The Importance of Cybersecurity Education in School
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The article relates to the principles of social science because it talks about the criminology of cyberspace as it relates to children and why cybersecurity needs to be taught to children. They are very vulnerable to cybercrime which their parents aren’t even aware of which would be determinism. It also relates to parsimony because they are addressing issues about cybersecurity especially with the issue of cybercrime they could face and how it should be implemented. The article has two research questions. One of them is, what is the importance of cybersecurity education in schools? A survey was done on adults and cybersecurity, and it stated that participants would be less interested in spending their money and time on seminars or programs about cybersecurity.
Therefore, makes cybersecurity being taught in schools as a place of knowledge to bring light to the issues regarding cybersecurity in the community. The other one is, what are the strategies that stakeholders can use to promote cybersecurity education in schools? Video cartoons can be used to grab the student’s attention to cybersecurity or even teaching it in different subjects such as using essays about cybersecurity so they can do research on it which will also help educate them on the topic. The article’s hypothesis is to discuss the importance of the youth of today are educated about the risks dealing with the cyberspace, the factors that could mitigate this education, and the emphasis put on cybersecurity curriculum that can be used by teachers in schools in the Malaysian education system.
The types of data and analysis done were research studies in the field of cybersecurity in education. Some of the databases used were Emerald, Google Scholar, Sci, Scopus and EBSCOhost and the keywords used were cybersecurity, cyberawareness, and cyber education. Two languages were used, and they were Malay and English and limited to studies published between 2011 until 2019. Over 240 studies were found but only 25 were used based off context, scope, and respondents. Concepts like archival research and multi-method research are related to the article because they used information from databases and used keywords in their research while also doing surveys. The challenges of that come with educating children in cybersecurity in schools as the teachers may not have the experience or knowledge, finances, or resources to effectively teach cybersecurity. The overall contribution of this article is that it gives ideas and helps bring awareness on what should be done to help children in schools to become educated in cybersecurity so that cyberspace issues can be prevented.
Juvenile Hackers: An Empirical Test of Self-Control Theory and Social Bonding Theory
The article relates to the principles of social sciences because it has parsimony and determinism. The parsimony in the article talks about juvenile hackers and their low self-control and social bonding with hacking. The determinism in article talks what their motivations behind hacking and how it could be a determination on why juveniles hack. The study’s hypotheses is to run an empirical test to and how effective the concepts of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) self-control theory and Hirschi’s (1969) social bonding theory dealing with juvenile computer hacking.
The study’s hypotheses were higher levels of low self-control will increase computer hacking. The other one is, higher levels of parent attachment will decrease computer hacking. Higher levels of attachment to a parental supervision will decrease computer hacking. Higher levels of involvement will decrease computer hacking. Higher levels of school attachment will decrease computer hacking. The study used the second International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISTD-2) which is a large international collaborative project investigating adolescent deviant behaviors which also included computer hacking.
The data collected was in 31 countries that were grouped by geographical regions. The research methods used were participants of a self-report survey which was 68,507 students from grades 7, 8, and 9 between the ages of 12-15 years old. The surveys were given between the years of 2005 and 2007 and given to random samples by teachers or researchers. About 2,100 students were surveyed per country, which majority were by pencil and paper interview (PAPI). Three countries used a computerized survey. In each country, the data collectors used a strategic random selection process to make sure classrooms from metropolitan areas, midsize cities, and small towns were given equal representation in the final sample.
Concepts like field studies and multi-method research are related to the article because of the researchers going out to areas to seek data and give surveys. The topic relates to the challenges, concerns, and contributions of juvenile hackers because they tend to have lower levels of self-control and attachment to parental supervision. This is a concern because maybe parents need to be supervising their children better because they are more likely to develop bad behaviors. The contribution of involved parents seems to lower the chances of children being juvenile hackers. The overall contribution of the study shows what effect good parenting tactics can have on children in order to lead them in a good direction.