{"id":108795,"date":"2022-03-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/?p=108795"},"modified":"2023-05-15T23:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:12:24","slug":"what-generation-z-can-teach-us-about-cybersecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/security\/blog\/2022\/03\/15\/what-generation-z-can-teach-us-about-cybersecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Generation Z can teach us about cybersecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Girl Security National Security Fellows Program fellow Amulya, a 17-year-old interested in countering online disinformation, said she feels her sense of personal privacy has been largely nonexistent \u201cgrowing up in a media-saturated world.\u201d She believes her sense of privacy was stolen by a combination of mass media, access to tech without education, and an increasing divide among generations, government, and industry around responsible technology. With an online presence from a young age, members of Generation Z, like Amulya, bring personal insight to the cybersecurity conversation about online privacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girl Security<\/a>, the organization I founded in 2016, builds more equitable pathways through learning, training, and mentorship for girls, women, and female-identifying and non-binary young people interested in national security careers. Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of Security, Compliance, and Identity Business Development at Microsoft Security, and I recently spoke about the unique challenges<\/a>, like privacy, that youth confront as digital natives\u2014defined as \u201ca person born or brought up during the age of digital technology.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insights from Generation Z supplement the insights we get from adults and people currently in the workforce<\/a>.  When Ann and I talked about Generation Z, we considered a couple of big questions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n