If a picture is worth a thousand words and video comes in at 30 frames a second, then is a second of video worth 30,000 words? If those words are in a log file, then potentially yes.

A relatively new concept in the idea of employee monitoring, ICA/RDP stream recording enables the administrator to watch what goes on in a Terminal Services or Citrix session as it occurs. Tools like CNS Software's RecordTS record what's actually going on inside the protocol stream, making the resulting videos very small as well as encrypted. If your company is worried about meeting compliance regulations, or you need to closely monitor employee actions on the server -- like when they're doing financial or sensitive transactions -- RecordTS is a tool that may interest you.

In this podcast, we talk with Cassandra Cranston and Claudio Rodrigues of CNS Software. We discuss the need for video recording for certain industries as well as the technology behind this interesting and useful new method for Terminal Server and Citrix monitoring.