ICT Security Education and Awareness for Students

Learning to use the Internet safely should begin at a young age in school so that the generation of youth has the basic knowledge to practice and infuse or inculcate safe Internet use when they join the workforce. Some students have the ability to explore and find out the best practices themselves while yet the majority of others need to be taught or guided. The Hacker Highschool site is one of several websites that provides easy to follow materials on safe Internet use for school children.

The Hacker Highschool project is the development of license-free, security and privacy awareness teaching materials and back-end support for teachers.

Today's kids and teens are in a world with major communication and productivity channels open to them and they don't have the knowledge to defend themselves against the fraud, identity theft, privacy leaks and other attacks made against them just for using the Internet. This is the reason for Hacker Highschool.

In HHS, you will find lessons on utilizing Internet resources safely such as web privacy, chat protection, viruses and trojans (malware), and the over-all focus on how to recognize security problems on your computer. HHS is a great supplement to student course work or as part of after-school and club activities.The HHS program is developed by ISECOM, a non-profit, open-source research group focused on security awareness and professional security development and accreditation. >> More ..