With the rapid development of techniques such as cloud computing,mobile application and IoT,information technology nowadays has been fully integrated into our daily life.The need for security professionals and experts is growing due to the emerging security related issues.Information security education is the key to solve these problems.This paper gives a systematic description of the recent progress on research of information security teaching,which includes the difficulties faced by information security teaching,the issues to resolve,course curriculum design and course construction,teaching method research and practical experimental construction.Finally,future direction for information security teaching is given.