CYBER SECURITY
UGC releases Digital Hygiene handbook to help teachers follow cyber security protocols:
To handle this, the UGC released a ‘Digital Hygiene’ handbook that lists tips for the teachers to ensure safe virtual classrooms. This handbook will help students and teachers in the rural parts, who were suddenly exposed to digital learning. The handbook offers information on the concepts of safe cyber space protocols and teachers’ redefined roles for using digital tools. These protocols aim to expand the role of teachers as mentors.
Sudharshan Mishra, head, Department of Education, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha said that the UGC handbook has listed a set of rules on what to do and what not do, and this will help teachers to utilize the allotted teaching hours in more productive manner. He says, “The protocols have brought one such sharp qualitative teaching option for achieving learning goals. Besides this, responsibilities of teachers and their teaching style are also redefined and have got diversified, making us aware of secure online pathways to preparing and delivering a lesson plan in a tech-savvy style”
Mishra further said that to keep students engaged in virtual classroom, teachers do keep a track of all asked queries or doubts and respond to all communications, mostly on a real-time basis. He says,” Besides, answering queries raised at discussion forums, chat rooms, videos, or other forms of the virtual classroom, teachers have to remain available for students after the class hours too.”
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In the U.S., the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has created a cyber-security framework. To combat the proliferation of malicious code and aid in early detection, the framework recommends continuous, real-time monitoring of all electronic resources.
The importance of system monitoring is echoed in the “10 steps to cyber security”, guidance provided by the U.K. government’s National Cyber Security Centre. In Australia, TheAustralian Cyber Security Centre(ACSC) regularly publishes guidance on how organizations can counter the latest cyber-security threats.
Definition. Cyber security can be described as the collective methods, technologies, and processes to help protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of computer systems, networks and data, against cyber-attacks or unauthorized access.
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