Abstract
The information literacy and related information education have relatively long history, theoretical ground and recognition by professional and non-professional public. There are still new activities which strive to develop these concepts.
It is clear that not every issue which may be assigned to the information education can be deeply taught within the scope of the general and further education. Therefore this article explains why courses developing information literacy should give significant attention to security issues and which of them should be emphasized.
Reasoning is based on selected generally accepted standards and models, strategic documents and, of course, theoretical findings from the scholarly literature. The theory is supplemented by an example of learning in one area of information security, which is a part of a comprehensive university course of information literacy.