NetShareWatcher 1.5.5

Nsasoft LLC is a privately owned software company from Armenia, established in 2004 by a group of experienced network and security professionals. The company – which is lead by network and system engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the security research and development field, Varuzhan Kankanyan – specializes in network diagnostic and monitoring applications for businesses and end users.

We’ve taken a look at software applications developed by Nsasoft LLC before here on FindMySoft. To be more precise, we’ve taken a look at these following two applications:

Backup Key Recovery, a software application that works with all Windows versions (including Windows 7) that can be used to backup product keys as well as recover more than 1000 software product keys.
Nsauditor Network Security Auditor, network security and vulnerability scanner that uses more than 45 network tools and utilities to monitor network computers for vulnerabilities. It also inspects the network to try and locate any methods a hacker might use to get it.

It is now time to take a look at another Nsasoft LLC-developed application, mainly NetShareWatcher. The application weighs in at little over 1MB, so the download should complete in no time at all – and so should the installation process. What can you do with the application after you’ve downloaded and installed in on your computer? You can use NetShareWatcher to monitor network shares and identify shares which are violating data access policy. That’s right, NetShareWatcher is a network security improvement software.

Everything about this piece of software is centered around ease of use. First of all, you should not have a problem using the application, not with such an intuitive and easy to figure out interface. Next, you need only configure the app once and forget about it – the app will do the monitoring and will take an action (that you configured) when it detects shares which are violating data access policy.

Pros

• Lightweight download
• Easy to use
• Monitor network shared folders and permissions
• Detect network shares creation/deletion/permission changes

Cons

• Free to use only during the 15-day trial period
• Offers support only for XP and Vista; there’s no Windows 7 support.

NetShareWatcher has been reviewed by George Norman on 14 Apr 2010. Based on the user interface, features and complexity, Findmysoft has rated NetShareWatcher 4 out of 5 stars, naming it Excellent