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Computers & Digital Literacy · Grade 10

Cybersecurity through Safe Simulations

Through fictional, safe scenarios, learners classify incidents by the confidentiality, integrity and availability they harm, separate threats from vulnerabilities, and score risks with a likelihood × impact matrix. They triage fictional phishing messages and lookalike links, then plan layered defenses: patching priorities, backups that survive ransomware, and clear incident reports. Everything is defensive: recognition, prevention, detection, response and recovery.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 110 minutes
  • Defensive security check: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Explain confidentiality, integrity and availability, and classify incidents and controls by the property they affect.
  • Distinguish assets, threats and vulnerabilities, and use a likelihood × impact matrix to score and prioritize risks.
  • Recognize phishing indicators and lookalike links in fictional messages, and choose safe triage and reporting actions.
  • Explain defense in depth, prioritize patches, and judge whether backups would survive ransomware.

Lessons

  1. What security protects: C, I and A 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Threats, vulnerabilities and risk 7 steps5 practiceabout 28 min
  3. Phishing triage simulation 7 steps5 practiceabout 30 min
  4. Layers, patches, backups and reports 8 steps5 practiceabout 27 min
  5. Defensive security check 10 questions at the end

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