3ami in the news

12/03/2013 - 3ami MAS set to support Police Force efficiency drive and assist in maintaining highest standards of integrity

3ami have recently been awarded a three year contract to provide monitoring and audit software solutions to, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police under their Joint Procurement Initiative. Originally developed 10 years ago for the police service by 3ami, 3ami Monitoring and Audit System (MAS) has a proven track record in the field of professional standards, providing a comprehensive monitoring solution that tracks all user activity across an organisation’s entire computer system.

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27/06/2011 - Workplace ‘spy’ could end fun for Facebook addicts (Daily Mail Article)

Facebook addicts who log on during work, beware. Revolutionary software previously restricted mainly to police forces and corporations is now available to small and medium-sized businesses. The monitoring and audit system (MAS), itself the product of a small business – 3ami, which has ten staff – will let your boss know exactly how much time you spend on social networks when you are supposed to be working. It will record every keystroke, search and document printed or stored.

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12/05/2011 - Wise management

The Monitoring and Audit System (MAS) from 3ami has been developed over the last decade with a number of police forces and has proved to be so effective at identifying and proving cases of police corruption and inappropriate behaviour that its use is now rapidly spreading to other organisations wishing to protect their intellectual property and commerciallysensitive information. Here in the UK, police forces face severe cuts to their funding which is driving them to identify wider uses for the systems they use. MAS collects data about activity performed on every device on which it is installed, which is then sent to a central secure server, providing a vast amount of information about what police officers and staff are doing at any point in the day.

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07/04/2011 - Bribery Act

In announcing the publication of guidelines last week on how the Bribery Act 2010 should be managed, the Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke described bribery as a crime that "we know when we see".

The guidelines demonstrate the Government has listened to concerns that honest companies may get caught out unwittingly. However, it still fails to take account of the cultural differences particularly in relation to companies that trade overseas. What may be perceived as a bribe in the UK may simply be seen by others as an accepted way of doing business.

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07/09/2010 - USB lockdown capability of 3ami MAS saves the day at agile New Zealand electrotechnology firm

Manchester, 7th September 2010 - An electrotechnology firm that has won numerous infrastructure projects throughout the South Pacific over its 73-year history has deployed 3ami Monitoring and Audit System (3ami MAS) to safeguard its intellectual property against theft. McKay, a rapidly growing firm whose clients include BAE and New Zealand's Royal Navy, uses 3ami MAS to prevent employees from downloading confidential company files onto personal USB mass storage devices and removing those files from the premises without authorisation.

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08/02/2010 - Lancashire Constabulary Chooses 3ami MAS for Protective Monitoring of Force's IT Systems

Lancashire Constabulary is using 3ami Monitoring and Audit System to comply with new data security regulations from the Association of Chief Police Officers. Coming into effect March 2010, the ACPO Information Systems Community Security Policy lists "protective monitoring" as a control UK police forces must score against to comply with the policy matrix. With a few minor exceptions, such as passwords and confidential reporting, 3ami MAS will monitor all data input on Lancashire Constabulary's network of terminals, including mobile and portable terminals.

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01/05/2009 - Norway tests laptop exam scheme

About 6,000 students in Norway are doing exams on their laptops in a trial that could soon be rolled out across the country. Every 16-19 year-old in Nord-Trondelag county in Norway has been trying out the laptop-based system. The secondary students are given a laptop by the government when they turn 16 to help them with schoolwork. During exams the specially-tailored software springs into life to block and record any attempt at cheating.

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25/01/2005 - Software watching while you work

Software that can not only monitor every keystroke and action performed at a PC but also be used as legally binding evidence of wrong-doing has been unveiled. Worries about cyber-crime and sabotage have prompted many employers to consider monitoring employees. The developers behind the system claim it is a break-through in the way data is monitored and stored. But privacy advocates are concerned by the invasive nature of such software.

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