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Volume 2, Issue 8 - September, 2007 - © 2009 by Moose Logic, All Rights Reserved
Cover Story: School Is Starting: Do You Know Where Your Child Surfed Today?
Moose Logic Continues to Grow!
A Strategic Approach to Application Delivery
Don’t Forget Citrix iForum!
Moose Logic Coming Events
(Moose Views is a monthly newsletter prepared by Moose Logic to bring you information and tips on maintaining a trouble-free network)
School Is Starting: Do You Know Where Your Child Surfed Today?
With school back in session, thousands of kids will be surfing the Internet to conduct research, complete homework assignments, and connect with their new schoolmates.While chatting online with your friends about the latest school gossip or teenage crush seems innocent enough, the fact of the matter is that the Internet can expose a child to inappropriate material and unscrupulous individuals who are looking for any opportunity to exploit innocent children.
The Statistics of Online Abuse Towards Children Are Alarming
According to a survey conducted by NetAlert, nearly one child in every five has been approached online by a stranger, and forty-five percent (45%) have been exposed to material that is pornographic, sexually explicit, violent, racist, or that encourages them to participate in dangerous or illegal activities.
Social Networking Sites Like MySpace.com Are Among the Biggest Threats
A few months ago, North Carolina’s Attorney General Roy Cooper reported that over 29,000 registered sex offenders are using MySpace.com to look for underage victims based on the web site’s own estimates. That number was four times greater than the company’s previous reports. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal estimated in May that at least 5,000 sex offenders were registered for MySpace using false identities.
Blumenthal and Cooper have been the most active attorney generals in linking MySpace and sexual predation.
Horrifying True Stories Prove This is Not an Urban Legend
What’s even more alarming are the true-life horror stories of missing or victimized kids who met their predator online.
In New Jersey, Majalie Cajuste is grieving the murder of her 14-year old daughter Judy who met a man in his 20s through MySpace.com.
In California, friends are mourning 15-year-old Kayla Reed who was active on MySpace until the day she was found murdered.
The Center for Missing and Exploited Children reported more than 2,600 incidents last year of adults using the Internet to entice children. That is why North Carolina’s Attorney General is proposing stronger legislation to ban registered sex offenders from using social networking sites and strengthening other anti-child pornography and criminal penalties for Internet solicitation of minors and children for sex.
Last year, North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation arrested a police officer for the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl he lured using MySpace, Cooper's office said.
But MySpace Isn’t The Only Threat
According to Highlights of the Youth Internet Safety Survey conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice, one in five children received unwanted sexual solicitations online. There are a growing number of pedophiles using the Internet to gain a child’s confidence and arrange face-to-face meetings.
These cyber criminals trap children by using spam e-mails, online messaging, children’s chat rooms, and misleading domain names. If your child is using the Internet, you must take measures to educate and protect them from these dangers.
As part of our back-to-school newsletter edition, I’ve outlined 3 things you should be doing now to keep your kids safe online.
3 Things You Can Do Right Now To Protect Your Children Online
- Install web and e-mail filtering software to prevent your children from viewing inappropriate material. We recommend using www.bsafeonline.com. Not only will this prevent your children from visiting inappropriate web sites, but it will also stop inappropriate spam.
- Talk to your kids about online safety and proper Internet usage. Set limits and guidelines about when they can go online, what they can do, and how long they are allowed to be online. Explain why it is dangerous for them to “chat” with strangers online or download suspicious looking files.
- Give your children specific online guidelines or rules to follow when using the Internet. It’s not enough to warn them about potential risks; pedophiles know how to cloak their identity and gain a child’s confidence to arrange face-to-face meetings.
- I will not give out personal information such as my address, telephone number, parents’ work addresses, or our e-mail address to anyone online.
- I will tell my parents right away if I see a web site, e-mail, or message that makes me feel uncomfortable.
- I will never send my picture to anyone online or upload my picture to any web site without my parent’s knowledge and permission.
