Therehas been an increacing number of stories in the press about Cyber Crime. Jaguar Landrover, Bank outages, Heathrow hacks and M&S have all been in the press. Add to this the inmcreasing number of schools and even social media platforms that have been attacked and you can well imaging the concern is growing in the general population.
The article reports that, over a third of UK adults don’t know what to do after a cyber hack with fear gripping over half and most adults in the UK feel that their data is not safe (three in four). Whilst this refers to adults and not children there are a number of ways this will almost cenrtainly have an impact on children. If parents feel as they do they will almost certainly be concerned about other family members. Will their reaction be to ban mobile phones until they regard the children to be old enough. Could they lock down devices so tightly that the wealth of valuable material that is available online will put some at a disadvantage.
Our approach is to monitor the child's online activity , not in the sense of Big Brother, but as a partner travelling along, what used to be called the super highway, together.
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