知的財産の漏えいを調査する

厳密な科学を高度に研究する私立学校から、CleverControl に微妙な依頼がありました。この学校は、最新のトレンドに従い、最新の革新的な教育を実践していました。数学のユニークなプログラムは、彼らの特別な誇りの対象でした。このコースには、革新的なアプローチに基づく各学年の理論教材、練習問題、ゲーム、テストが一式含まれていました。二人の教師の長い研究の成果であり、やがて数学の先進校の教科書になるものであった。それまでは、他の職員がこの教材を校外で共有したり、個人指導で使うことは許されなかった。

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.

• 外部ストレージの活動

  外部記憶装置を監視することで、教材の漏えいを明らかにすることができました。
• 画面収録

  先生の画面を録画することで、不正コピーの事実が証明されました。
• オンラインモニタリング

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