Cyber security Awareness among In-service secondary school teachers of Karnataka

Abstract

Teaching cyber security to students in schools is necessary to assist students to stay safe while using technology. Recently, a good amount of interest has been drawn towards understanding the concepts of cyber security and effort has been made by institutions to help introduce the concepts of cyber safety to the teachers. Guidelines were developed and disseminated and trainings were conducted for creating awareness about cyber security by various academic bodies like NCERT. In the present study an online survey was conducted with an objective to study the awareness levels of teachers on cyber security where in 92 secondary school teachers of Karnataka, India have participated. The findings indicate that the teachers were found to have medium level of awareness on cyber security and there is no significant difference in the cyber security awareness among the teachers with respect to gender& stream they belong to. It was found that the awareness levels on cyber security differ with respect to the age of the teachers. This study aims to open the possibilities for more research in this area in order to expand the arena for understanding the importance and usage of cyber security and how it could be implemented in the teaching environment.