Digital Citizenship
A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology. Digital citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the continuously developing norms of appropriate, responsible and empowered technology use. Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
The following are key concept to be understood for being the good Digital citizen.
- Proper use of Internet.
- Understanding user data
- Practicing digital literacy
- Acknowledging the digital divide
- Practicing digital wellness
- Securing digital devices
Digital foot print
A digital foot print is the record or track left by the things we do online. Our social media activity, the information on the personal website, browsing history, online subscriptions, any photo galleries and videos that we've uploaded - essentially, anything on the Internet with our name on it. Digital natives like today's students rarely think twice about putting their names on things online, so their footprints can be pretty wide. A digital footprint, sometimes called a digital record, is the body of data that exists as a result of actions and communications online that can in some way be traced back to an individual.
Digital footprints are sometimes broken down into active and passive data traces. Active data traces are the ones that the user leaves intentionally. Facebook, Twitter and blog posts, social network connections, image and video uploads; email, phone calls and chats are among the ways people create active digital footprints.
Digital footprint risks
The number of public digital actions online per person can reach millions. And, depending on the age of the individual, these digital actions could have been done years ago, when awareness about information security and enterprise data protection services was virtually inexistent. Each of these details by themselves presents some security risks, but combining information about an individual, such as his birth date, mother's maiden name, address and references of this information crossed with numerous apps and services that offer individual public data on the Internet allows attackers to create a very accurate profile of that person. This profile, combined with resources available on dark web, could help a hacker to impersonated someone and take advantage of his/her information. For example, knowing the middle name, the year and the place of birth of a person would be enough to locate and buy a social security number on the dark web. This hacker can now access corporate systems and divisions that request a social security number for identification.
Digital footprint management
Just like people should be aware of the management of their digital footprints, companies need processes and tools to manage their own. A large company has numerous websites, social media accounts, IP ranges, ASN (Automatic System Number), databases, repositories, cloud storage servers and other Internet-oriented assets. There are generally many more assets that the company does not know, such as ad-hoc sites and services, temporary quality control environments (which often remain permanent) and all kinds of Internet-oriented services, which were probably created by old employees, but now they're forgotten.
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