Very few resources are expended on cybersecurity education in US schools. Before the pandemic, most school systems had no system in place for distance learning, and cybersecurity education wasn’t a priority – even schools that had adequate funding for technology were more likely to use it for coding or robotics.
- 70% of US K-12 students are participating in part to fulltime distance learning.
- Less than 10% of K – 12 educators surveyed in one study were well versed in cybersecurity.
- Less than 45 percent of K – 12 students receive regular cybersecurity and security awareness education.
- Less than 50% of all of the teachers surveyed say that their or districts offer any cybersecurity education at all.
- About 20% of schools offer no cybersecurity education at all.
- On average, about 40% of schools teach basic digital literacy.
- Cyberbullying is the most frequently taught cybersecurity topic.
- Student knowledge about cybersecurity is lower in public schools, especially in economically challenged areas.
- 100% of surveyed school districts use a firewall and a web content filter but only 3% use cloud security technology to monitor and secure their G Suite and Microsoft 365 environments.
- Less than 10 percent of educators say their students have learned about systems engineering, artificial intelligence, or cyberlaw in the past year.
- Microsoft reported that 61 percent of the nearly 7.7 million enterprise malware encounters reported in June 2020 came from sources in the education sector.
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