KQED Youth Takeover: Cybersecurity Tips and Tricks for a Safer Digital Life

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Cybersecurity underpins our digital lives, and is relevant for all ages – including teens. According to the CDC, teens spend between 7.5 to 9 hours a day on their screens and being mindful of cybersecurity best practices is critical. As part of KQED’s annual Youth Takeover week, Cupertino High senior Rajvi Khanjan Shroff, founder of Project Cyber, a youth-run cybersecurity organization, joins us with a panel of experts she’s brought together to discuss what tips and tricks you can use to protect your devices and digital accounts to become cybersecure. Guests: Sheera Frenkel, technology reporter based in San Francisco, The New York Times; co-author of "An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination" Rinki Sethi, vice president and Chief Information Security Officer, Bill.com Rajvi Khanjan Shroff, high school senior, Cupertino High School; founder, Project Cyber - a cybersecurity organization Riju Parakh, associate director, Global Cybersecurity and Managed Services Methodology Development for Ernst and Young Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.8	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:03.4	Oh man, it's an exciting week for us here at Forum and at KQED as a whole.
1:11.8	It's Youth Takeover Week, and our team has been working with five young people to produce and help me host shows about topics that they care about.
1:18.1	Up first, we've got Rajvi Kanjan Shrop, a student at Cupertino High School, and the founder of Project Cyber, a youth-run cybersecurity organization.
1:21.8	Who do we have on the show today, Rajvi?
1:23.7	We'll be joined by Rinky Sezi, Bill.com Chief Information Security Officer, Shira Frankel, the New York Times Cybersecurity Reporter, and Rijou Parrach, a cybersecurity specialist at Ernst & Young.
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1:48.0	I'm Alexis Madrigal.
1:49.6	It is Youth Takeover Week here at KQED.
1:53.0	And I'm joined this morning by Rajvi Kanjohn Straff, a Cooper Tino high school student who produced this hour for him.
1:59.4	Hi, Rajvi.
2:00.3	Hi, Alexis.
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