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What Is Cyber Security?

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Discover why cyber security matters, what we are trying to protect (personal data, money and accounts), the three big goals of keeping information safe, and an overview map of the threats explored across this unit.

15 slides.

Lesson outline

  1. Hook — Who Gets Attacked?
  2. Do Now — Recall & Connect
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Cyber Security — What It Is and What It Is Not
  5. What Are We Actually Protecting?
  6. Quick Check — The Master Key
  7. The Big Three: Keeping Data Safe
  8. Check — Which Goal Was Broken?
  9. A Map of the Threats
  10. Defence in Depth
  11. Hinge Check — Is Antivirus Enough?
  12. Task — Classify the Incident
Unit bundleCyber Security
Part of: Cyber Security: the whole unitEvery resource in the unit in one zip.

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