Lynette Owens
Lynette Owens is the Founder and Global Director of Trend Micro’s Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. With 20+ years in the tech industry, Lynette speaks and blogs regularly on how to help kids become great digital citizens. She works with communities and 1:1 school districts across the U.S. and around the world to support digital literacy and citizenship education. She is a board member of the National Association of Media Literacy Education and serves on the advisory boards of INHOPE and U.S. Safer Internet Day, and on the national advisor council of Media Literacy Now. Follow her on Twitter @lynettetowens
Don’t Let Your New Fridge Take Down the Internet
In October, the U.S. fell victim to a massive cyberattack that caused some of your favorite websites like Amazon and Netflix to be inaccessible. This attack, called a denial-of-ser ...
4 Ways to Protect Your Kids from Cybercriminals
Kids know the internet as a wonder-filled place where their cyberspace adventures are only limited by imagination. But the Internet does have its faults. Cybercriminals, malware vi ...
Age Verification in the Digital Age
In today’s Digital Age, children are exposed to an unending stream of social networks, apps, and games –some are designed for all ages, but many are not. Age verification is su ...
Raising Responsible Digital Citizens
Today, there are over 37 million kids ages 3-17 that have access to the internet in the U.S. This reality has been ushered in as internet-connected devices become more plentiful an ...