The COVID-19 pandemic is like a perfect storm for perpetrators. Lockdowns have had a major impact on both children and adults as they have spent more time online, and the result is a dramatic increase in online child sexual abuse crime. Now we know that by fact.

Last week NetClean released NetClean Insights, a first-of-its-kind survey targeting senior IT professionals and assessing the threat that they face from child sexual abuse material (CSAM). I must say that I was taken by the numbers that were revealed but I’m not at all surprised.

In the middle of the pandemic, NetClean fundamentally changed its strategy and partnered up with VMware – one of the biggest IT companies in the world. In this blog post, NetClean CEO Anna Borgström reflects on how it is to dance with the giants and what she has learned from some of the industry’s top leaders.

The global technology provider Arrow Electronics has signed a distribution agreement with NetClean. The agreement gives Arrow’s channel partners access to NetClean’s products ProActive and ProTective, which help ethical businesses discover and reduce the spread of child sexual abuse material.

The NetClean ProTective Suite is growing and with the latest addition, the ProTective iOS app, it is now easier than ever to mitigate security risks and protect business mobile phones and tablets from child sexual abuse material.

The Covid-19 pandemic has driven a sharp increase in IT security risk for businesses, as employees working from home use corporate IT equipment to access or share child sexual abuse material.