Teramind can record any or all RDP sessions on a Windows Server. Every user activity during terminal server sessions is recorded and indexed for quick access through the Teramind dashboard. See session screens in live or historic view, or recall a RDP session by activity type or event. Teramind's state of the art software features the most robust RDP session monitoring and remote desktop recording platform in the world, and can record Citrix and standalone Windows sessions as well.
RDP Recording Features:
- Monitor RDP sessions with live view, video playback and screenshots of all user activity
- Configure alerts for any user activity, or block specific high risk activities on remote desktops
- RDP session recording features full activity monitoring including tracking of all user keystrokes, emails, website visits, chats, file transfers, and print jobs
- Monitor remote employees and contractors who connect via RDP to insure protocol adherence, audit compliance and prevent security breaches
- Full featured time tracking which seamlessly allows employees to clock hours worked via RDP sessions
- Simple remote desktop control for all live sessions features the ability to manually override any user action
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Expect to pay for a product like this. Budget accordingly.
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You have to pay for it but have a look at Snagit.
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Hi
You may try this tool " OBS Studio". Hope this may help you
Explanation : Open Broadcaster Software is a free and open-source cross-platform streaming and recording program built with Qt and maintained by the OBS Project. As of 2016, the software is now referred to as OBS Studio.
//obsproject.com/
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Another thumb to Snagit - it isn't a freebie but they're not remotely overpriced IMO. Works like the Snipping Tool only way more functional and useful, including video capture.
I use it almost every day at my work for either screenshots or recording footage from one of our cameras on site simply because it's a trillion times easier [and faster] than pulling down from the NVR.
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Second for OBS
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Milerky2 wrote:
Second for OBS
Really curious, but how would OBS work in this situation?
Netwrix auditor has a good tool. Their "User Activity Recorder" for this, but it isn't free. It will even make the events reportable and searchable against other audit events its capable of recording, like logon, software installs, system changes. etc
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So, you're wishing to track others either successfully or attempting to RDP into your server? OBS could work for recording your activity, as you could start it before RDPing, but I don't believe there's a way to automate it for that use case, because it's not designed for auditing. For that kind of service, you would need to pay.
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Snagit and OBS are great, and I've used them both. Granted, both do allow for recording a screen, and you could manually run these on the system you'd be RDP'ing from, and when you're completed, you could end the recording and have a file of the session.
Perhaps I'm missing something.
It seems to me you're hoping to enforce session recording on all remote sessions to your server. You might want to look at preventing RDP, and enforcing this through your RMM tool.
A couple of the options I might look at to have it enforced would be Connectwise Control [has this functionality in it's Extended Auditing Feature], and I believe Teamviewer has the ability to enforce session recording as well.
Splashtop I believe has this functionality as well, but I'm not sure if it's enforced on all logins or if it's a manual process to record.
If you're Ok with manual recording, you might have a look at OBS or Snagit. If you want to enforce it, you might want to have a look at an RMM tool that supports this functionality.
Good luck. **Edited for punctuation.**
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Where do you plan to save these recordings? Video takes up an awful lot of space.
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What about Zoom for Windows, it's free and does compression - but you must share the screen on other side.In MacOS record feature is build in [cmd+shift+5] since Mojave, maybe you can write a script in automator when starting rdp session.
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spicehead-8m1ez wrote:
Hello,
I need to implement some security solution to enable me to track all RDP sessions to my server. I need to be able to replay recorded sessions [video format or other]. I was searching online but found only advanced and paid solutions. The solution can work as interception or on the host it self.
Is there any Opensource/Freeware solution that you use and can accomplish that?
There is nothing out of the box I can think of. OBS and SnagIT etc would still require manual recording.
The only thing close to what you are asking I can think of is CyberArk PSM, it automatically records the session you second you RDP into the server.
//docs.cyberark.com/Product-Doc/OnlineHelp/PAS/Latest/en/Content/PASIMP/Configuring-Recordings-and-Audits-in-PSM.htm
But yeah.... far from free...
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I'd almost think this would be a security risk. If you remote into an end-users machine and they don't know they are being recorded and show something on-screen like a credit card number, I'm fairly confident YOU don't want to be held liable for holding a video of that credit card exposure and potentially sharing it with other other people.
Always let users know when they are being recorded - viewing is one thing, but RECORDING and saving is an entirely different can of worms and puts everyone involved at extra risk and responsibility.
Now, for recording support sessions so that the end-user can view at a later date, for example, when implementing new products and demoing how it works, thats generally fine and you can use most remote-support applications to do this and they will host it on your behalf. Alternatively, you could use OBS and record an individual instance and share it however you see fit [private/passworded Youtube link, one drive, sharepoint, dropbox, etc].
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"You get what you pay for."
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I've used //www.activtrak.com/ before to track and record users on specific machines before, I've never tried using it on an RDS before. It's free for a couple of users after that you have to pay. Our staff are made aware that their usage can be monitored, make sure you legally allowed to do this before proceeding. You also need to be aware that you might also capture the information you don't want or are allowed to capture like from the finance, hr or legal dept depending on who uses the RDS and that this information is uploaded to the ActivTrak website portal so you can see everything.
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Session recording is an expensive and resource-intensive control. Typically it is offered with Privileged Access Management [PAM], which manages session access independently of the end-user. There is no effective "open-source" option. A budget option would be investing in an community-supported SIEM like AlienVault or Security Onion, and configure your servers to dump events and application logs. Using Elasticsearch with Kibana [ELK] is another option. These tools won't get you an interactive session replay, however, and would require a big investment in time to configure and maintain.
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BeyondTrust has this feature. I know you said free, but that's a fantasy.
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Where are these recordings getting saved and who will view them? Wouldn't it be easier to view log files that so and so got onto the server at this time?
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Astimov wrote:
Where are these recordings getting saved and who will view them? Wouldn't it be easier to view log files that so and so got onto the server at this time?
for some high risk / critical stuff that is not enough.
some privileged access has session recording requirements depending on the company and regulations
Just because you know someone logged , you don't know what they did, or didn't do
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Havent used it, but recently saw this solution
//www.deskcamera.com/Not free but its cheap -
Snagit or Berrycast 👍
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I have always used Webex Recorder and manually initiated a recording upon allowing a connection.
That said, I imagine you could create a script that would monitor for new connections from each tool that you allow to connect and create a new recording each time a remote access tool launched/connected. -
Logs are great, but can sometimes take a long time to decipher. Recordings can help identify an issue during implementations/migrations/upgrades etc.
For the most part I make recordings to document external/3rd party support steps/results to create internal procedures so that my team doesn't have to continue to call external support.
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Hi, It's working fine. I can help anyone who wants to use it.