AWARENESS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS TOWARDS CYBER- SECURITY

In this era, elementary education has become more attractive with the digital touch. Technology plays a crucial role in an integrated classroom environment. Elementary education transformed from a blackboard to the digital tools of teachers. Teachers enhance their teaching skills through various online teaching-learning platforms. Many of them are also active on social media. In these days, to face some educational-related problems, teachers go through the internet and find the appropriate solution. One side of the Internet is beneficial, but the other side introduces cyber-threats and cyber-attacks. Hackers access personal data and use it in a bad manner. This paper investigates the awareness of cyber security among elementary school teachers in Purulia District. 100 respondents are from rural and urban school localities as a sample of this study. The descriptive survey method has been used. The result shows that no significant difference of elementary teachers on the basis of gender. But there is notable difference on the school locale.