McAfee furthers family safety

By Staff Writer for Trellix
Johannesburg, 01 Jun 2009

McAfee says its new offering, McAfee Family Protection, will help families oversee their children's online interests, keeping them safe as they explore the Internet.

According to the company, parents will be able to set up individual online accounts for their children and tailor these accounts as they grow up and their needs change.

Various features will enable parents to approve a list of e-mail contacts, filter both categories of content as well as specific keywords, set up time limits, and monitor personal information that users post on social networking sites.

"The McAfee Family Protection product will advance the company's family safety strategy by providing families with software that is easy to use, and also comprehensive enough that parents can dial it up or down to match the needs of their youngest kids and their mature teens,” says Jayson O'Reilly, regional manager for Africa at McAfee.

“It will let moms and dads empower their kids and teens to enjoy the Internet, while providing the oversight they have been asking for," he adds.

McAfee has appointed Parry Aftab as its family Internet safety advisor to assist in developing the company's online family safety programs, as well as Tracy Mooney, a mother of three the company calls the industry's first “chief cyber security mom”.

“Both Aftab and Mooney will provide counsel to families via the McAfee Security Advice Centre, where consumers can find links to their blogs and educational videos,” states McAfee.

The company says the McAfee Family Protection product will be available later this quarter, as a standalone package enabled to work with McAfee's consumer security suites as well as security products from other vendors.