CyberPatrol Offers Free Online Safety Videos

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By SLJ Staff -- School Library Journal, 10/8/2008 2:05:00 PM

As part of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, CyberPatrol has unveiled a series of family-oriented online safety videos that provide parents, educators, and others with easy to understand and useful advice on how to protect children from predators, cyberbullies, inappropriate material, and other online threats.

The series features Internet safety expert Linda Criddle, president of Look Both Ways, a company that consults with state and national governments, law enforcement agencies, and other organizations on online safety. Criddle also operates an Internet safety Web site and is the author of the award-winning book Look Both Ways: Help Protect Your Family on the Internet (Microsoft Press, 2006).

CyberPatrol’s online safety videos for the month of October include: Discussing Internet Safety Guidelines in a Positive and Collaborative Way; Exposing Private Information—Things You Can Do To Be Safer; Careful Where You Click—Family Safety Online; and  Protecting Kids on Social Networks. CyberPatrol produces Web- and content-filtering software and services.

Spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the National Cyber Security Alliance, National Cyber Security Awareness Month takes place every October to increase awareness and prevention of online security problems. Thousands of businesses, community groups, and educators participate in the annual effort to raise awareness of online threats and how to protect against them.

“The new Online Safety Video Series is one powerful tool,” says John Sancin, president and COO of CyberPatrol. “Working in combination, technology, education, and the right public policy can make the online experience safer for everyone.”