This paper discusses how at least a basic education in information security is required by everybody. Today’s explosion of information – where misinformation and disinformation are abundant, and generative artificial intelligence (AI) makes distinguishing true facts from falsely created information difficult – requires anyone using, accessing, or sharing information to obtain at least a basic education in information security. Being a subject area in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) category, a thorough education in information security requires a strong mathematical background. This should not prevent the majority of information users, from non-STEM backgrounds, from obtaining a basic level of information security education. While students pursuing careers in information and cybersecurity require a deeper level of education, founded on a strong STEM background, the others, who require only a basic education in information security, so that they may access and share their information securely, may obtain it without a STEM background, by studying only the mandatory STEM concepts behind information security. As the usual bottom-up approach of first providing the mathematical foundation and then building the information security education atop that could overwhelm non-STEM students, instead, this paper proposes a top-down approach for providing basic information security education to non-STEM students. By teaching the mandatory STEM concepts behind information security in a natural manner stemming from day-to-day occurrences rather than deriving them through mathematical laws and processes, this approach allows non-STEM students to successfully obtain the basic information security education they require.