Digital Citizenship Workshop
#9 DIGITAL SECURITY
Learning Objectives
By the end of this workshop, attendees should be able to:
1. Define Digital Security.
2. Explain one way students can protect digital information
3. Describe why pass code is important
1. Define Digital Security.
2. Explain one way students can protect digital information
3. Describe why pass code is important
Digital Security Overview
As with everything we value in a community, safe guarding to prevent theft or misconduct is required. In terms of the digital community, it is everyone's responsibility to safe guard access to personal or professional data via strong passwords. This is true for bank accounts as well as social media accounts (Ribble, 2015). Sensitive information about our personal lives and professional lives is now available online. While most accounts are password protected, it is possible that a professional hacker could break into your accounts. To prevent this from happening, educators should warn students about using common passwords or using the same password for multiple accounts (Ribble, 2015). Additional, educators and students alike should keep up on software updates and pass codes to protect their material and installing additional protections to combat hackers, identity theft, phishing, stalking etc (Ribble, 2015).
Connections to Digital Citizenship Element
WSET students are required to create a unique password to access their accounts. This helps to reduce the amount of theft and hacking that can happen. All candidates have access to the WSET site. Keeping password separate from other data is best (Ribble, 2015). It is important to advise students not share codes.. From hardware and network security to terrorist's threats, educators should warn students of frauds in the industry. Further, all students by their classes on line, so security is a top concern. Finally, many students buy wine online. This has risks and tight control on pass words and vendor selection is a high priority.
In Summary
Digital security is everyone's responsibility. Much like locking the doors on your car and on your home, making sure your "digital home" is secure not only protects the ownership and privacy you require, but it also helps to make a strong unified community of digital citizens. Over time, this works to create a safer and healthier community over all. Ownership of the collective responsibility helps to deter hacking and viruses from creating havoc within the community
References
Raphelson, S.(2014). Forget tough passwords: New guidelines make it simple. [Radio Broadcast episode] https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/08/14/543434808/forget-tough-passwords-new-guidelines-make-it-simple
Ribble, M. (2015). Digital citizenship in schools: Nine elements all students should know. (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Education.
Ribble, M. (2015). Digital citizenship in schools: Nine elements all students should know. (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: International Society for Technology in Education.
NPR Broadcast
August, 14, 2017
All Things Considered: Forget tough passwords: New guidelines make it simple
Digital security has a lot to do with passwords (Raphelson, 2017). In today's cyber world, longer is harder to break, so make pass words that contain easy to remember phrases using regular letters. There is not need to add special characters. In fact, easy to remember drawn out words are the best because the user will remember it, and it is harder to crack (Raphelson, 2017). Since all WSET students have an account, it is best to remind the students to create a long password that is easy for them to remember. Password managers are also great for preventing break ins. This will stop someone from using your material or stealing your identity.