Investigarea scurgerilor de proprietate intelectuală

O școală privată cu studii avansate de științe exacte a contactat CleverControl cu o cerere delicată. Școala urmărea cele mai recente tendințe și a implementat cele mai recente inovații în predare. Programul unic de matematică a fost subiectul mândriei lor deosebite. Cursul a inclus un set complet de materiale teoretice, exerciții, jocuri și teste pentru fiecare clasă, bazate pe abordarea inovatoare. A fost un rezultat al muncii îndelungate a celor doi profesori, care avea să devină în curând manuale pentru școlile cu studii avansate de matematică. Până atunci, ceilalți membri ai personalului nu aveau voie să împărtășească materialele în afara școlii sau să le folosească în cadrul meditațiilor private.

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.

• Activitatea de stocare externă

  Monitorizarea dispozitivelor de stocare externe a contribuit la descoperirea scurgerilor de materiale educaționale.
• Înregistrare pe ecran

  Înregistrările de pe ecranul profesorului au dovedit faptul copierii neautorizate.
• Monitorizare online

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