Securing Your Internet

1. Securing Your Internet - Discussion on ways to protect your family online.

2. Goals • Share Information • Raise Awareness • Provide Resources

3. What the Goals are NOT • Insult Intelligence • Degrade Beliefs • Fix everything

4. AWARENESS • Awareness is the state or ability to perceive, to feel, or to be conscious of events, objects, or sensory patterns.

5. One size fits all? • Different age children • Different knowledge levels • Different Technologies • Mac • PC • Phone • Game Console

6. Different Environments • Home • School • Friends house • Different belief systems • Family Relationships

7. SOCIAL ENGINEERING • The practice of deceiving someone, either in person, over the phone, or using a computer, with the express intent of breaching some level of security either personal or professional.

9. A Parents Challenge • Just like driving, the Internet is a powerful tool our children need to learn how to use. • Just like driving, it is our responsibility to teach them how to do it safely. • Unlike driving, our kids know more about the Internet then we do.

10. What Is The Internet ? • A large collection of networks all connected around the world. • It is global, there is no geography. • Few international laws or police. • In many ways the wild, wild west.

11. Top online risks to your kids • Strangers / Criminals • Friends • Themselves

12. Strangers / Criminals • These individuals often attempt to befriend their victims online, perhaps even pretending to be another child. Once they gain the trust of a child, they use that to their advantage, perhaps asking for pictures, information or even meet in person.

13. Friends • Often classmates, friends can be dangerous, especially cyber bullying. Cyber bullying can be in the form of Facebook posts, SMS messages or forum emails. Cyber bullying can be far more abusive then physically abusing, as you may not know who the bully is and they and attacks can be both more aggressive and very public.

14. Themselves • In today's age your kids can be their own greatest risk. Dangers including posting personal information or images of themselves and frequently trusting anyone. Universities and hiring departments often now do background checks on the Internet, including Facebook.

15. Five Steps to Protecting your Family • Education • Dedicated Computer • Computer Rules • Filtering • Monitoring

16. Education • Talk to your kids about risks of being online. Make sure they feel comfortable talking to you about anything they do not understand or are afraid of. Education is the best security measure you can take, technology is changing too fast for a program to solve you and your children’s problems.

17. Dedicated Computer • Have a dedicated computer just for your kids and keep it in a public area. Ensure each child has their own, non-privileged account so you can track their activity.

18. Computer Rules • Have a set of agreed upon rules and post those rules next to the kids computer.

19. Filtering • When kids are younger filter their activities, this helps prevent them from accidently visiting unwanted content. As they get older filtering becomes less effective.

20. Monitoring • Track your kids activities, including the websites they visit, the terms they search for and the people they talk to. Some software supports weekly or monthly email reports.

21. 7 Steps to a Secure Computer • Starting Secure • Updating • Security Software • Accounts • Security on the go • Using the Computer • Backups

22. Conclusion • We can not eliminate the threat that resides on the internet………….. • We can however reduce the risk to our families, and ultimately save time and money by education and awareness that changes behavior.