Teaching cyber security foundations

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Cyber security experts have called for online safety and security fundamentals to be taught from early primary school, after a review of the national curriculum revealed key skills gaps.

A report led by Dr Nicola Johnson for the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre, has mapped the cyber safety content in the new Australian Curriculum against skills recommended by the Centre, for individuals and families to protect against common cyber security threats.

Today Cosmos journalist Petra Stock talks to Dr Johnson, from the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, who says “we need to start early with five-year-olds ... there is a need to educate people from a young age to protect themselves from common cybersecurity threats.”

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