Home PC security in a nutshell

Well, a little bigger than a nutshell, but definitely neatly packaged. Even while thinking it'd be pretty impossible to make family PC security easy and mindless, I've been watching for some company to try it. Then Eli, Inc., contacted me. What I found was that it took one ambitious mom - more than just an ambitious computer-security expert - to want to take on the task of securing the kids, computers, and networks in today's households. Susan Lutz, mom and CEO of ELI, based in Mount Laurel, N.J., and Mainz, Germany, has traveled all over the world helping big companies secure their networks, but it took watching her 8-year-old daughter use a laptop to get her thinking very seriously about the family-PC-security problem. For the full story, please click to this week's issue of my newsletter.