For Estonia, cybersecurity is far too important to leave only to the experts. Nearly every government services is available online, while Estonia has to be constantly vigilant to cyber and other threats from neighbouring Russia. So Estonian children are exposed to programming and taking charge of IT systems even before they learn to read and write. “Cybersecurity became part of the curriculum, and now there are exercises in this for young people and organisations...All schools choose a specialisation and some have chosen cybersecurity,” he explained. Some people go out into the forests to learn how to shoot, and we learn and teach how to do the cyber stuff,” Priisalu said.

Source: The Irish Times May 28, 2021 15:00 UTC