When I was in middle school a friend of mine got a computer, soon after that he got this cool program called AOL and it instantly made his house the place to be. We could see all kinds of random things and wait for pictures to slowly load while praying that no one called the house. That was in the mid-90s \u2014 not the truly distant past.<\/p>\n
Since then, technology has come a long way and information that once took making sacrifices to the phone gods can now literally be transmitted to the palm of our hands in less than a second. The phone that fits in my pocket has undoubtedly more power than an army of the computers we huddled around in my friend\u2019s living room.<\/p>\n
While reminiscing on the good old days is always fun, I look at technology differently now that I am raising kids with technology that Orson Welles and George Lucas could only imagine. The problem now for parents is that there is no playbook when it comes to raising children in the connected age that we now live in.<\/p>\n
Sure our parents generation can offer some advice, but when it comes to something like Facebook or screen time, their opinion is not something rooted in their past experiences, but rather an opinion.<\/p>\n
So\u2026 what are we to do?<\/p>\n
A few weeks ago, I sat in a talk from\u00a0Lance Spitzner<\/a>\u00a0of the SANS Institute. During his chat, he harped upon one of the biggest challenges with today\u2019s parenting and the way that we typically think about security by stating that with parenting; we\u2019re protecting emotions and not data. For regular readers of this blog, you know that we\u2019re all about privacy and protecting data, but for any parent, we all know that emotions can sometimes skew how we interact (or overreact) when it comes to raising our kids.<\/p>\n 6 Things parents must stop doing right now on #SocialMedia<\/a>: \u2014 Kaspersky Lab ME (@KasperskyME) October 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
https:\/\/t.co\/hYy76cZsTq<\/a>#CyberBullying<\/a> #CyberSecurity<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/uMAwBtTI0c<\/a><\/p>\n