{"id":4089,"date":"2021-05-09T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=4089"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T09:46:42","slug":"teaching-cyber-security-basics-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/teaching-cyber-security-basics-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Cyber Security basics to kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing effort over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/04\/30\/eaching_cybersecurity_to_five_year_olds\/\">Australia to teach cyber-security to five-year-old kids<\/a>. I am sure that it will be no surprise to anyone who knows me that I think that this is a brilliant idea. Security is a mindset and the earlier we can teach kids about the pitfalls and dangers online, the safer they will be online.<\/p>\n<p>Our generation grew up with the internet and still I see that most people are not that serious about security. I had a long argument\/discussion with Jani on why she had to have a passcode for her phone and why she couldn&#8217;t use the same password for everything. Now she understands what I was talking about and uses a password manager with unique password for each account. But that is not the same with my parents, I still have not managed to convince them to use a password manager. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>A little while ago I was talking to mom and she commented that my nephew Vir doesn&#8217;t share his account passwords with anyone and when my mom is typing her password he looks away. I credit Vinit for teaching him this and am really happy about it. This is what you get when a kid is taught about security from the get go. Instead of learning it later as an add on. Another year or so and I will have him start using a password manager as well. <\/p>\n<p>Habits learnt as a kid are really hard to unlearn and that is why I think it is really important that we get to kids as early as possible and teach them about cyber security. I mean we already teach them regular security and safety so why not cyber security and safety? Remember, they are spending a lot more time on the computer and the internet than we ever did and they need to be taught how to be careful online.<\/p>\n<p>Well this is all for now. Will post more later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an ongoing effort over at Australia to teach cyber-security to five-year-old kids. I am sure that it will be no surprise to anyone who knows me that I think that this is a brilliant idea. Security is a mindset and the earlier we can teach kids about the pitfalls and dangers online, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-security","category-my-thoughts","category-techie-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4118,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4089\/revisions\/4118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}