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Just about everyone is online these days, including the vast majority of teens and a growing number of young children. Whether by using a smartphone, accessing the web, watching a video, texting or playing a game, chances are you’re “connected” whenever you’re using a digital device.

There are tremendous benefits to young people being online, but – for them and the rest of us – there are also some device and network security risks, both digital and social. The digital kind involves apps and software that jeopardize the security of devices and the data on them. The social kind, often referred to as “social engineering,” is when people are tricked into putting their privacy and security at risk.

Although there can never be a 100% guarantee of safety and security online or offline, there are things you and your kids can do that can greatly reduce the chances of something going wrong. The fact that there are risks is no reason to avoid using technology or to keep it away from your children. But it is important to think about what you and your kids can do to reduce risk and learn how to recover if something does go wrong. We all learn a whole lot from making mistakes and recovering from them.

Just as with everything else in life, we can’t eliminate every possible risk associated with technology, but by using common sense and taking reasonable precautions we can greatly reduce our risk. Security risks are a problem, but the benefits of today’s technology are life-changing.

This overview has been adapted from Connect Safely. To read more click on the button below – it is a great starting point!

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Alongside the videos coming up, we’ve selected a handful of useful links and websites that will help you to get to grips with this topic.

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