from the office, IT and HR can observe behavior through physical proximity, shared systems, and team lead oversight. When those same employees work from home, that context disappears. The endpoint remains — but visibility does not, unless the monitoring system lives on the device itself.

The concern is not that remote employees are dishonest. The concern is that off-network devices, unmanaged home or public Wi-Fi, and reduced daily contact create genuine blind spots for information security teams trying to detect unusual behavior, investigate incidents, or demonstrate compliance. A full day of idle time, a surge in personal-site visits, or a device suddenly showing up on an open coffee-shop network are all signals — and without an endpoint agent, they go unrecorded.

Remote work also raises a question on-site monitoring never had to answer: where is the device, and what is it connected to right now? Anexet's endpoint agent reports every Wi-Fi network it detects, with connection type and signal strength, so security teams can tell whether a laptop is on the corporate LAN, a home router, or an open network with a weak or unfamiliar signal. The same agent tracks the device's geographic location, flags movement away from its assigned site, and can be tied to a list of approved locations — turning 'is this laptop where it should be' from a guess into a recorded fact.

Managers and HR teams face a parallel challenge: how to evaluate remote employees fairly, distribute work objectively, and identify disengagement or burnout patterns without relying on anecdote. Work-time data tied to real application and website activity gives supervisors an objective baseline that protects employees and the business equally.

There is no separate 'remote mode' to switch on — the same endpoint agent, activity capture, productivity classification, Wi-Fi visibility, and location tracking that run for on-site staff continue running unchanged once a laptop leaves the office, because they operate at the OS level rather than depending on the corporate network.

Anexet's remote-employee monitoring addresses both audiences: the security team that needs an audit trail of where data and devices travel, and the manager who needs a fair, evidence-based view of how working time is actually spent.

Why it matters

  • Endpoint-resident agent

    Activity is captured on the device itself — no VPN, no cloud relay, no network-level dependency required.

  • Objective time evidence

    Work-time maps, productivity scores, and top-app rankings give security and HR a factual record, not an estimate.

  • On-premise, zero vendor access

    All captured data stays on your own server. Scinero Software Limited, the vendor, never receives or processes employee data.

What Anexet Captures for Remote Employees

The same endpoint agent that watches on-site machines keeps working once a device leaves the corporate network — capturing work-time maps, productivity data, screen activity, Wi-Fi network visibility, and device location locally, then syncing them to your on-premise server on reconnect.

Work-time and activity

  • Daily activity map

    Standard

    A visual timeline of each remote employee's working day: session starts and ends, active periods, and idle gaps — available for any historical date in the Client Console.

  • Activity statistics

    Standard

    Aggregate metrics per user per day or date range: total active time, productive time, unproductive time, and idle time.

  • PC activity monitoring

    Standard

    Continuous capture of running processes and active application windows on the endpoint. Detects attempts to bypass monitoring via portable apps or unusual processes.

Productivity and web usage

  • Productivity classification

    Standard

    Every application and website is automatically categorized as Productive, Unproductive, or Neutral based on a configurable taxonomy of ~590 application categories.

  • Unproductive-time analysis

    Standard

    Flags time spent on personal browsing, social media, or entertainment apps during working hours — useful for both HR performance reviews and early disengagement detection.

  • Top applications

    Standard

    Ranked list of desktop applications by time spent per user over any date range. Shows whether the employee's day was spent in core company tools or personal software.

  • Top websites

    Standard

    Ranked list of domains by visit time. Surfaces shadow-IT usage — file-sharing sites, personal email services, or unapproved cloud tools.

Screen and endpoint visibility

  • Screenshots

    Standard

    The agent captures screenshots at configurable intervals or on trigger. Stored on the on-premise server and visible in the Client Console — no cloud upload.

  • Screen recording and live view

    Standard

    The desktop can be recorded on a schedule or viewed live in real time, with playback tied to the activity timeline. Microphone audio recorded as a separate channel.

  • Clipboard monitoring

    Standard

    Captures clipboard content, flagging large text or file pastes that could represent data exfiltration even when other channels are not used.

Network and location context

  • Wi-Fi network visibility

    Premium

    The agent lists every Wi-Fi network it detects on the device — including networks it is not connected to — along with connection type and signal strength, also visible from the agent topology view. This shows whether a remote employee is working from the office, from home, or from an unfamiliar network, so security teams can weigh the leak risk accordingly.

  • Device geolocation

    Premium

    Tracks the geographic location of remote workstations and laptops on a map alongside offices and other endpoints, lets you tie a device to its approved locations, and flags unexpected movement or a location change — useful for spotting unauthorized device relocation.

Our team confirms the exact capability set for your environment during the demo.

