  Cyber security is considered a necessity for anyone in todays modern world.
Awareness of cyber security standards and best practices have become mandatory
to safeguard ones child in this day and age. High schoolers today do not
understand cyber security threats due to the lack of parental involvement or
the lack of educational material and courses in high school. This study
developed a framework that addresses the lack of cybersecurity awareness for
high school students. The proposed framework gives a flow of steps to provide
effective awareness approaches for k12. This was achieved using an approach of
creating a functional operational framework that consists of four phases which
are Threats and Attacks Identification, Existing Awareness Discovery, Creating
Awareness Approach, and Awareness Approach Evaluation. The output resulted in a
cybersecurity awareness approach specifically for the k-12 age range, which
leverages cybersecurity emojis. Thus, by exploring this approach, the security
community can enroll and lure teenagers into cybersecurity and raise the degree
of security awareness.
