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Cybercrime is also known as computer crime as it involves the use of electronic device as a medium to perform illegal activities, such as commuting online fraud, phishing scams, intellectual property, personal data breach, identity theft and also intrusion cases like hacking and web defacements. Cybercrime fundamentally alters the nature of a traditional offline criminal act. Given the rapid growth in cybercrime, cyber security awareness in Malaysia has neither received sufficient attention nor has the importance of security been investigated, especially among school students. The ProtecKIDS V3 used a survey approach whereby each individual student is required to answer a set of Likert-scale questionnaire and the accumulated marks can be immediately calculated to indicate their understanding towards cybercrime and cyber security. The main objective of ProtecKIDS V3 is to measure the level of cyber security awareness among the school students. ProtecKIDS V3 includes the key elements of cyber security with the purpose of encouraging the environment that do not tolerate with cybercrimes. By this, ProtecKIDS V3 also aims to prevent the occurrence of cybercrimes. The ProtecKIDS V3 is useful to the society as it promote cyber security awareness. Importantly, the key elements included in ProtecKIDS V3 are easily understood by the school students which help to encourage the environment that proactively fight against various type of cybercrimes. In addition, ProtecKIDS V3 also may serve as a cyber security prevention mechanism since the results can be immediately obtained. The immediate result from ProtecKIDS V3 enables school management to react efficiently and effectively. It is crucial for the school management to measure the level of cyber security awareness among the students in order to take proactive actions towards preventing and mitigating the occurrence of Cybercrimes.