Program Teaches Kids About Cyber Security

William Kates of the Associated Press (via Newsday.com) writes:

ROME, N.Y. - A group of students at Rome Catholic School are learning how to become the future defenders of cyberspace through a pilot program that officials say is the first of its kind in the country.

The program teaches students about data protection, computer network protocols and vulnerabilities, security, firewalls and forensics, data hiding, and infrastructure and wireless security.

Most important, officials said, teachers discuss ethical and legal considerations in cyber security.

“It’s a great course. It’s a little harder than I expected,” said Catherine Gudaitis, a junior interested in theater. “But I know in the world I’m going to live in, this will be necessary information, even common knowledge…“

Much more wisely spoken than something I would have said in my high school days. Of course, the computers we had only displayed in green and didn’t hook up to the outside world.

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