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SI Day: Facebook Releases Safety Tips for Teens, Parents
With Safer Internet (SI) Day coming up on the 9th of February, Antigone Davis, Facebook’s head of Global Safety, has some tips to help parents and teenagers take more control over their security and privacy, and keep children safer online.
This year’s theme is “Play Your Part for a Better Internet”. Because whether your child is creating an online account for the very first time or you have a teen browsing the Internet with little supervision, every parent has a role in making the Internet a safer place for all.
These best practices make that responsibility a bit more manageable, and can be presented as “resolutions” every parent should make in 2016, or as simple tips and tricks for keeping your kids safer online.
Facebook 3 Tips For Teens:
1) Think before you post. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment and write or do something that may seem funny at the time.
But remember, what you say can really hurt someone, or come back to haunt you.
We’ve found it helpful to think about these questions before posting: Is this how I want people to see me?
Could somebody use this to hurt me or my reputation? Would I be upset if they shared it with others? What’s the worst thing that could happen if I shared this?
Also remember that any information you post – whether in a comment, a note, or a video chat – might be shared in ways that you didn’t intend.
Before you post, ask yourself: Would I be OK if this content was shared widely at school or with my future employer?
Of course, we all make mistakes. If you find yourself wishing you hadn’t said or done something, it’s never too late to apologize.
2) Know who you are communicating with. On Facebook, every time you share something – a post, a photo or a link – you choose exactly who can see it.
You also choose your friends on Facebook and for this reason, it\’s important to only accept friend requests from people you know.
If you ever receive hurtful or abusive messages or posts on your profile, you have options. Depending on how serious the situation is, you can ignore it, ask the person to stop, unfriend or block the person, or tell your parents, a teacher, a counsellor, or another adult you trust. Everyone deserves to be treated with respect.
3) Play your part. On Facebook, you can always report abusive content—whether it’s on your profile page, or someone else’s.
Everyone who uses Facebook agrees to abide by our Community Standards, which define what kind of posts are welcome and aren’t welcome.
For example, hate speech, graphic violence and bullying are not allowed on Facebook and we remove this type of content when it is reported.
You can also report inappropriate Pages, Groups, Events and fake or impostor profiles. (Remember that reporting is confidential, so no one will know who made the report.)
This list is just a start. Facebook is a community, but a community only works well if it has certain rules and resources to ensure people feel safe.
That’s why we are so dedicated to providing the Facebook community with the tools needed to feel safe and supported.
But a community also requires people to take care of it and act responsibly.
This month, take some time to think about the ways you can be a better neighbour on Facebook.
5 Tips For Parents:
1) Stick with what works. Typically, you can employ the same parenting style for your kid’s online activities as you do offline.
If you find your child responds best to a negotiated agreement, create a contract that you can both sign.
Or, maybe your child just needs to know the basic rules. In that case, you can establish them early when you first buy a mobile device for him or her.
2) The old adage your kids will “do as you do, not as you say,” is as true online as it is offline. Try to be a good role model.
If you set time restrictions on when your child can use social media or be online (i.e., no texting after 10:00 pm), modelling that same behaviour makes a big difference.
If you want your child to be civil online, model civility and respect in your texts to him or her.
3) Engage early and establish norms. Data suggests parents should engage online with their children as soon as they are on social media, by friending them as soon as they join Facebook or following them on Instagram when they sign up.
It gets harder to do so if you wait. While this is not surprising, it is worth noting that just as you lay the foundation for dialogue and conversation offline with your children early, you have to lay that foundation early online.
Even before they are on social media, talk to them about technology as a whole. It can help lay the groundwork for future conversations.
4) Seize key moments. There are many natural times to have these conversations: when they get their first mobile phone (it’s a good time to establish ground rules), when your child turns 13 and is old enough to join Facebook, Instagram and other social media services, or when your child gets a driver’s license (it\’s a good times to discuss the importance of not texting and driving).
5) Ask your children to teach you. Not on Instagram? Maybe you\’re interested in trying a streaming music service?
If your children are already familiar with these services, they can be an excellent resource.