On the Endpoint — No Cloud, No VPN

Anexet's endpoint agent captures the full digital record directly on the remote employee's device: work-time maps, productivity scores, top applications and websites, screenshots, screen recordings, process activity, clipboard events, the Wi-Fi networks visible to the device, and its geographic location. Because capture happens at the OS level, it works over home broadband, mobile hotspot, or any network — the agent queues captured data locally and synchronises to the on-premise server when the device reconnects to the corporate network.

Anexet is deployed on-premise; the vendor has no access to your data. All captured activity — screenshots, work-time records, application logs, clipboard content, Wi-Fi and location records — is stored exclusively on your own infrastructure. Scinero Software Limited never receives or processes any employee data, by design.

Remote employee activity timeline in the Anexet Client Console
Productivity and top-applications report for a remote worker

How Remote Employee Monitoring Works — 4 Steps

From an endpoint on a home network to a searchable, evidence-ready record in your own infrastructure.

A lightweight Anexet agent is installed on the remote employee's Windows, Linux, or macOS device (including macOS ARM64). The agent runs at the OS level, requires no VPN or cloud tunnel, and captures activity data locally.

1

All captured data — activity timelines, screenshots, application logs, clipboard events — is indexed on the organisation's own infrastructure by the Anexet Data Processing Server. No data ever leaves the corporate perimeter.

2

Security administrators configure productivity rules, alert thresholds (e.g. idle time exceeding a limit, a spike in personal browsing, a device seen on an unapproved network or outside its assigned location), and search queries in the Client Console. The Information Search module supports full-text and parameter-based queries across all captured data.

3

The security or HR team reviews work-time maps, runs productivity reports, pulls screenshots, or exports a report for a disciplinary or compliance review.

4

A lightweight Anexet agent is installed on the remote employee's Windows, Linux, or macOS device (including macOS ARM64). The agent runs at the OS level, requires no VPN or cloud tunnel, and captures activity data locally.

1

All captured data — activity timelines, screenshots, application logs, clipboard events — is indexed on the organisation's own infrastructure by the Anexet Data Processing Server. No data ever leaves the corporate perimeter.

2

Security administrators configure productivity rules, alert thresholds (e.g. idle time exceeding a limit, a spike in personal browsing, a device seen on an unapproved network or outside its assigned location), and search queries in the Client Console. The Information Search module supports full-text and parameter-based queries across all captured data.

3

The security or HR team reviews work-time maps, runs productivity reports, pulls screenshots, or exports a report for a disciplinary or compliance review.

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Remote Monitoring by Plan

StandardCore employee activity monitoring.
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Standard plan included
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PremiumAll-in-one solution.
Standard + Advanced plans included
Advanced search (digital fingerprints, hash search)
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about monitoring remote and work-from-home employees with Anexet.

What exactly does remote employee monitoring capture with Anexet?

Anexet captures the full digital activity on the endpoint: a time-mapped record of every application and website used during the working day, with productive/unproductive classification, screenshots, screen recordings, PC process activity, clipboard events, the Wi-Fi networks visible to the device, and its geographic location. All data is stored on the organisation's own server — not in the cloud.

Anexet's endpoint agent lists every Wi-Fi network it detects — not just the one it is connected to — with connection type and signal strength, and this is also visible in the agent topology view. That lets a security team see whether a device is on the corporate LAN, a home router, or an open or unfamiliar network, which is a useful signal when assessing the risk of a data leak from a given session.

Yes. Anexet tracks the geographic location of workstations and laptops, shows them on a map alongside your offices, lets you tie a device to a list of approved locations, and flags unexpected movement or a location change. This is particularly useful for remote and hybrid teams and for detecting unauthorized relocation of company hardware.

Yes. Anexet is deployed on-premise; the vendor has no access to your data. The endpoint agent transmits data to a server on your own infrastructure. Scinero Software Limited, the vendor, never receives or processes any captured employee data.

No. Captured activity data — screenshots, work-time records, application logs, clipboard content — is stored exclusively on your on-premise server. The vendor, Scinero Software Limited, has no access to customer data at any point, by design.

No — and that is by design. Anexet does not switch to a different, lighter mode when a laptop leaves the office. The same endpoint agent captures the same work-time maps, productivity data, screenshots, and screen recordings whether the device is on the corporate LAN or on a home network, because capture happens at the OS level and does not depend on a VPN or network proxy. What changes is only how the data reaches the server: locally queued and synchronised on reconnect rather than sent in real time. This is confirmed for your exact setup during the demo.

Yes. The endpoint agent captures activity locally and does not require a VPN to record data. Captured events are synchronised to the on-premise server when the device reconnects to the corporate network. This means work-time and productivity records are complete even for employees working on home broadband without a VPN tunnel.

The Anexet endpoint agent supports Windows, Linux, and macOS (including Apple Silicon / ARM64). There are no mobile agents — monitoring applies only to managed desktop and laptop devices, not smartphones or tablets.

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