Key stage 4 and 5 resources
The following resources are available for teachers, Cyber STEM Ambassadors and students to use.
These resources are aimed at KS4 and KS5 students and equivalent age groups in the home nations. Although every effort has been made to ensure the content is up to date and appropriate, the NCSC takes no responsibility for third party content.
CyberFirst Navigators
Interactive online security resources for 11–14 year olds.
CyberFirst Defenders
A free course aimed at 14 to 15 year-olds. The course is a valuable introduction on how to build and protect small networks and personal devices. It helps increase your awareness of cyber security, whilst also equipping you with a set of relevant practical skills you can apply in your own life.
Then we go a step further to help you visualise yourself in a cyber security career, guiding you to the technology-related qualifications you’ll need.
On our CyberFirst Defenders courses, you’ll learn about:
• Identifying the source and impact of common cyber security threats
• Defining and applying first-line cyber defences
• Constructing, configuring and securing a home network
• Taking steps to manage personal digital footprints
CyberFirst Futures
A free course aimed at 15 to 16 year-olds. Here, you’ll explore advanced cyber security threats to devices, apps and software, then discover ways to prevent them.
The course is an insight into not just the method but the motivation for cyber threat. You’ll explore legislation, study typical behaviours of likely cyber attackers, and apply your understanding of how to protect networks. You’ll even learn to secure personal devices too – and how to do it for the businesses you could work for in the future.
Students on the CyberFirst Futures course will cover:
• Exploring the motivations for cyber attacks
• How to protect yourself from cyber attacks
• Developing knowledge and understanding of networks
• How to protect a network from attack
• How to make resources available and secure to others
Cyber Skills Live
Cyber Skills Live is a series of interactive cyber security and tech skills activities that let young people experience what it could be like to work in a variety of technology roles. This project is supported by Skills Development Scotland.
There are over 20 activities available, each lasting around 30 minutes. No accounts or registration is required and everything can be done within a web browser.
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