Cybersecurity training kids can understand
KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform is offering an interactive, no-cost, children’s cybersecurity activity kit to the public. A workbook, poster and video module available to help families teach children how to protect themselves from online dangers
The activity kit consists of two workbooks with puzzles and games, a poster and a video module featuring KnowBe4’s security awareness hero Captain Awareness.
The workbook also includes a cyber hero pledge consisting of helpful tips to help children stay safe online, along with a family agreement that parents can review with their children to set guidelines for using online devices.
Concrete tools
With this activity kit, parents, teachers and other guardians have some concrete tools to help teach their children about online safety and security in a fun and engaging way. By offering these tools at no-cost, we hope to open the dialogue between children and their parents about the real threats that exist online today. Protecting our most vulnerable population from the online dangers that are out there is a top priority.
Here is the kit, or for those who like full disclosure in links: https://www.knowbe4.com/cybersecurity-activity-kit
For parents too
KnowBe4 also released a homecourse for parents that want to sit down with their kids and step together through interactive modules which teach kids and parents how to stay safe online. It’s an hour’s worth of training broken down in 8 modules that parents told us were the things that kept them awake at night:
- Passwords
- Online Banking Security
- Keeping Your Identity Safe
- Avoiding Malware
- Keeping Personal Information Confidential
- Protecting Children Online
- Securing Your Home Network
- Email & Attachments Safety
Here is the link. https://www.knowbe4.com/homecourse The password has been kept easy by design: homecourse
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Cyber Safety Net is a KnowBe4 partner. Reposted with permission from https://blog.knowbe4.com/new-knowbe4-offers-no-cost-childrens-interactive-cybersecurity-activity-kit. Cyber Safety Net – Keeping you safe online. See https://cybersafetynet.net/cyber-security-awareness-training/ to train and strengthen your human firewall. See https://youtu.be/UFpFesrcnvY and https://www.knowbe4.com/security-awareness-training-features/ to learn more.