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Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

KIDS AT RISK ONLINE: CHRIS HANSEN & CYBER EXPERT WARN PARENTS

Have A Seat with Chris Hansen

Chris Hansen

True Crime

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Chris Hansen continues his awareness and fight to keeping children safe on-line and has a seat with 30-year veteran cyber security expert Ben Gillenwater, AKA, The Family IT Guy. The two have an eye-opening discussion about what is really happening on platforms and games that are so-called ‘safe' for children, and vital tips for parents and adults on what they can do to protect children.  Gillenwater explains how social media apps and games like Roblox are at the core, revenue generating platforms that are designed to create engagement, or what he calls, addictions. Both Hansen & Gillenwater know your children are being targeted and attacked on-line, so what are you doing about it?  Check out this latest episode of Have a Seat with Chris Hansen to find out how you can be more vigilant and pro-active in your child’s on-line activities. www.familyitguy.com This episode is brought to you in part by Dupe: Stop wasting money on brand names and start saving with https://Dupe.com today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

There's a saying, and you've heard it, called It Takes a Village, and that's true.

0:15.1

And mostly that refers to family members and extended friends, getting together to make

0:20.2

sure kids are raised properly,

0:21.9

communities are safe, and things like that. But there is also a need, and I believe this truly,

0:29.7

that it takes a digital village to keep kids safe online. And you may have seen the fellow who's going to have a seat with me next all over social media, TikTok, YouTube.

0:42.6

His name is Ben Gillenwater.

0:44.9

And he goes online by the moniker, the family IT guy.

0:49.6

And I think just about everybody, including myself, could use a family IT guy. Of course, we've been catching

0:56.1

predators online for more than 20 years, but there are some very specific and important

1:01.7

things to consider when it comes to keeping your children safe online. And Ben is my guest today

1:07.6

on Have a Seed. Ben, thank you for joining me. Chris, hi there. Thanks for having

1:12.7

me. I appreciate it. How did you first get into this? Now, you've been a cybersecurity industry guy

1:19.6

for some 30 years. What made you decide to say, hey, I can use my expertise to help others,

1:26.7

to help parents keep their children safe online.

1:30.7

Yeah, I've, shoot, I've been at this professionally since 1995.

1:35.7

I introduce myself as, I'm a dad first, and I'm a cybersecurity expert with 30 years of experience.

1:41.9

And my background includes working with the NSA. I was the chief

1:47.0

technologist of a $10 billion IT company. And the way that I got into this family IT guy thing is that,

1:54.0

you know, I've built very complex global computer systems and I've done support for grandmas and everything in between.

2:03.6

And I understand how tech works deeply.

2:06.6

And one of my specialties is bridging the gap between the sort of super complicated world of computers and the world of people.

2:15.6

And I found that once I became a dad and my friends and my clients and my colleagues asked

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