Trend Micro Releases Global Consumer Technology Use and Security Study

In its ‘Global Consumer Technology Use and Security Study,’ Trend Micro (News - Alert) asked parents on how their kids access the Internet and the steps they take to protect and educate them, the company has announced.

Sharing concerns about their children's increasing use of the Internet, most parents are like-minded, the survey stated. Nevertheless, parents in some countries worry more than those in other countries.

For example, compared to only 12 percent of parents in Japan, 56 percent of U.K. parents surveyed believe the Internet is safe for kids. Compared to 63 percent of parents in Brazil, only 12 percent of the Japanese parents surveyed reported their kids have an account with social networking sites.

“This study is encouraging as it shows the level of engagement by parents around the world in their kids' use of technology,” Lynette Owens, director of Trend Micro Internet Safety for Kids & Families. “Consistent parental involvement is the first step toward responsible, tech-savvy kids.  The next step is to make sure parents are getting the right facts and resources so they can, in turn, guide their kids.”

Particularly in the U.S. (85 percent), the U.K. (83 percent) and Australia (81 percent), the majority (73 percent) of parents whose children have an account with social networking sites indicated their children's online privacy on social networking sites is important.

More than half of the parents whose children use social networking are worried about their children's privacy on these sites 'frequently' or 'all the time,' the company stated in a press release.

Recently, the company announced the next release of of Deep Security. Leveraging Deep Security 8, organizations can achieve new levels of data protection and compliance without added cost and complexity. The new release announced at VMworld 2011 is significant as it will lower the barrier to adoption of file integrity monitoring across datacenters.

Deep Security is expected to strengthen the leadership of Trend Micro as a server security platform in the industry across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.