part 2 - young minds internet security awareness course

8/14/2019 Part 2 - Young Minds Internet Security Awareness Course

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Part 2 - Young Minds Internet Security

Awareness Course

Protecting YourKids

Presented by:


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2 Keeping Our Children Safe on the Internet

Protecting your children means taking action

Set and enforcerules to keep your children safe

Know whos on your childs buddy listDont talk to strangers still applies

Keep personal information private

Children must inform adults when approached by strangers online

Report strangers who solicit meetings with any child

Monitor what your children are doing on the Internet

Dont allow children to have a computer in theirbedroom or a private area

Computer screens visible to all


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False sense of security

It cant happen to my family We have the computer in a high-traffic area and check on the kids frequently

Parents of 14 year-old Cailey followed this approach but wereshocked when their daughter was molested by an online predatorwhom she had been chatting with for over 6 monthshow?

Cailey was going to bed early and getting up at 5 AM to chat withher online friend

Low-tech Tip #2:Plug your cable/DSL modeminto a common lamp timer;start power at earliest hourInternet is desired and power off

the modem after parents go to bed


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Low-tech monitoring


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Web browser history

What is it?!

The web browser history records every web site visited

YES! But parents and

children must agreethat this kind of secret-keeping is NOTacceptable

Can browser historiesor individual entriesbe deleted?

Low-tech Tip #3:CTRL + H shows historyfor either Internet Explorer

or Mozilla Firefox


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AutoComplete history

Useful for checking search engine history

AutoComplete enabledby default

This also can beerased, but parentsand children need toestablish ground rules

for clearing this data

Low-tech Tip #4:Go to Google or favoritesearch engine and clickon the search box; a listof all search terms will be

listed



Google SafeSearch

What can you doaboutweb searching?

Set to strict to reducebad search results

Strict

Moderate

None

Affects image

& web searches



Google SafeSearch (cont)

Low-tech Tip #5:Set your Google SafeSearchFiltering preference setting tostrict

and dont forget to Save


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Internet cookies (cont)

Internet cookies, like the browserhistory, reveal every web site visited

Cookies can be cleared,but this is often overlooked

Step #1:Start Search

Step #2:Type in cookie, then press

Step #3:Cookies areorganized byuser name;

double-click onthe folder to seethe cookies forthe desired user

Low-tech Tip #6:How to check those

cookies!


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Gmail bonus feature

All email can beforwarded toanother account

Settings

Forwarding& Pop

Low-tech Tip #7:Forward a copyincoming mail to

________and keep Gmails

copy in the inbox


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Another Gmail bonus feature

By default, allGmail chat sessionsare logged

Low-tech Tip #8:Click on Chatslink to review chatsessions; opensessions of

interest for review


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Advanced Monitoring


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Three strategies for monitoring

Host-based software

Network-based solution

Kiosk Internet station


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Host-based software monitoring

Examples

Net Nanny

CYBERsitter

CyberPatrol

Pros Easy to install

No extra hardware needed

Cons Need to go to each PC to check logs (?)

Easy to turn-off or bypass


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Network-based solution (web proxy server) How it works

User requests web page from proxy

Proxy gets the web page and sends to user

Web requests can be monitored, logged, or filtered

Pros

Central location for logs

Central filter adjustment

CNN.com

Web requestWeb request

DataData

User

Proxy

Cons

Extra hardware needed

Could be bypassed


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Example of a web proxy on a home network

Dansguardian on Ubuntu Linux

Live display of proxy requests

Display all images with driftnet


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Reviewing web proxy logs

All web activity can be logged and reviewed

Denied requests warrant particularattention


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DENIED webrequests


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Internet Kiosk with monitoring/filtering

Examples

Ubuntu Christian Edition

Futures Inc. YoungMinds

Pros

Difficult to bypass

Central monitoring available

Cons

Need extra piece of hardware

Limited functionality


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A protection framework Protect

Rules and guidelines

Filtering where available

Detect

Monitor activity (high-tech and low-tech)

Review logs / history files

Respond

Dont overreactsometimesits not as bad as it looks

Use your information toprevent something worse.


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On behalf of Futures Inc.,Thank you!

(410) 340-4033

(410) 489-7857www.futures-inc.com

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