Citizen Cyber Security

About the Program

Category: Civic Education and Public Information (Best in Category)

Year: 2020

York County's Citizen Cyber Security initiative is designed to educate the community of the dangers of the Internet and how to easily protect themselves from most cyber threats. The initiative accomplishes this through a three-phase approach.The first step is to engage the citizens with an in-person presentation to make them aware of the various risks and how to reduce them in a broad sense. The second step is an informal question and answer session where citizens can ask how the prior guidance applies to their devices and lifestyles. The final step is access to an on-line repository of the exact steps needed to protect themselves, delivered in a non-technical format.The original plan was to deliver the presentation at 3 sessions to at least 15 attendees. Over the course of a year, it has been delivered in 12 sessions to over 375 people. The overall average follow-up survey rating by attendees has been 4.9 out of a possible 5.