Digital security intensive for schoolchildren

The goal is to tell teenagers about the problems related to cyber attacks: how to detect, prevent and protect yourself from cyber criminals. And now explain what "information hygiene" is and why "hacker" is not always a bad thing.

On October 27, Lviv University hosted an online event "Digital Security Intensive for Schoolchildren" as part of the International Cyber Security Month. It was organized by the Marketing and Development  center of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with the support of the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Cyber Police, the Lviv Regional Military Administration, the Lviv IT Cluster, the public organization "Laboratory of Ideas", IT companies SoftServe and GlobalLogic. In total, more than 160 schoolchildren volunteered to attend the cyber intensive. The speakers of this intensive are qualified specialists who work in the direction of digital security. They told schoolchildren about the problems related to digital attacks, and also shared their knowledge and experience in this direction. In particular, the participants listened to a creative lecture "Cybersecurity and the need of the 21st century", which was prepared by a certified information systems auditor (CISA); GlobalLogic consultant - Maryna Lyakhova; SoftServe specialist Mykhailo Kropyva prepared a report on cyber hygiene in the information space; and SoftServe specialist Roman Karpiuk spoke about the safe and not-so-safe Internet. The participants also met with the police captain Valeria Ivkova and with the representative of the Lviv IT Cluster Oleg Leskiv.

Young people learned how to identify cybercriminals, protect themselves and their families from possible cyber threats.