This title helps you protect your children from dangers that lurk on the Internet. It enables you to: learn to identify the real threats - be they pedophiles, cyber-stalkers, hackers, spyware, viruses, or adware - and formulate an effective protection plan; and 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 includes updated data and information. Get free eTrust EZ Antivirus Software for one year with purchase of this book.
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'Rather than offering a diatribe on the dangers of the Web, Johnson offers a practical, well-researched guide to help parents minimize the Web's potential drawbacks.' Publishers Weekly
'A very valuable resource for families wishing to educate their children towards a safer and responsible use of the Internet.' Nuria Quintana Compte, SafeBorders project (European Commission's Safer Internet Programme)
'An easy-to-follow, practical, and understandable guide for families to make their own and their children's Internet use a safer experience'. Invaluable and authoritative.' Bernadette McMenamin, National Director of Child Wise
'Simon Johnson's book has raised the bar regarding the importance of protecting our nation's most precious commodity .....your children! Parents and families need to know the benefits and the dangers they face in today's online world. Information is powerful and this book is a must read!' Teri L. Schroeder, CEO and Founder of I-SAFE America, Inc.
'This book solves many of the Internet's mysteries, helping parents build the confidence they need.' Senator Kate Lundy, Shadow Minister for the Arts, Sport and Information Technology, Australian Labor Party
About the Author
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).
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By "jfarney74"
Format:Paperback
This book gives a full explanation of the various threats which exist on the internet, and offers clear, well researched recommendations on how to make surfing safer for everyone.
I now feel a lot more comfortable with our kids using the internet for their homework, and e-mailing their friends.
I especially liked the reviews of the different software offering. It's often hard to know if something's any good until it's too late. The author has done the hard work in comparing the tools, and leaves the reader to make a well informed choice on which products suit them best.
Highly recommended for concerned Internet users of all levels of experience, even those without kids.
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
4.7 out of 5 stars
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good book for parents and other adults too!
10 Dec 2004
By Teknion Tracker
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Simon Johnson has done a very good job at giving an overall view of the danger that children (and adults too) face using the Internet. Thankfully he does not only show the dangers, but he gives a lot of ideas on what as a parent you should do to protect children. Simon reviews a lot of software, shows the flaws and benefits of the many items out there that we may want to use and or avoid.
Simon keeps the writing simple and basic. It's not so high tech that he talks over your head, and he still gets his point across.
I certainly would say this is a good book for getting ideas on protecting your children on the net.
With this book, Simon has continued the good work he has done on his own web site at http://keepyourkidssafe.com/. I recognize his name as one of the good influences of the Internet.
Simon keeps the writing simple and basic. It's not so high tech that he talks over your head, and he still gets his point across.
I certainly would say this is a good book for getting ideas on protecting your children on the net.
With this book, Simon has continued the good work he has done on his own web site at http://keepyourkidssafe.com/. I recognize his name as one of the good influences of the Internet.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great resource for parents
10 Dec 2004
By P. M. Worthy
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
Simon Johnson picked an opportune time to launch his book. The arrests of the paedophiles and Current Affairs Programs segments on chat rooms predators underline the dangers that can exist on the Internet. The book or rather guide certainly covers the risks to our Kids and pulls no punches. It is an excellent resource for any parent concerned with their child's assess to the Internet. It has all the helpful hints on protecting children from the risks.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Resource for Parents
31 May 2006
By Rebecca of Amazon
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
"I didn't write this book to scare you. Nor did I write it to persuade you not to let your child use the Internet. The Internet benefits your child too much to warrant it being banned. I wrote this book to arm you with the knowledge and tools you can use to ensure, as much as possible, that your child has a positive Internet experience..." ~Simon Johnson
Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet is a book dedicated to keeping your family safe from a variety of predatory elements lurking online. Everything from viruses to cyber-bullies. As an adult you have no doubt met many of these issues when you were first online and through experience you have been able to work through the chaos to get to the helpful sites and information.
Children don't have the time to deal with these issues (childhood is already stressful enough) and so parents have to protect them by putting in protective computer elements like firewalls and filtering software. Issues addressed:
What is the Internet?
How is the Internet Regulated?
What are the threats and how serious are they?
How to Avoid and Reduce the Risks...
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
Spyware and Adware
Lists of common acronyms and emoticons are interesting; parents can learn about blogs, viruses attached to your child's e-mail and search engine filtering. Comparisons of programs like Net Nanny and McAfee are helpful for everyone. Simon Johnson has written a very helpful book to protect your entire family against threats lurking online.
~The Rebecca Review
Keep Your Kids Safe on the Internet is a book dedicated to keeping your family safe from a variety of predatory elements lurking online. Everything from viruses to cyber-bullies. As an adult you have no doubt met many of these issues when you were first online and through experience you have been able to work through the chaos to get to the helpful sites and information.
Children don't have the time to deal with these issues (childhood is already stressful enough) and so parents have to protect them by putting in protective computer elements like firewalls and filtering software. Issues addressed:
What is the Internet?
How is the Internet Regulated?
What are the threats and how serious are they?
How to Avoid and Reduce the Risks...
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
Spyware and Adware
Lists of common acronyms and emoticons are interesting; parents can learn about blogs, viruses attached to your child's e-mail and search engine filtering. Comparisons of programs like Net Nanny and McAfee are helpful for everyone. Simon Johnson has written a very helpful book to protect your entire family against threats lurking online.
~The Rebecca Review
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