A Framework to Integrate ICT Security Awareness into the South African Schooling System

Abstract

In various countries, information and communication technology (ICT) is used to enhance and improve the levels and standards of education. Scholars in countries such as South Africa have conducted studies to prove that ICT can be essential in the improvement and enhancement of education. This study deals with the problem of the lack of ICT security awareness in South African education (among South African learners). Research studies that have been conducted have shown that there is a huge problem when it comes to integrating ICT security awareness into the South African schooling system. With the resurgence of new technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and Skype, school learners are more vulnerable to ICT security attacks and ICT-related crime than ever before. Even though the studies, models and frameworks have been conducted and proposed, there is still a gap when it comes to solutions that are directed specifically to South African school learners. Hence a more integrated approach in the form of a framework, directed mostly on South African school learners, has been proposed in this study. In this study, an in-depth literature review of past scholarly work, models and frameworks is done. Having reviewed some of the existing models and frameworks, and identified the potential gaps, a framework to address the aforementioned problem is proposed. The results of the literature review analysis and the proposed framework are reported and compared to support the gap analysis.