# Can we see if a leaving employee uploads company data to the cloud?

Partly: you can see unusual uploads from their computer, not the files or the person. On every plan, NetSenX compares each device's outbound traffic with that device's own normal destinations, volumes and times of day, and raises an alert when, for example, a laptop that usually sends little suddenly uploads several gigabytes to a cloud storage service at night. The alert shows the device, destination, volume and time. It does not show file names or content, because the traffic is encrypted and NetSenX never decrypts it, and it cannot see copies to a USB stick. Treat such an alert as a security event first: the laptop may also be infected. Any step towards the employee should follow your policy, the law and advice from HR and legal, not the alert alone.

General information, not legal advice. National laws can add to the EU texts quoted here, for example deadlines, forms or reporting channels: check your own country's rules.

FAQ: [People, HR and insider risk](https://netsenx.com/en/faq/people) · https://netsenx.com/en/faq/can-we-see-if-a-leaving-employee-uploads-company-data

## Read next

- https://netsenx.com/en/is-someone-inside-your-network
- https://netsenx.com/en/dpa
- https://netsenx.com/en/eu-data-residency

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