The Internet has become a necessity for modern life for all family members, young and old. However, despite its many benefits, it poses numerous cyber risks that threaten the digital safety of families. This requires raising awareness of the principles and foundations of family cybersecurity and safely interacting with technology and the Internet to ensure a balance between achieving benefits and ensuring the security of personal data and the digital safety of all family members.
The National Initiative for Digital Safety has focused on educating all family members about the principles and foundations of cybersecurity, the various threats that may threaten their digital safety via the Internet and social media, and the important role that the family plays in supporting cybersecurity for children - especially young people - and protecting them from cybercrimes, in addition to guiding them on how to deal technically with the Internet and social media To ensure awareness of the most prominent threats that family members may face and how to deal with them safely, thus consolidating the principle of digital safety among these groups.
In the same context, the Digital Safety Risks Guide focuses on developing parents' security culture around digital safety procedures with the aim of transferring this security culture to their children, benefiting from parental services and electronic filters in various applications, preventing children from dealing with strangers on the Internet, containing children emotionally and strengthening family ties with them, and ensuring that they are followed up and monitored, and constantly discussing with them about digital safety and safe use of the Internet. While electronic gaming applications address the principles of family cybersecurity, by introducing important basic concepts and terms, such as: phishing and social engineering, in attractive entertainment templates.
The read and visual awareness content also addresses many important topics related to digital safety for the family, such as: safe browsing of websites and social media platforms, following correct behavior in cases of cyber breaches or hacking, the most important recommended settings for maximum protection of phones and tablets, the foundations of safe dealing with smart devices, digital safety precautions, and means of reporting cybercrimes, in a way that establishes the principles of protection
