Keeping Your Kids Safe on the Internet

Simon Johnson

320 pages, parution le 23/09/2004

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Résumé

Protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. Learn to identify the real threats--be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware--and formulate an effective protection plan. Choose the best software for your needs and your budget from the book's independent review of firewalls, web filters, anti-virus products, and more. Plus, a companion Web site hosted by the author will update data and threats.

Extensive screenshots and graphics included to show parents exactly what is being discussed ' this helps parents recognize what malicious emails look like.
Text is written by a parent for other parents and avoids the use of jargon and uses real-world examples and concepts that parents can relate to.
Written for a global audience and shows the worldwide proliferation of safety issues for children and how to solve for them.
Reviews 27 different types of software (firewalls, web filtering, email filtering, antivirus and malicious code detection) to provide parents with choices appropriate to their needs, experience and budget.
Companion website created and hosted by the author that will include additional statistics, known threats/schemes against children, links to book reviews, contests for book giveaways, etc.

L'auteur - Simon Johnson

Simon Johnson (Victoria, Australia) has 10 years experience as an IT security professional with a number of organizations and government departments. He co-founded and managed Shake Communications in 1997, an IT security business. In 1998 he co-founded SecuritySearch.Net, which at the time, was the largest IT security portal on the Internet. SecuritySearch.Net received more than 155,000 page views per month and sent free security newsletters to more than 16,000 subscribers worldwide, per week. The site was sold in 2002 to US security firm GFI. The newsletter subscription arm of the business was sold to US security firm, Relevant Technologies. Johnson has been interviewed in television and print media on IT Security related topics, including Business 2.0, Computerworld, Corporate Risk, CNET News.com, Internetnews.com, Newswire, SBS World News, TechWeb, The Age, Wired Magazine and ZDNet News. He’s written content for Total Surveillance by John Parker (Piatkas Publishing UK, 2000) and reviewed the business and e-commerce chapters in the book, Internet and World Wide Web by Deitel (Prentice Hall, 2002).

Sommaire

Part I: Real Threats to Your Children on the Internet and What You Can Do about Them
- What Is the Internet?
- What Are the Threats to Your Children and How Serious Are They?
- How to Avoid and Reduce the Risks to Your Kids on the Internet
Part II: The Best (Not Necessarily the Most Expensive) Software to Protect Your Kids
- Content-Filtering Software
- Using Filtering Software to Keep Out the Junk Mail
- Internet Firewall Software
- Antivirus Software
- Malicious Software Detection
- Putting Your Defense into Place
- Appendix: Spyware and Adware

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Simon Johnson
Parution	23/09/2004
Nb. de pages	320
Format	18,5 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	550g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780072257410