According to Compliance Week, one of the top priorities of 2010 will be employee monitoring.

And it's easy to see why - as they say in the article, imagine if an employee is siphoning money out of your company and into the account of an old college buddy. Would you be able to catch it right away? How?

If you had the best employee monitoring software you would.

There's also compliance issues to address, and everything from the loss of billable hours in social networking sites, to Internet gambling, and more.

Employee monitoring is already a given in many Fortune 500 companies, and "nearly 60 percent of companies" polled by Compliance Week indicated that employee monitoring is or will be a major part of their overall business approach in 2010.

There are means of streamlining the process of computer monitoring to make it easier to accomplish and evaluate, but step one is definitely purchasing good quality computer monitoring software to get the job done, and to get it done right.