Privacy and Security Training Platform for a Diverse Audience

In the field of information technology, cybersecurity and privacy are critical concepts. The importance of privacy, ethics, and social media awareness education has grown in recent years because of the widespread use of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It becomes crucial that more people from both technical and non-technical backgrounds must enter the field of cybersecurity to address future challenges. In this paper, we study how to incorporate concepts like privacy, ethics, and social media use into Capture the Flag (CTF) challenges/tasks to make cybersecurity interesting and appealing to a wider audience covering technical savvy and technical non-savvy people. The workshops have been conducted in Danish high schools, which is the foundation of how students have been separated into technical and non-technical students. This has allowed for the investigation of both students’ and teachers’ reactions to exercises that integrated non-technical concepts into cybersecurity training. The study has been done by observing how students interact with both the platform and the exercises, online questionnaires, and short interviews with teachers and students during the workshops. According to the findings, participants from a variety of educational backgrounds found broader cybersecurity concepts appealing and interesting. Furthermore, participant feedback is used to create new CTF challenges.