Alexis Ramanjulu is KGUN 9's Cochise County reporter. Send your story ideas to Alexis at [email protected].
According to Forbes, more than 300 million people were victims of cyber attacks in 2023. That's why the Arizona Department of Homeland Security is educating local students on how to stay safe online.ADHS is hosting it's first all-girl cyber security summit in Cochise County at Willcox Middle School, giving rural students the opportunity to learn how to be cyber secure.Sixty-two students from Cochise, Pima and Santa Cruz counties attended Friday's summit.
Rebecca Bhasme, a science, coding and robotics teacher at Willcox Middle School worked with the organizers to have a summit in southern Arizona for schools that can't get to Phoenix for the larger cyber security event coming this fall.Bhasme says it's important to bring outside resources to rural communities.'Hackers want everyone's information,' Bhasme says.
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