Training Teenagers to Ensure Their Own Cybersecurity

Abstract

iInformatization of education and all aspects of everyday and professional life have led to the fact that modern man can not fully function outside the digital environment. The most vulnerable to the manifestation of cyberthreats and negative impacts of ICT are adolescents, due to the peculiarities of physiology and personal development. At the present stage of humanities development not enough attention is paid to the problem of teaching teenagers the basics of personal cybersecurity in the information technology use. The article presents the content of the course "Fundamentals of cybersecurity" for children of early adolescence, developed on the basis of the personal cybersecurity needs analysis from modern ICT-threats.