- I will never agree to meet someone face-to-face whom I met online without my parents’ knowledge and permission.
- I will not respond to any messages that are mean or that make me feel uncomfortable in any way. If I get a message like that, I will tell my parents right away so that they can contact the online service.
- I will never give my parents’ financial information to anyone, especially their credit card information, bank account information, or social security number.
If you want more information on how to keep your children safe online or to report illegal, violent, or explicit acts towards children, go to www.cybertipline.com.
This site is run by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and is a great resource for parents, teachers, and guardians.
Moose Logic Continues to Grow!
Moose Logic is pleased to announce the addition of Keith Caravelli to our engineering staff. Keith is one of the few individuals in the Northwest who is certified on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. If you’re looking for assistance getting that SharePoint site up and running, give us a call!We’re also delighted to welcome Garry Corbin back to the Moose Logic sales team. Garry was one of our Account Managers in the mid-1990s, and left to pursue a path that took him to Cisco, Qwest, and, most recently, Verizon. It’s great to have him back, particularly given the experience he brings with him.
A Strategic Approach to Application Delivery
I’ve been promising to get back to my “Citrix Corner” series of articles, which is my attempt to help our readers understand that (1) it isn’t just about MetaFrame anymore (in fact, the term “MetaFrame” has been dropped in favor of “Presentation Server”), and (2) there actually is a strategy behind all of the acquisitions and new product announcements that we’ve seen over the last few years. But first, I’d like to refresh the reader’s memory on this thing we’re calling “Application Delivery Infrastructure.”
“Application Delivery Infrastructure” refers to the distributed infrastructure components companies deploy along the line-of-sight between datacenters and end users to ensure the successful, reliable delivery of any application to any user in any location. Today, organizations rely on a wide range of applications to run their businesses. As trends such as user mobility, offshoring, e-commerce, and datacenter consolidation increase the distance and complexity between users and applications, companies are constantly seeking ways to ensure the best performance, security, and availability for end users while reducing overall delivery costs for IT.
Most companies have dozens, often hundreds—sometimes thousands of applications that they need to deliver to a wide range of users, from task workers such as customer call center representatives with simple needs and access devices to knowledge workers such as managers and executives with sophisticated needs and high-powered computers. Moreover, the number and variety of applications is growing. This is especially true with client-server, Web, and desktop applications—the three main application types. Analysts expect these apps to continue to grow in aggregate by more than 20% between 2005 and 2008. An application delivery infrastructure enables IT organizations to provide their users access to any application, regardless of its class, architecture, or delivery challenges, with the fastest possible performance, best possible security, and lowest possible cost.
Only the Citrix application delivery infrastructure provides a comprehensive solution for all application types and user access scenarios:
- Application Virtualization—best for client-server applications with Citrix Presentation Server.
- Application Optimization—best for Web applications with Citrix NetScaler.
- WAN Optimization—best for all applications in branch offices with Citrix WANScaler.
- Application Streaming—best for desktop applications with Citrix Presentation Server.
Don’t Forget Citrix iForum!
As we reminded you last month, you’ve got a golden opportunity to attend the annual conference on application delivery—without having to fly to Florida to do it! iForum 2007 will be held at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas October 22—25. If you miss this one, you will probably have to wait until 2009 for iForum to be back on the West Coast.Get the latest product information from Citrix as well as from the manufacturers of “Citrix-Ready” products. Get a look behind the curtain at what’s coming. Attend informative “how-to” sessions and hands-on labs. Mingle with your peers in the IT world and hear how they are addressing application delivery problems.
Thank You
Moose Logic does not sell ad space in Moose Views—but we would like to give a big “thank-you” to Dormik Designs, a proud sponsor of Team Moose Racing. If you’ve been to ITEC the last couple of years, you’ve seen their work: they’ve done the graphics for the race car, the banners we’ve hung in the booth, and the embroidery work on the official Team Moose shirts!
We recommend them wholeheartedly!
