![]() If any of these selected people tries to contact the child, the parent receives a notification. The solution also lets parents select individual contacts in the settings, for example, suspicious friends. ![]() An additional option for Android-based devices is statistics on the contacts from whom your child receives phone calls and SMS messages (in order to not violate privacy, the text of the messages is not displayed). Such monitoring helps make it possible to promptly notice signs that the child has problems with peers. On their My Kaspersky account parents can view a summary of a child's activity on Facebook – changes in the number of friends and his public posts. Depending on parents’ wishes, potentially dangerous applications or pages can be blocked immediately, or the child can be warned that opening them is not recommended. Unwanted sites can also be excluded from search results provided by the popular search engines Google, Yandex, Bing, and Yahoo. To prevent a child from coming across something undesirable on the Internet, Safe Kids provides the ability to filter web sites by category, for example, to filter out pages with adult content, obscene language, or with information about drugs. The ability to restrict application usage by category is only available for Windows, Mac OS X and Android-based devices. Parents can also specify how much time a child can spend on a given application. games, online stores, entertainment, etc.). With Safe Kids, you can restrict the applications that a child can install or open, by both age and category (e.g. Applications may be potentially dangerous, for example, those containing scenes of violence. The time management feature can be configured to block the device when the time limit is exceeded (not available for iOS devices) or Safe Kids can inform your child that it is time for him to stop using the device without blocking access. Safe Kids gives parents the ability to specify limits on how long a device can be used or select specific hours on certain days of the week when the child is allowed to stay online. Children often lose track of time when playing on a device. Rules let parents monitor the amount of time a child uses devices, the applications he or she installs, the web pages he views, his location, and circle of contacts: Kaspersky Safe Kids is managed (including the creation of customized rules) via a My Kaspersky account. The solution is available for Windows, Mac, Android, and iOS. Using the solution only requires registering on the My Kaspersky portal, creating a profile for the child, and downloading the application for the required platform (or install it on the child’s device from the App Store). Kaspersky Safe Kids is a freemium product: most of the functionality is offered free of charge, but premium features are available for a fee. It gives parents the power to protect their kids in a smart way, without blocking their activities, and to maintain a dialog with them," said Ovanes Mikhaylov, Managing Director in the Middle East, Kaspersky Lab. Kaspersky Safe Kids allows kids to safely explore the cyberworld and expands the boundaries of parental care. We are happy to provide users in the region with a tool that helps prevent unpleasant consequences of a child’s use of Internet-connected devices, even if the child knows more about technology than their parents. ![]() ![]() For that reason, we are launching Kaspersky Safe Kids Solution and making it a key topic for consumer visitors to Kaspersky Lab's stand at the coming GITEX Technology Week 2015. "Digital security for kids is important both globally and in the Middle East. Kaspersky Lab experts are sure that protecting children online requires a comprehensive approach: parents should talk to children about online safety, teach them rules to stay safe, and of course use special technological solutions. The new multiplatform solution Kaspersky Safe Kids is designed to help parents learn more about their children and take care not only for their kids’ real lives but their virtual lives as well.Īccording to a survey carried out by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, 50% of parents in the UAE reported an increase in the number of online threats to their children, and 37% admitted being powerless to control what their child sees or does on the Internet. Today, when a significant part of a child's life is spent in unsupervised online activities, parents need to find additional methods of protection and education.
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