Cyber Security for online learning

Keeping your kids safe at home

George mallet./// first this evening.

Is your child learning from home?

Fort dodge community school district fell victim to a cyber attack a week ago that compromised its phones and internet.

Kimt news 3's annalise johnson is looking into how parents and kids can protect school networks from cyber criminals while learning from the kitchen table.

She joins us live.

Annalise?

If your kids are learning from home part time ?

"* or full time like the students here at john marshall high school... you play a role in protecting the school from a cyber attack.

Christopher gerg at madison?

"*based tetra defense tells me cyber criminals are looking for one thing... money.

Now that organizations including banks have stepped up their cyber security game ?*- attackers look for organizations with weaker defenses... such as schools.

Gerg warns that insecure remote systems and unpatched virtual private networks can make easy targets for cyber criminals... at home ?

"* you cn combat this by turning on auto updates for your operating system ?

"* using multifactor authentication for passwords ?*- and never opening an unfamiliar link or attachment with more students learning from devices at home... schools and teachers ?

"(and parents and kids have a role to play to protect against cyber attacks.

You want to protect yourself, you want to make sure you're not compromised, but if everyone's connecting with their computer to a school network, you're all sharing and you're all interrconnect ed.

You're not just protecting yourself, youre protecting the other students that are using the services some of this information might be more difficult for a really young student to comprehend.

Explain to young kids to never open an email that's not from their teacher without checking with a parent or teacher first.

Live in rochester annalise johnson kimt tetra defense also recommends using a robust antivirus or anti?

"*malware program at home.