Being safe online is just as important as being safe walking down the street - Interview with Heather Dahl , Co-founder of The Cynja LLC

Dear Readers and Subscribers,

We are proud to finally share with you a long awaited interview with Heather Dahl from The Cynja! They are building an app to help our children navigate cyberspace safely with security and privacy features customized to inspire and educate. CynjaSpace is not just a game or tutorial but a
full immersive cyber-environment designed for kids. Enjoy reading!

[eForensics Magazine]: There is a story and a big idea behind your company. Can you tell us something more about it?

[Heather Dahl]: Once upon a time, I found my nephew, Grant, fighting some dragons, which—to be honest—struck me as pretty useless. No disrespect to dragons—or dragon slayers—but they’re old-school.  So I said, “C’mon Grant, why don’t you fight the real bad guys—the ones that live in our computers?”

He had no idea what I was talking about.

This was frustrating because fighting bad guys is his passion. And there are lots of bad guys in cyberspace.

So I decided to buy him a book that would explain the wild cyber world of worms and zombies and Trojans and show him how awesome this world—the world I work in—really is. It would also introduce him to an important life lesson: We now live in....