CIPA Compliance- What does it mean?

It is pleasant to occasionally find your children's old toys in a dusty box. Look through albums with pictures, run your finger along the spines of reading books.

Now everything has changed. Children do not break toys; do not ask their parents to buy another box of pencils. All this is now replaced by computers and internet. The yards are empty - the children chatting in chat rooms, playing online games. The parent can breathe easy, the child is always at home, sitting on the Internet, and you cannot think about broken knees, torn pants and other concerns of the yard childhood.

But is it worth trusting this security? And who will protect the child from aggression in the network, from pornography and communication with potentially dangerous interlocutors? Parental control and a Managed Network by Managed Security Services can ensure it.

Thousands of developers in each country offer their child protection options on the Internet. The unspoken leader in this area is the United States. USA set up CIPA Compliance Law to protect against unwanted content on US sites designed for children.

The states did not just develop a number of techniques that restrict children's sites from the rest of the network - they passed a separate law dedicated only to protecting children on the Internet. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) contains the necessary instructions for protecting children from unwanted information. Schools, according to this act, must establish on each of the computers the so-called “Parental Control” - a program that blocks links with inappropriate content and profanity. Of course, not everything is as perfect as it may seem. If this program is not updated every month, the protection functions are weakened. And adolescents have learned to circumvent the ban on “strong words”-it is enough to replace them with the consonant, but quite worthy phrases. Managed Security Services are very careful in this regard.

Virtually every site is for children, whether it’s a children's social network or a scientific portal, having a panel with the laws of the site - 'legal stuff' or 'privacy'. Often, the site administration uses universal methods of Managed Network Services that protect the child from unwanted acquaintances or information.

Most of the popular children portal with educational games and chat has above panel containing two sections: for children and adults. Adults are warned that the site is constantly updating and “cleansing” the content, but occasionally the child may encounter information that traumatizes the child’s psyche. In the section for children, the administration asks the children not to come into contact with strangers in the chat and not to follow external links. Better to ask parents first.

The famous children's social network “Club Penguin” has great popularity among junior high school students from all over the world, probably caught up with Facebook. Brightly decorated, with a variety of games, themed holidays, and competitions - it captures attention immediately. Your child creates himself a penguin and through this way he meets other penguins. It does not matter that in Iraq they did not hear about penguins - the main thing is that a child can chat with peers from all over the world. The owner of the piggy community is Disney Studio, so the level of security is quite large.

Recall the sites for fans. Let's say Pottermore.com is a site for fans of movies and books about Harry Potter. Its main advantage is that the children are given nicknames that carry no information and user. Surely on this site children are called names from books - it remains only to hope that girls there are not called Hagrid, even if by chance. Another advantage of the site- if the strict mother decides that the child talks too much about the properties of magic wands, she can always ask the site administration to block the account.

The above methods are not unique, moreover, they are found not only on sites for American children. Nonetheless, they are the pillar of the safe internet space for children. You can come up with more rules, develop more methods. But it is better not to forget about these. Modern children already live in two worlds - the real and the virtual. Good or bad - to decide the parent. A child can be interesting both on the Internet and in the real world. The main thing is that here and there it is safe.    

Published By: IT Support Nottingham