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Cyber Security And Social Shift Essay

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Wolfgang Goerlich once said, ““Employees make decisions every day that negatively affects their business’s security…As a result, we have known for a while that, to protect organizations, employees need online street smarts. However, the problem is that some in the industry treats employee awareness as a training concern or one-time activity. It is not. It is an ongoing cultural problem.”1 The question is then levied, “How do we influence a cultural shift?”. It is evident that personnel need to be better trained in cyber security, but will training adults currently in the workforce be sufficient? I believe that cyber security education must begin at earlier ages if a cultural shift is ever going to happen. Cyber security should receive the same attention that physical security receives during early childhood development. Successful integration of cyber security into early childhood development will result in more conscientious adults and will require engaged parents, integration into institutional learning, and integration into media.

The first, and arguably most important, requirement to successfully incorporate cyber security into education is parental involvement. After a study completed in 2001 the National Research council recommended “Early childhood programs and centers should build alliances with parents to cultivate complementary and mutually reinforcing environments for young children at home and at the center.”2 Although it seems paradoxical that in order to

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