{"id":96527,"date":"2019-10-03T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/securingtomorrow.mcafee.com\/?p=96527"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T02:36:27","slug":"first-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/blogs\/internet-security\/first-footprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter Preview: Birth to Age 2 \u2013 First Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When your baby is on the way, their privacy and digital security is probably the last thing you have on your mind. At least it\u2019s way down there on the list\u2014of course it is! You\u2019re preparing for a bright, joyous addition to your family and home. Everything you\u2019re doing is intended to create an environment that is safe and comfortable, so your baby knows a warm and loving world right from the start. Not to mention, you and your family are anticipating how much you\u2019ll enjoy these milestones.<\/p>\n<h2>On Security<\/h2>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gNYIHjqd-SI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>Part of the enjoyment includes sharing these moments, which is mainly done online these days. (When\u2019s the last time you took a picture on film and had it printed?) From digital invitations, to baby showers, and ultrasound pictures posted on social media\u2014the weeks and months leading up to birth are a celebration as well. And that\u2019s where your baby\u2019s data lake gets its initial drops. Your posts on social media make up the first little digital streams feeding their data lake, along with anything else you share about them online.<\/p>\n<p>When my children were babies we spent a lot of time \u201cbaby proofing\u201d the house. You know, putting special locks on the kitchen cabinets, plastic covers on electrical outlets, baby gates, and more. Today that behavior needs to extend online. We need to be the guardians of our baby\u2019s privacy, identity, and security until they get to the age where they understand what\u2019s at risk and can protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cEjNIs9_coU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nNo doubt you will want to share all those precious moments as your bundle of joy fills your life with happiness, despite the possible risks. With that in mind, there\u2019s an entire chapter in &#8220;Is Your Digital Front Door Unlocked?&#8221; dedicated to your baby\u2019s first steps online, offering suggestions on what constitutes a healthy balance of what should and should not be shared. It also looks at other important considerations that you may not have thought of, such as getting your baby a Web address and monitoring their identity to make sure an identify thief hasn\u2019t hijacked it\u2014plenty of things many parents wouldn\u2019t think of, but should, given the way our world works today.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Davis\u2019 book, <b><i>Is Your Digital Front Door Unlocked?,<\/i><\/b> is available September 5, 2019 and can be ordered at\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07WH4CWZW?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07WH4CWZW?ref_=pe_3052080_276849420\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">amazon.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When your baby is on the way, their privacy and digital security is probably the last thing you have on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":674,"featured_media":96528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10661,13,12],"tags":[4452,32,4148],"coauthors":[3973],"class_list":["post-96527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet-security","category-privacy-identity-protection","category-family-safety","tag-cybersecurity","tag-data-protection","tag-privacy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chapter Preview: Birth to Age 2 \u2013 First Footprints<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When your baby is on the way, their privacy and digital security is probably the last thing you have on your mind. 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