The conversation can also serve as an opportunity to talk about issues of safety, privacy and security.
For example, maybe you can ask them questions about privacy settings as you set up your own Facebook account.
And, as most parents know all too well, your child will likely appreciate the opportunity to teach you.
Worried by the dwindling fortune of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) business in the country, Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee has identified the impediments to its growth and moves to remove them to ensure that the country takes a pride place in the sector.
Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the committee, said at a workshop for journalist in Lagos on Thursday that his committee identified tax structure in the country which hinders international organizations from hiring Nigerians living in the country to work for them.
“Our existing tax structure demands that any company outside of Nigeria that hires Nigerians living in the country to work remotely will be expected to pay tax on the company’s income as well as on the income of the Nigerian working for the company.
“This tax structure has pushed overseas companies away from Nigeria to countries such as India and Philippines that their BPO sector have grown exponentially. With the removal of tax on the company’s income, we have created a level playing ground for BPO business to flourish in the country,” he said.
It would be recalled that Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) had put the worth of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) ecosystem in the country at $285.8Million.
According to Inuwa, “today, Nigeria Outsourcing sector worth $285.8M employing 16,540 Nigerians mostly living in Nigeria and working for companies outside Nigeria.
“We started in 2020 with a strategy and engaged with the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to develop the strategy and some of them started operations in the mid of 2020 and we want to expand this because we believe the sector will create more jobs than any other sector in Nigeria”.
Oyedele, added that his committee has proposed a single digit number of 8 taxes to be collected by all the tiers of governments in the country.
“One of the critical challenges facing the tax system in Nigeria is the shockingly high level of non-compliance as a result of low tax morale. Tax Morale is the willingness to comply with taxes and the belief that tax evasion is wrong,” he noted.
He said the principle behind these is to do away with nuisance taxes with very low revenue yield, high cost of collection and ultimate burden on the poor and small businesses.
“Focus on high revenue yielding taxes, that are broad-based and relatively ease to collect. Merge taxes and levies that are imposed on the same or substantially similar tax base. Institutionalize the tax harmonization reform to ensure sustainability,” he stated.
According to him, “the outcomes expected include; Eliminate informal & implicit taxes, harmonise tax administration, rationalize tax incentives, leverage technology and big data, modernise customs administration, simplify compliance, optimise resources and government assets.
Budget better – Restructure the budget (classify items under infrastructure; human capital investment; personnel cost, headcount & productivity; administrative overheads; debt service & sinking funds), fully implemented zero based budgeting, and introduce long term appropriation.
Spend better – Tackle systemic corruption, prioritise spending on basic needs to address multidimensional poverty, restrict borrowing to productive spending and self-financing projects, leverage PPP and equity financing for viable projects, enhance public procurement effectiveness.
Manage better – Leverage technology for revenue, debt, and expenditure management. Adhere to fiscal rules and benchmark with strict penalties for violations. Establish a national fiscal risk framework and processes to prevent, detect, and correct financial infractions.
Report better – Harmonise and standardise reporting, provide transparent and timely information, enhance audit & internal control, administer consequences.
The eight proposed taxes are; Income Tax; Value Added Tax; Property tax; Customs duties; Excise tax; Stamp duties; Special levy and Harmonised levy.
Nigeria Data Protection Commission (NDPC) has said it is investigating 40 banks, insurance companies, stock brokers and other operators in the financial sector over customers’ data breach.
Dr Vincent Olatunji, national commissioner and CEO, who disclosed this at a breakfast meeting with Data Protection Compliance Organisations (DPCOs) in Lagos, said the commission would sanction the erring financial sector operators if found guilty.
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Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) mandates FG to collect 2% of annual turnover of any organisation guilty of data breach.
“We have beamed our search light on 40 players in the financial sector. We have written to them to explain why they have not been complying with data regulations and we may sanction them if they ‘re found guilty”, Dr Olatunji said.
The NDPC boss said the erring companies had been given 21 days to answer why they should not be sanctioned.
He also disclosed that licences of some inactive DPCOs would be revoked by year end while some new ones would be licensed.
