Cybersecurity and Technical Support 110

GCO1: Students will demonstrate communication and operational skills specific to supporting and securing digital technology.

Overall Expectations:

SCO1.2: Students will articulate challenges and hypothesize solutions to complete projects and resolve cybersecurity events

Specific Expectations:

Articulate challenges

that may involve people and/or technology
to analyze where cybersecurity vulnerabilities exist

Hypothesize solutions

that may be involved in completing projects and resolving cybersecurity events
to determine possible strategies to mitigate cybersecurity vulnerabilities
to proactively and reactively mitigate cybersecurity risks involving people and technology by keeping a record of possible solutions for mitigating a variety of cybersecurity risks

MediaSmarts Resources

Online Relationships: Respect and Consent
Privacy Rights of Children and Teens
Secure Comics

GCO2: Students will use computational thinking skills to analyze challenges and to create and evaluate solutions

Overall Expectations:

SCO2.4: Students will analyze data, identify risks and troubleshoot by using algorithms

Specific Expectations:

Algorithmic Thinking

to evaluate and defend a cybersecurity target by analyzing data, and by identifying and mitigating risks
to create a repeatable list that will help investigate and solve issues related to cybersecurity events
to explain how algorithms are used by online systems, and the potential inaccuracies and vulnerabilities

Analysis

to troubleshoot a cybersecurity event, including vulnerability management
to design a troubleshooting guide to help others respond to cybersecurity events
to evaluate and improve a troubleshooting guide

MediaSmarts Resources

GCO3: Students will develop and demonstrate skill in managing computers, networks and cybersecurity threats

Overall Expectations:

SCO3.3: Students will develop and demonstrate skills to identify and counter cybersecurity threats.

Specific Expectations:

Cybersecurity Threats

Demonstrate use of proper threat terminology
Understand and implement post-threat detection and analysis (including the order of operations)
Determine and implement appropriate operating system security settings
Determine and implement password security techniques

Vulnerability Assessment

Understand and identify network vulnerabilities (e.g. public Wi-Fi hotspots)
Understand and identify computer vulnerabilities (e.g. Bluetooth on personal devices)
Identify common communication encryption (e.g. DES, MD5, RSA, SHA-1)

Penetration Testing

Identify the technical means an attacker might use to gain access to a computer or network

MediaSmarts Resources

Secure Comics

Overall Expectations:

SCO3.4: Students will communicate an understanding of cybersecurity events, causes, impacts, responses, and outcomes using technical and non-technical language.

Specific Expectations:

Identify and analyze the people and their roles in cybersecurity events

Consider potential victims and stakeholders
Consider potential perpetrators and sponsors
Consider potential motives of all parties
Consider the actions, as well as causes and effects of the actions
Persuade an audience about your interpretation of a cybersecurity event using data and inference