Cyber threats are not just a business matter: families, schools, and entire communities are also affected. The risks you face often depend on your age and lifestyle. That's why the 'Secure the Generations Toolkit' provides practical advice for children, teenagers, parents, and seniors. Moreover, the toolkit shows how generations can help each other to be stronger against online attacks.
'With this special toolkit, we demonstrate that cybersecurity affects everyone or can affect everyone,' says Lance Spitzner, Senior Certified Instructor at SANS Institute. 'Attackers target age and life stage. That's why the "Secure the Generations Toolkit" provides a solution: it makes cybersecurity personal and understandable. Additionally, it helps not only to protect yourself but also your loved ones.'
The toolkit offers among other things:
- Insight into risks: everyone learns which online dangers correspond to their life stage (and what they can do about it);
- Stronger together: by supporting each other, cybersecurity becomes a shared responsibility;
- Immediately applicable: tips and advice that you can use right away to be safer online.
Spitzner adds: 'The toolkit is designed to be easily shared. Not only within your family but also with friends or at work. Whether you want to teach your children to recognize phishing, game more safely as a teenager, or protect your digital identity as a senior: the toolkit offers clear and reliable help.'
Cybersecurity demands more and more
Recently, cybercrime has been on the rise. This affects much larger organizations, as seen with many airports last week, but ordinary people are also increasingly unsafe. Spam is easier than ever to generate with AI and is not always easy to distinguish from 'real' emails. According to CBS, as many as 2.4 million Dutch people were affected by cybercrime in 2024. Enough reason to learn more about this. Fortunately, this entire month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
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Secure the Generations Toolkit can be downloaded for free here in the context of Cybersecurity Awareness Month.
