Safe Keeping Blog

Do you remember when schools banned pagers because of their link to drug dealers?   Some states responded by creating laws banning pagers and cell phones in schools.  However, systematically these laws are being relaxed and the decision for mobile device use is most often now left up to individual school districts. With the explosion…Continue Reading

Generation Safe™ Program Provides 20 Marin County Schools with Resources to Manage Cyber Incidences. iKeepSafe is pleased to announce the expansion of Generation Safe™ in Marin County. Thanks to a $25,000 grant from CVS Caremark, the program will be available to 20 middle and junior high school throughout Marin as well as the Marin County…Continue Reading

AG SCHEULLER RECEIVES A GIFT FROM 2nd GRADERS. ARLINGTON, VA—The Michigan Attorney General’s office is in its fifth year of outreach to students with its Cyber Safety Initiative—Michigan CSI—reaching almost 900,000 students statewide. Launched in September 2007, Michigan CSI is carried throughout the state by 25 trained presenters, most of whom are retired educators or…Continue Reading

This past Thursday, FBI Director Robert Mueller made a statement to the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which should not be taken lightly. He said, “The cyber threat will equal or surpass the threat from counter terrorism in the foreseeable future.” For those of you reading the news lately, foreseeable future could be…Continue Reading

Trend Micro launched their third annual “What’s Your Story?” contest last week. This international, user-generated video contest addresses three very timely issues of online safety and empowers youth to educate others about staying safe on the web. “What’s Your Story?” challenges anyone 13 and older to create and submit a video that educates their peers…Continue Reading