The Internet Wants You!
For week 4 of the National Cyber Security Awareness Month, students and professionals are asked to help grow the profession of cybersecurity. Whether exploring a career, mentoring or just taking a few minutes to share some news -- every little bit helps!
As a reminder, we will highlight a new topic each week and we invite our clients, partners, friends and family to join us and discuss the latest recommendations on Facebook and LinkedIn!
Here are few recommendations from NCSAM on how you can help! #CyberAware
- Make a difference
- Teach students about careers in #cybersecurity by volunteering at schools, clubs & community centers.
- If you're a cybersecurity pro, consider being a mentor to a student, school or another developing professional.
- Here's some resources and materials to help get you started, https://staysafeonline.org/resources/?filter=.topic-stay-safe-online.resource-item
- @CyberPatriot helps to inspire students seeking a career in cybersecurity and other STEM disciplines. https://www.uscyberpatriot.org/
- Host a cybersecurity event
- Host an open house at your company and teach the students and community about cybersecurity
- Work with schools and community-based organizations to create internship programs for hands-on learning
- Teachers, host a cybersecurity competition for your students!
- Parents & teachers
- Learn about the educational steps in helping guide students for a career in cybersecurity at GenCyber https://www.gen-cyber.com/
- PARENTS -- Check out this awesome guide from NCSA to help your kids follow a career path in cybersecurity https://staysafeonline.org/resource/ncsas-parent-primer-guiding-kids-careers-cybersecurity/
For a personal note from JUDS's IT & Security Consultant:
"Creating cybersecurity awareness in our youth is increasingly important. It is an unfortunate side effect in the world of free apps and more ways to share info than ever before, that these cool and trendy things will introduce unintended consequences and risks to children.
Just as a child's physical safety is important; their online presence, activity and data needs to be protected too.
If a child is using a parent's device with access the internet, the parent needs to be diligent in protecting that device, the info on it, what their child has access to and how they're using that device. Even if a child is using a device outside of the parent's control, the parent should still periodically talk with their child about their online activities and review their activities with them." -- Bennett Galvacky, CISSP
For more tips on keeping children safe online, please check out (ISC)2 Safe & Secure Online's site at: https://safeandsecureonline.org/
