Enquêter sur les fuites de propriété intellectuelle

Une école privée avec une étude avancée des sciences exactes a contacté CleverControl avec une demande délicate. L'école suivait les dernières tendances et mettait en œuvre les dernières innovations en matière d'enseignement. Le programme unique en mathématiques faisait l'objet de leur fierté particulière. Le cours comprenait un ensemble complet de supports théoriques, d'exercices, de jeux et de tests pour chaque niveau, basés sur l'approche innovante. C'était le résultat du long travail des deux enseignants, qui deviendrait bientôt des manuels pour les écoles ayant des études avancées en mathématiques. Jusque-là, les autres membres du personnel n'étaient pas autorisés à partager ce matériel en dehors de l'école ou à l'utiliser dans le cadre de cours particuliers.

However, when the headmaster talked to her colleagues from other schools, she learned that some were already using materials developed in her school. Those teachers refused to tell where they had got them, but one thing was clear: the unique program had leaked. The headmaster needed to identify the source of the leak and prevent further unauthorized sharing.

The teachers downloaded the educational materials from the school's secure server to their classroom computers. The headmaster assumed that the source of the leak either copied the data to an external storage device or sent it out by email. After proper authorization and employee notice, the school's IT specialist installed CleverControl on authorized school computers to review activity related to these channels.

The headmaster and the IT specialist checked reports from each computer daily but did not find any suspicious activity. Most probably, the mole had copied all the materials before the program was installed. To determine whether the leak was ongoing, the headmaster asked the authors to add some new educational materials to the school server and continued the authorized monitoring with CleverControl. That brought results: logs from one of the new substitute teacher's computer showed that an external storage device was plugged in. To be sure, the headmaster also checked screen recordings for that period of time, which confirmed the fact of copying the materials. A further internal investigation revealed that the new substitute teacher had shared the educational materials with a friend from another school. The friend then shared them with her colleagues. Besides, the substitute teacher did private tutoring using the stolen materials.

The school took appropriate internal action according to its policies.

• Activité de stockage externe

  La surveillance des dispositifs de stockage externes a permis de révéler des fuites de matériel pédagogique.
• Enregistrement d'écran

  Les enregistrements de l'écran du professeur ont prouvé le fait de la copie non autorisée.
• Suivi en ligne

  Secure remote monitoring via the online dashboard supported the internal investigation after proper authorization and employee notice.