Business technology provides companies with Mobile Device Management tools that they use to protect their corporate devices from all kinds of threats. Those tools include content filtering to prevent inappropriate content from being accessed on business devices. The continued problem for parents trying to control the network settings of their child’s iOS device is that it is easy for the child to disable them. With Mobile Device Management that businesses use, those kind of changes are not possible. Fortunately, if …
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As I have said countless times, a layered approach is the best way to protect children from harmful internet content. The base layer should be controlling DNS, something that is fairly simple to do for the …
As of this writing, Microsoft Family Safety, doesn’t offer much for iOS devices, but Microsoft still has a lot to offer families. Many, many households have a mix of device platforms. If your family has any …
I know that I’m not, but sometimes I feel like I am the lone voice out there trying to bring attention to the issue of protecting children online. In this episode of Speakeasy Security from ESET, …
CleanBrowsing was started by parents in the technology industry who appreciated what OpenDNS was doing for families but saw the need for some additional features. This quote from their website perfectly describes the problems with so …
I have always recommended DNS control at the router as a first layer of parental control protection in the home. See previous post about Home Network Filtering. DNS control is also good for individual devices when …
Regardless of what games, apps, or social media you allow your kids/teens to have, too much of anything can have negative effects. Some of these negative effects can be depression and isolation which can have tragic …
On May 8th Net Nanny® rebranded their Zift mobile protection application to Net Nanny® 10. That was probably a good branding decision since Net Nanny® has been a leader in this space for years and the …
Protecting children from online threats isn’t easy, but parents often make it more difficult that it needs to be. Implementing safe technology in your home starts with making safe technology the number one priority for all …
The router is the part of the home network that all other devices go through to connect to the internet. Typically it is connected to either a cable modem or DSL modem connected to your internet …
Parents need to understand that when we put technology into our kids’ hands we also need to accept responsibility for protecting them and that there might be costs associated with that. However, some of the best …