Understanding Cyber Safety and Security of Children

This book is set in the context of existing and future online threats that make children vulnerable. It explores the approaches used to assess the training needs and map out strategies to enhance their awareness and knowledge of cyber safety and security.  This book records the critical roles that stakeholders like parents, guardians and school administrators play in keeping children safe. It captures the current level of knowledge about cyber safety and security from an extensive survey-based analysis.
This book suggests parents and guardians, too, need to be educated on the potential pitfalls and dangers to ensure that their kids are appropriately advised, protected, and safeguarded from the ill effects of technology. It investigates how parents and guardians ideate about cybercrime and cyberspace and how their perception of the impending dangers are passed on to their children.  This book explores the information asymmetry between parents and children, especially in setting priorities for the practices they adopt in cyberspace. 
This book also captures the general behaviour of teachers and school authorities towards the usage of the internet and safe online practices that they tend to follow. It investigates and maps the approaches and endeavours to measure their current level of awareness and knowledge vis-à-vis the steps taken to enhance and expand their contribution towards a safe online environment for children. 
In a nutshell, this book measures perceived knowledge, awareness level, and the importance of cyber safety and security measures that all stakeholders should undertake. Based on the findings of an empirical study alongside the use of the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and the technology acceptance model (TAM), this book lays down the necessary framework to be implemented to facilitate a safe and secure cyberspace for children. It enlists policy guidelines, recommendations and best practices that are crucial for administrators and authorities to follow.