He disclosed that there are over 500,000 data processors organisations in Nigeria, adding that all of them would be monitored on how they handle data of Nigerians.
While warning companies and government agencies collecting data of Nigerians in their course of operations against mishandling those data, he also assured Nigerians of adequate data protection.
He said though the commission was not afraid of lawsuits, it would not in any way trample on the rights of any organisation.
Sophos, a global leader of innovative security solutions that defeat cyberattacks, has released its inaugural “MSP Perspectives 2024” survey report, which found that the biggest day-to-day challenge facing Managed Service Providers (MSP) is keeping up with the latest cybersecurity solutions/technologies, cited by 39% of the MSPs surveyed.
Alongside this, MSPs indicated that hiring new cybersecurity analysts to keep up with customer growth and keep pace with the latest cyberthreats were also top challenges.
The survey also reveals that MSPs perceive the shortage of in-house cybersecurity skills to be the single biggest cybersecurity risk to both their own business and their clients’ organizations.
MSPs also perceive stolen access data and credentials and unpatched vulnerabilities to be amongst the biggest security risks to their customers.
The latest State of Ransomware 2024 report found that nearly a third (29%) of ransomware attacks started with compromised credentials, showing the prevalence of this entry vector.
“The speed of innovation across the cybersecurity battleground means it’s harder than ever for MSPs to keep up with threats and the cyber controls designed to stop them.
“When you couple this with a global skills shortage, which has made it infinitely more difficult for many MSPs to attract and retain cybersecurity analyst resources, its unsurprising that MSPs feel unable to keep pace with the changing threat landscape,” said Scott Barlow vice president of MSP at Sophos.
“This is all compounded by the need for 24×7 coverage as indicated in our 2023 Active Adversary report for Tech Leaders, which finds that 91% of ransomware attacks now happen out of business hours.”
In response to this complex threat landscape, there is growing demand for managed detection and response (MDR) services to provide always-on coverage. Currently 81% of MSPs offer an MDR service, and almost all (97%) MSPs that do not currently offer MDR plan to add it to their portfolio in the coming years.
Reflecting the shortage of in-house cybersecurity skills, 66% of MSPs use a third-party vendor to deliver the MDR service and a further 15% deliver jointly through their own SOC and a third-party vendor.
Topping the list of essential capabilities in a third-party MDR provider is the ability to provide a 24/7 incident response service.
MSPs are also streamlining their cybersecurity partnerships, working with a small number of vendors.
The study revealed that over half (53%) of MSPs work with just one or two cybersecurity vendors, rising to 83% that use between one and five.
Reflecting the effort and overhead of running multiple platforms, MSPs estimate that they could cut their day-to-day management time by 48% if they could manage all their cybersecurity tools from a single platform.
Other interesting findings from the report include:
· 99% of MSPs report an increase in demand for cyber insurance-related support, with the most common requests including clients wanting to implement an MDR service to improve their insurability (47%) or to receive help completing their insurance application (45%).
· MSPs want flexibility from their MDR provider, with 71% saying it is “essential or very important” that the vendor can use telemetry from their existing security tools for threat detection and response.
· MSPs in the U.S. lead the way in MDR service provision with almost all (94%) already offering MDR, compared to 70% in Germany, 62% in the U.K., and 58% in Australia.
“While MSPs have a huge job to do in protecting their customers against fast moving adversaries, there’s tremendous opportunity to grow their business and profitability if they can find the right security set up.
“The data shows that MSPs are strengthening their proposition and reducing overheads by amalgamating the platforms they use and engaging with third-party MDR vendors to expand their service offerings.
“As they look to build their security offering of the future, they should prioritize vendors that can offer a complete portfolio of industry-best, fully managed security services and solutions,” continued Barlow.
Data for the MSP Perspectives 2024 report comes from a vendor-agnostic survey of 350 MSPs across the U.S. (200), U.K. (50), Germany (50) and Australia (50). The survey was commissioned by Sophos and conducted by research house Vanson Bourne in March 2024.
Read the MSP Perspectives 2024 report for global findings and data by sector on Sophos.com.
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