Monitor user activity. Detect anomalies. Respond to incidents.
Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 provide powerful desktop virtualization services but lack built-in tools to protect your infrastructure against insider threats.
To secure your corporate data and resources against malicious or negligent insiders, leverage the capabilities of Syteca — a robust cybersecurity platform. With Syteca, you can monitor user activity and record sessions on cloud desktops, ensuring compliance and security across Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0.
with Syteca
Monitor and record privileged and regular user sessions across your virtual environments.
Receive instant alerts on suspicious user activity and automate response actions to mitigate threats promptly.
Identify when users perform unauthorized system changes, misuse resources, or otherwise neglect to follow your information security policies.
Reconstruct security incidents with timestamped activity logs, keystroke monitoring, and user session recordings.
Streamline compliance with various cybersecurity standards, laws, and regulations, including PCI DSS, HIPAA, and the GDPR.
Analyze user activity, detect idle sessions, and identify inefficient workflow patterns that require improvement.
Syteca enables you to record and manage remote sessions on Windows 7, Windows 10, and Windows 11 cloud desktops in real time. These cloud desktops are powered by Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019, so you can also monitor any activity on the servers themselves.
Syteca’s Amazon AppStream 2.0 monitoring capabilities allow you to track the use of non-persistent Windows desktops and applications accessed via Amazon AppStream 2.0 from any desktop.
Syteca can monitor user activity on cloud-based desktops provided by Amazon Linux WorkSpaces. Augment your hardware capacity with cloud desktops built on Amazon Linux 2 LTS and track and audit your employees’ activity. With Syteca, you can also monitor Amazon AppStream 2.0 services for Linux virtual desktops.
Fast and easy deployment
Deploy Syteca fast without performing complex configurations and infrastructure changes. Implementation is simple and straightforward. If any questions arise, Syteca support is at your service.
Floating licensing
Benefit from a low total cost of ownership thanks to the opportunity to reassign licences between endpoints in just a couple of clicks. To make things even easier, you can automate the distribution of purchased licenses between active virtual endpoints.
Cybersecurity compliance
Make sure your organization complies with cybersecurity requirements when using Amazon WorkSpaces. Syteca helps you comply with NIST SP 800-53, the GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and other standards, laws, and regulations.
Enterprise-ready
Syteca works flawlessly for enterprises as well as for small and midsize businesses. Leverage the platform’s scalability for larger environments. Syteca ensures high availability, disaster recovery, and integration with popular SIEM and ticketing systems.
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AWS monitoring and session recording tools allow organizations to oversee user activity within their AWS cloud environments. Syteca is a comprehensive cybersecurity platform that enables organizations to monitor and record user activity within AWS WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0 cloud environments, and other types of physical and virtual desktops.
Amazon WorkSpaces doesn’t include built-in tools for monitoring user activity on virtual desktops. However, you can enhance security and visibility by deploying dedicated AWS WorkSpaces monitoring tools like Syteca.
Syteca’s monitoring solution for Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 offers comprehensive user activity tracking, session recording, access management, and incident response capabilities to help you safeguard your virtual endpoints against insider threats.
With Syteca, you gain full visibility of all user activities, protect critical assets, and ensure compliance — all without disrupting user workflows.
Monitor user activity — keep track of user activity within your network via on-screen recordings accompanied by comprehensive activity logs such as typed keystrokes, uploaded files, visited URLs, connected USB devices, etc.
Stop incidents — get real-time alerts on unusual user activity and immediately mitigate threats with automated incident responses such as blocking malicious users, killing suspicious processes, or warning users about policy violations.
Examine your cybersecurity landscape — gain insights into the root cause of incidents with in-depth forensic investigation trails and audit-ready session recordings. Leverage more than 30 types of detailed reports to analyze your overall cybersecurity landscape, identify vulnerabilities, and address them promptly.
Screen recording and security monitoring tools like Syteca provide real-time visibility into user activity, allowing you to swiftly identify and respond to potential security incidents. Monitoring solutions can also help your organization meet IT compliance requirements by providing detailed audit trails, user activity logs, and comprehensive reports.
Yes, as long as you comply with the relevant data privacy laws and regulations for your area and industry. We recommend that you seek guidance from legal experts and thoroughly review the applicable requirements before implementing user activity monitoring solutions.
Note that Syteca offers an optional data pseudonymization feature that masks personally identifiable information (PII) and any other sensitive data in the monitoring results. By enabling this feature, Syteca provides monitoring while ensuring compliance with the GDPR, CCPA, and other data privacy regulations.
In addition to monitoring user activity in real time, Syteca offers incident response and reporting capabilities. When combined, these features can efficiently detect and prevent insider-related threats on your Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 virtual endpoints.
With Syteca, you can select, combine, and pay only for the features you need according to your particular cybersecurity requirements. This way, you avoid overpaying for tools and products you won’t use.
Yes. You can use Syteca as a monitoring tool for Amazon WorkSpaces and AppStream 2.0 virtual environments to meet data security and privacy compliance requirements. Syteca’s extensive feature set can help you comply with many cybersecurity standards, laws, and regulations including PCI DSS, HIPAA, NIS2, GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, SOX, FISMA, GLBA, and SWIFT CSP.
By implementing Syteca on your Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops, you can not only monitor user activity but also configure and receive real-time alerts on suspicious user activity and other unusual events. Syteca’s customizable rule-based system lets you specify when notifications should be sent and when automated responses should be triggered.
Dedicated monitoring solutions like Syteca allow you to gain valuable insights into the security of your Amazon WorkSpaces environment by generating reports on user activity. Syteca offers 30+ reports with in-depth information on user productivity, application usage, internet activity, security alerts, and more.
Contact our team to learn how our insider risk management software can safeguard your organization’s data from any risks caused by human factors. Book a call with us at a time that suits you best, and let’s explore how we can help you achieve your security goals.
