Security Awareness: A Core Competency for K-12 Students
In today's BYOD, online learning and remote-working world, the lines of our security perimeters have blurred. Devices logged into your systems right now might later connect via a library, cafe or home network that may — or may not — be secured.
Teaching our employees how to stay safe online has quickly become more than just a compliance requirement. It’s critical for protecting our organizations against the security threats technical controls might miss, and a core competency for both today’s and tomorrow’s workforce.
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As children, we’re taught many skills to help us succeed later in life and work. Communication skills, information literacy and problem solving are just a few that help shape us into valuable and successful employees. Here at Infosec, we also believe security awareness is a critical core competency for our children, students and staff.
That’s why we’re kicking off the first week of Cyber Security Awareness Month with free security awareness training modules for K-12 students.
Today’s youth spend more time than ever before online. Like learning to lock the front door behind you, security awareness training at an early age helps transform a behavioral concept into a habit. Our free K-12 series includes three fun security awareness training modules, with a fourth on the way to encourage the next generation to consider career paths in cybersecurity:
- Computer Security with Paige the Panda
- Security Awareness for Middle School
- Security Awareness for High School (watch it below!)
- Cybersecurity Careers
Each module contains age-appropriate messaging to both engage and educate students how to protect themselves, their friends and their schools from everyday security threats. Pairing these modules with custom assessments will help gauge student comprehension at every grade level.
It’s time to make security awareness a part of our lifestyles. Secure online habits help keep our identities, jobs and financial accounts secure. Layering security awareness training into your K-12 curriculum helps teach students how to stay safe online while adding another layer of defense to your overall security strategy.
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In this Series
- Security Awareness: A Core Competency for K-12 Students
- Beyond awareness: Human risk management is the new cybersecurity frontier
- Achieve PII compliance through security awareness training
- Tax scam season: How to protect your data from common scams in 2024
- Security awareness for kids: Tips for safe internet use
- Celebrate Data Privacy Week: Free privacy and security awareness resources
- Consumer data, who owns it and who protects it?
- Human error is responsible for 74% of data breaches
- What is a social engineering attack?
- Biggest cybersecurity mistakes by large organizations
- 4 common social media scams (and how to avoid them)
- From theory to practice: Designing a successful security awareness training program
- Understanding cyberattacks: Types, risks and prevention strategies
- Securing digital frontiers: The importance of information and IT security awareness training
- Optimizing your corporate security awareness training: Strategies and techniques
- What is security awareness: Definition, history and types
- Top 10 security awareness training topics for your employees in 2023 and beyond
- AI best practices: How to securely use tools like ChatGPT
- Connecting a malicious thumb drive: An undetectable cyberattack
- 5 ways to prevent APT ransomware attacks
- 4 mistakes every higher ed IT leader should avoid when building a cybersecurity awareness program
- ISO 27001 security awareness training: How to achieve compliance
- Run your security awareness program like a marketer with these campaign kits
- Deepfake phishing: Can you trust that call from the CEO?
- Fake shopping stores: A real and dangerous threat
- 10 best security awareness training vendors in 2022
- How to hack two-factor authentication: Which type is most secure?
- Malicious push notifications: Is that a real or fake Windows Defender update?
- Free Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ransomware resources to help reduce your risk
- How IIE moved mountains to build a culture of cybersecurity
- At Johnson County Government, success starts with engaging employees
- How to transform compliance training into a catalyst for behavior change
- Specialty Steel Works turns cyber skills into life skills
- The other sextortion: Data breach extortion and how to spot it
- Texas HB 3834: Security awareness training requirements for state employees
- SOCs spend nearly a quarter of their time on email security
- Security awareness manager: Is it the career for you?
- Risks of preinstalled smartphone malware in a BYOD environment
- The ROI of security awareness training
- 5 reasons to implement a self-doxxing program at your organization
- What is a security champion? Definition, necessity and employee empowerment [Updated 2021]
- Excel 4.0 malicious macro exploits: What you need to know
- Worst passwords of the decade: A historical analysis
- ID for Facebook, Twitter and other sites? Not so fast, says security expert
- 3 surprising ways your password could be hacked
- Fake online shopping websites: 6 ways to identify a fraudulent shopping website
- All about carding (for noobs only) [updated 2021]
- Password security: Complexity vs. length [updated 2021]
- What senior citizens need to know about security awareness
- 55 federal and state regulations that require employee security awareness and training
- Brand impersonation attacks targeting SMB organizations
We’ll customize our demo to your
- Security awareness goals
- Existing security and employee training tools
- Industry and compliance requirements
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