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a laptop showing activity 9 to 6 every day tells you nothing about whether that time went to real work, long idle gaps, or just... browsing. and a VPN connection just means someone logged in. that's it. that's all it tells you.

the actual review order that holds up:

apps/websites used, then work hours & idle time, then file/USB/software changes, then screenshots (last resort, not a daily thing)

most people should stop at the first two for routine checks. screen recordings are for when something's already flagged, not something you casually scroll through.

biggest mix-up: treating sign-in logs as "monitoring." they're not the same thing. a sign-in confirms someone connected, not what they did after.

full thing: https://bit.ly/4f1ASEF

so here's the thing about "unauthorized access to company devices" — it's almost never a hacker in a hoodie. it's an account nobody remembered to turn off, a usb drive somebody used to move one file real quick, a laptop that went home for a "few days" and just. stayed there.

the actual checklist is boring on purpose:

who logged in → when and where → what changed → how did they even get in

most people check the first three and call it done. the "how" question is the one that catches shared passwords and unlocked screens, which is honestly the more common failure mode than anything cinematic.

a 10 minute check once a week catches most of this before it turns into an incident report nobody wanted to write.