| dc.description.abstract | This thesis focuses on the vocational education programme electrical engineering and computer technology at the upper secondary school level. The aim is to investigate if the pupils attending said course has any need for cyber security competences. In addition, this thesis aims to investigate what solutions already exist for teaching youth cyber security. And lastly the thesis aims to determine what a possible solution could look like for the pupils of electical engineering and computer technology. The study is based on interviews and literature reviews. The interviews provided good insight in whether or not there was a need for cyber security competences. Whilst the literature review was a good baseline for investigating existing cyber security solutions for training youth. From the interviews performed with industry professionals, there was an indication that there was a need for cyber security competences in this educational programme. However, it cannot be clearly stated as there was not enough data, interviewees, to draw a strong conclusion. During these interviews several topics of cyber security were presented. Most notable was privacy, smart home technology, and internet of things (IoT). The main findings from the second goal of investigating existing cyber security programmes, was that there were no programmes that focused specifically on electrical engineering and computer technology, at least none that I could find. However, this goal was also used to determine effective methods for teaching cyber security, and the result here was that the most effective ways of teaching cyber security was in schools. Either through a course made for the pupils, or by teaching cyber security to teachers and allowing them to pass on the knowledge. When determining what a possible cyber security solution could look like, there were the best method would be through a digital web application filled with interactive activities, theoretical and practical. | eng |