Onderzoek naar lekken van intellectuele eigendom

Een privéschool met een geavanceerde studie exacte wetenschappen nam contact op met CleverControl met een delicaat verzoek. De school volgde de laatste trends en implementeerde de laatste innovaties in het onderwijs. Het unieke programma in Wiskunde was het onderwerp van hun bijzondere trots. De cursus omvatte een complete set van theoretisch materiaal, oefeningen, spelletjes en toetsen voor elke klas, gebaseerd op de innovatieve aanpak. Het was het resultaat van het lange werk van de twee leraren, dat weldra leerboeken zouden worden voor scholen met gevorderde studies wiskunde. Tot dan mochten andere personeelsleden het materiaal niet buiten de school delen of gebruiken voor privé-lessen.

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.

• Externe opslagactiviteit

  Het monitoren van externe opslagapparaten hielp om lekken van onderwijsmateriaal aan het licht te brengen.
• Schermopname

  Opnames van het scherm van de leraar bewezen het feit van ongeoorloofd kopiëren.
• Online toezicht

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