UCERTIFY CYBER SECURITY LESSON 1

Why is it important to protect your online identity?

• Because everyone does it.

• Because you will make more friends.

• Because being online is a safe environment.

• Because someone might steal your personal information.

How long can your "digital footprint" last online?

• Forever

• Minutes

• Months

• Hours

Match the following terms with their correct descriptions.

• A platform for people to create social networks or social relations with other people

• Netiquette

• The practice of protecting computers, networks, programs, and data from digital attacks

• Identity

• A set of characteristics or qualities that defines an individual or thing

• Social network

• A set of rules for appropriate behavior while on the Internet

• Cybersecurity

Which term describes bad people who watch and read your personal information online for the purpose of harassing or harming you? (a)  

• Online teachers
• Digital footprints
• Online predators
• Social networkers

If you are leaving traces of personal information about yourself online, available for anyone to obtain, then you are damaging your:

• grades.

• friendships.

• gaming record.

• digital footprint.

One of the most popular online activities — and one that poses the greatest risk to your privacy — is:

• online gaming.

• watching movies.

• social networking.

• checking e-mail messages.

Which of these is the best way to monitor your online presence and how other people see your online presence?

• Ask everyone you know to tell you what they see.

• Make sure you have all your information visible.

• Google yourself.

• Use a password manager.

What is NOT true about your digital footprint?

• Online predators never look at your personal information.

• College admissions offices are not allowed to view this.

• Potential employers can use your history to determine future employment.

• You can erase your digital footprint.

Which of these is a good way to keep your online privacy?

• Use an avatar or picture of some other object.

• Make your posts visible to everyone, all the time.

• Make your hometown, school, and sports team visible in your profile.

• Post your cell phone number online.

(a)   are required by law to be posted for users on social media websites.

• Privacy policies
• They can never change once they've
• The site does not have to inform yo
• You can select which policies you w