Kaspersky Safe Kids For Mac

The internet can be an amazing educational resource for your children, as long as you make sure they don’t cross safety boundaries. Kaspersky Safe Kids is a user friendly system that helps you gain parental controls over both desktop and mobile devices.

Currently, Kaspersky Safe Kids can be installed on Mac and Windows computers, or on iOS or Android mobile devices. As a result, you will be able to protect your kids against cyberbullying and other threats whenever they go online.

For your convenience, Kaspersky Safe Kids comes with an installer package that automatically downloads and deploys the application. At the same time, the software archive also includes an uninstaller that will help you remove Kaspersky Safe Kids from your Mac.

Note that, upon installation, the Kaspersky Safe Kids application will consider your current OS X account as administrator: you must create a new account for each of your kids, and then add them to the list of controlled devices. As a result, each time your children will use the device, they must login to their own account.

Also worth mentioning is that, while on the administrator account, you can use the Kaspersky Safe Kids application to add new accounts to be monitored, or to change their status, but to actually view the statistics and activity reports, you must connect to your My Kaspersky account via the web console.

Within the Kaspersky Safe Kids web console you can visualize statistics and reports concerning the internet usage, and you get to decide which type of websites are banned or not. The webpages are organized by category, but you can also create a personalized list of website and effortlessly change their status.

The same rules apply when handling installed applications: you can decide which type of apps can be run by the controlled account, and which ones are restricted. Note that any of these limitations can be immediately bypassed on the controlled account by providing your Kaspersky account’s credentials.

Moreover, besides recording the account’s activity, Kaspersky Safe Kids can also enforce a device usage schedule: you can set quantitative time limits per day, or you can specify the exact hours when the device usage is restricted or allowed.

If you are installing the Kaspersky Safe Kids companion app on an iOS or Android device that is GPS enabled, via the My Kaspersky console you will also be able to view the exact location of the device: this way, you have the possibility to check on your kids whereabouts at all times.

Kaspersky Safe Kids provides an unobtrusive solution for keeping an eye on your child’s online activity: you get to monitor the internet usage, to block potentially harmful content, to enforce a device usage schedule, and so on.

Even if the Kaspersky Safe Kids system can prove to be a bit demanding to setup, once everything is in place, the web console will provide everything you need. The best part is that, since it is web based, you will be able to access the statistics on any device that has a web browser installed.