| Abstrakt: |
Internet has become one of the integral parts of our daily life. It has transformed the way we communicate; make friends, share updates, play games, and shop. They are impacting most aspects of our day-to-day life. Education is one of the important sectors for dissemination of information on prevention of cyber-crimes and reiterated that students can act, as a force multiplier to create an ecosystem for cyber security and to prevent cyber-crimes. Cyberspace connects us virtually with crores of online users across the globe. With increasing use of cyberspace, cybercrimes especially against women and children such as cyber stalking, cyber bullying, cyber harassment, child pornography, rape content, etc. are also increasing rapidly. To stay safe in the online world, it is important to follow some cyber safe practices which may help in making our online experience more productive. Cyber Hygiene is the need-of-the-hour in the world which is rapidly transforming to an online mode. This paper focuses on how cyber hygiene can be introduced and implemented in higher educational institutes so that both direct and indirect stakeholders of the institute are safe from security threats. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
