Cybersecurity for Parents, Teachers and Kids

Understand how kids’ online access to social media, games, and websites creates cybersecurity risks for families, including inappropriate conduct and content, online predators, and related privacy laws and parental liability.

Parents guide kids that online actions have consequences and to post only what they are comfortable with, use privacy settings, avoid impersonation, and guard personal information.

Explore cyberbullying on online platforms, including harassment, forwarding hurtful images, and emotional impact. Learn to report abuse, support peers, avoid retaliation, and understand potential platform bans and legal actions.

Learn to keep kids' online communications secure by teaching etiquette, privacy controls, strong passwords, and phishing awareness across emails, chats, and video apps.

Protect endpoints by enforcing authentication, antivirus, and encryption, and using secure protocols. Lock screens and control external ports while deploying approved software on company devices with regular patching.

Empower parents to set mobile phone rules, enable privacy and security settings, monitor texting and sexting, and guard kids from online predators through parental controls and education.

Parents set expectations for device use and enforce consequences, then protect kids’ computers with updated anti-malware, host intrusion detection systems, and patches, while applying parental controls to promote safe behavior.

Understand how to protect kids' privacy by knowing what constitutes personal information, complying with privacy laws, and applying consent, privacy policies, and parental monitoring on online platforms.

Identify how information security protects information in any format, including digital data, paper records, and spoken information, through confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Teachers learn to safeguard information within their organization.

Identify information security threats, including human threats from hackers and disgruntled employees, errors, hardware and software vulnerabilities, and cybersecurity attacks, as well as equipment and utility failures and natural disasters.

Raise security awareness to cut incidents by teaching users to identify phishing emails, phishing SMS, and fake calls; follow security best practices and report issues to the security team.

Learn the main causes of security incidents, from social engineering and weak authentication to insecure devices and poor password practices, with practical countermeasures for schools and families.

Learn about physical security best practices, including visitor management and access control. Prevent tailgating, protect sensitive areas, and safeguard removable devices and assets during travel.

Adopt clear desk and clear screen practices to protect physical and logical security. Secure confidential papers and USB devices, shred sensitive documents, and enable screen savers to prevent shoulder surfing.

Strengthen password security by enforcing minimum eight characters with complexity, changing every 90 days, password history to prevent reuse, account lockout and avoiding sharing, writing down, or saving passwords.

Learn how to use the internet safely with approved devices, updated security tools, and safe browsing; enable privacy settings, avoid unsafe downloads, and report cyberbullying if it occurs.

Use official email for official purposes and access the internet on company devices. Follow security policies and etiquette; avoid free downloads, unsafe sites, spam, phishing, and protect social media privacy.

Backups protect data from cyberattacks, malware, and ransomware by enabling recovery from secure copies. Identify data, set backup frequency, verify copies, run restoration tests, and securely protect external backup media.

Learn how identity theft occurs, including phishing, hacking, social engineering and skimming, and implement countermeasures like strong passwords, multifactor authentication, and careful handling of private data.

Learn how social engineering attackers manipulate users via phishing, smishing, and phone calls, and discover practical countermeasures to verify communications and protect personal data for parents, teachers and kids.

Learn to recognize sympathy fraud, romance fraud, cyber stalking, and cyber bullying on social media, and apply safeguards like verifying unknown friend requests, limiting personal data, and using parental controls.

Mobile application fraud uses free downloads with trojans to access your email, contacts, call history, and camera. Download from trusted sources and grant only required permissions.

Explore how online banking fraud happens via application vulnerabilities, weak passwords, and password reuse. Implement multi-factor authentication, strong unique passwords, alerts, and separate credentials for access and transactions.

Identify how malware spreads via external drives, untrusted downloads, and system vulnerabilities, and apply protection through anti-malware tools, regular patching, and guarding against social engineering.

Explore essential endpoint protection for organizations, including authentication, antivirus and host intrusion prevention, encryption, secure protocols, device locking, and policies for approved software, patching, and IoT risks.