Abstract: A method for controlling the access of a user to a network. The following steps are provided: determining a monitoring parameter which corresponds to the access of the user to at least one program and/or at least one service and/or at least one file of the network and/or location information assigned to the network and/or to the user, comparing the monitoring parameter with a first threshold and cutting off the access of the user to the network on the basis of the result of the comparison. A network is also provided comprising at least one data processing device which is designed to carry out the method according to the invention and to a computer program containing program code, the computer program being designed to carry out the steps of the aforementioned method.