Online Programs on Family Cybersecurity

Foundational — Start Here

Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The starting point for most families. Covers the practical fundamentals every parent benefits from: setting up a secure home network, recognising phishing and scam patterns, managing privacy settings across the apps your household actually uses, and keeping a sensible read on your family’s digital footprint.

The program also includes a section aimed at parents of teenagers — what conversations to have, when, and what concrete habits to scaffold so digital citizenship is something your kids practice instead of something they’re told about.

The Engagement & Attention Industry

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A background on the design principles behind today’s most engaging apps — variable rewards, infinite scroll, streaks, notifications, frictionless action — and why understanding those principles is foundational to a technology-forward approach to family cyber self-defense.

You will leave with a working mental model of how the attention economy is engineered, and a set of practical decisions you can make for your own household tonight.

Youth Cybercrime Recruitment Defenses

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A background on the tactics online criminals use to recruit teenagers and pre-teens: grooming patterns inside gaming platforms, social-media manipulation, and the role of encrypted-chat ecosystems.

Designed for parents and caregivers who want concrete signal-detection and conversation tools — not abstract advice. We cover what to watch for, when to escalate, and how to respond without breaking trust.

Generative AI

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

ChatGPT and its successors changed the threat surface for households overnight. This program covers what every family member is now sharing — sometimes unknowingly — when they paste into a chat, upload a homework draft, or ask an AI assistant to summarize.

We map the data flow plainly, name the practical risks, and walk through the steps a family can take this week to keep AI tools useful without making the household’s information part of someone else’s training set.