Curated OER
Information Security Basics
Students explore the five steps to becoming a security expert. In this information security lesson plan, students complete a tutorial and problem solve case studies to identify proper online procedures and safety.
Curated OER
Basic Infosec
Sixth graders identify similarities between home security and computer (or information) security. In this information security lesson, 6th graders create their own secure folders using passwords on the computer to organize their...
Other
Pcstats.com: Beginners Guides: Home Networking and File Sharing
This site contains information about establishing and maintaining a secure home computer network, with an emphasis on Windows-based operation systems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Public Key Encryption
Learn how public key encryption can send that data safely between computer systems.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Need for Encryption
A huge amount of private data is sent around the Internet every day: emails with details about our personal lives, passwords that we type into login screens, tax documents that we upload to servers. Learn more about the need for data...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: User Authentication Methods
Some practice problems on user authentication methods regarding computer security.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Multi Factor Authentication
Find out about the security of the most common form of authentication, multi-factor authentication.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Computer Security
This site contains a Wikipedia description of computer security.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Network Security
This site contains a Wikipedia description of network security.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Principles of Computer System Design: An Introduction
This site makes available the second part of a textbook on computer system design. The chapters cover topics such as fault tolerance, networking, consistency and information security.