Cybersecurity Merit Badge
Learn about digital safety, ethical computing, cybersecurity fundamentals, threat analysis, encryption, and protecting systems from attacks to earn this merit badge.
What you'll do
- 1. Safety First View the Personal Safety Awareness “Digital Safety” video (with your parent or guardian’s permission).
- 2. Cyber Ethics Relate three points of the Scout law to things people do on the internet or with computers, phones, and other connected …
- 3. Cybersecurity Fundamentals Describe three types of computer systems that need protecting and explain why.
- 4. Threats & Attacks Define the terms vulnerability, threat, and exploit, and give an example of each that might apply to a website or …
At a glance
- Requirements
- 9
- Category
- Physical Science
- Eagle Required
- No
- Updated
- March 29, 2026