What is cyber security?
Quick answer
Cyber security is the practice of protecting systems, devices and data from unauthorised access, covering both technical controls and the human habits that defeat them.
Students audit the security of their own connected builds and write a short threat model for each.
In context
Most real incidents start with a person, not a zero-day, which is why the behavioural side belongs in the curriculum from primary school.
By senior school students can reason about threat models rather than memorising password rules.
In a NASCA classroom
Students audit the security of their own connected builds and write a short threat model for each.
Related terms
Student data privacy
Student data privacy covers how a school and its partners collect, store, share and delete information about children, under frameworks such as India's DPDP Act, the GDPR and FERPA.
Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is a network of everyday devices fitted with sensors and connectivity, so they can report data and be controlled remotely.
Blockchain
A blockchain is a shared record of transactions, copied across many computers and chained together cryptographically so that earlier entries cannot be altered unnoticed.