IT security in secondary CS education
Manuel Riel, Ralf Romeike · 2020
There is a steady increase of digital networking in our world, e. g. in the form of "smart" devices as part of the internet-of-things or more recently with daily video conferences. This progress is accompanied by weekly media reports on security incidents affecting the IT we use on a daily basis. In order to provide orientation in this seemingly "insecure" digital world, it is necessary for every digital citizen to have a basic knowledge of the field of IT security. Current curricula for secondary CS education already try to cover some aspects of IT security - however, practical reports suggest that some important security-related topics have not yet been considered. Based on this assumption, we use a Qualitative Content Analysis to compare international as well as German secondary school curricula with an up-to-date body of knowledge of IT security to identify the gap to knowledge areas in current curricula.