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<\/a>Her new textbook, \u201cSecurity Essentials,\u201d will become part of ATC\u2019s curriculum next year and her first book, \u201cPrinciples of Cybersecurity,\u201d is currently used there.<\/p>\n
She is the only ATC teacher to have authored a text in Technical and Career Education.<\/p>\n
\u201cLinda is an amazing teacher and a national leader in the teaching of cybersecurity,\u201d said Sara Lockett, Director of Technical and Career Education.<\/p>\n
Published by Goodheart-Willcox,<\/strong> \u201cPrinciples of Cybersecurity\u201d is in schools across the country. Several years ago, the publishers asked Lavender what sort of book would help her students most, and she said it would be good to have a cybersecurity text tailored to high school students. They didn\u2019t have a book like that, but an editor for the company soon called her back to ask if she\u2019d consider authoring one.<\/p>\n She had never written a book before, but she knew she was bringing something special to the table.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that I teach high school matters,\u201d she said. \u201cIn many cases you have people with technical knowledge who can write a decent book. But if you\u2019re not applying it to the real world and listening to students\u2019 questions and their needs, you\u2019re missing something. I didn\u2019t make assumptions, because I knew my students may not know some business terms, like \u2018compliance\u2019 or \u2018cyberwarfare.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n Lavender was a programmer for local IT companies before she started her Virginia Beach City Public Schools career in 1997. She\u2019s been at ATC since it opened about 20 years ago. To make sure she was giving her students the best education, she earned a master\u2019s degree in cybersecurity at St. Leo University.<\/p>\n She incorporates real-life security scenarios in her books and in her classroom discussions.<\/p>\n Students analyze and give their opinion on issues like how the government decides whether to disclose security risks. They consider whether informing the public outweighs the risk of hackers exploiting the information.<\/p>\n Lavender also teaches cybersecurity at Tidewater Community College, and her latest book is suitable for college as well as high school. Her past students have gone on to work in cybersecurity for the Navy, IBM and the National Security Agency.<\/p>\n Many more students will soon become cybersecurity analysts, cryptologists and chief information security officers \u2013 helping companies and government agencies protect everything from confidential customer information to national security.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the problems we\u2019re having with cybersecurity in the world today are from programmers who weren\u2019t taught how to build secure systems,\u201d Lavender said. \u201cThe training we have at ATC is so valuable. It\u2019s important that our students study real and relevant examples, and come up with solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n And it helps that their teacher loves a good mystery.<\/p>\n \u201cI like puzzles,\u201d Lavender said. \u201cI like solving things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s a clue to the subject of Linda Lavender\u2019s textbooks: \u201cLaw & Order\u201d is one of her favorite TV shows. \u201cIt\u2019s fun to learn how people are bad,\u201d said Lavender, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10032,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10030\/revisions\/10032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vbcpsblogs.com\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}