Information Security Education Journal Dongkai Xu 3 2 2016 This paper illustrated that the connotation and principle of secuirty based teaching design in the military ideological and political education courses, and discussed its particularity and content, as well as its status and development. Besides, it pointed out that the secured online ideological and political education should meet the requirement of military modern construction. Only with a stronger security based teaching design in the internet security courses, can we achieve a better practical ideological and political education.