CyberSafeSchools Academy – What our Work experience offers
CyberSafeSchools Academy – What our Work experience offers
CyberSafeSchools Academy
CyberSafeSchools Academy has the goal to spread cyber security awareness among students in secondary education while providing students with work experience that will give them the necessary skills for protecting both their own and their schools’ personal data.
Helping students learn how to avoid digital threats
CyberSafeSchools Academy has the goal to teach secondary school students online safety so they can protect their personal data online, this includes teaching students cyber protection techniques and ways to identify cyber attacks before they take place, this is taught to students by giving them the chance to have real world experiance in cyber security through providing them with the oppertunity to assits in implementing security for their schools and allowing them to work on case studies of previous cyber-attacks.
Once students have finished with their work experiance at CyberSafeSchools they will have gained problem-solving and technical skills to prepare them for future careers in cybersecurity.
Protection techniques taught at our academy
These are some of the protection techniques taught by the cybersecurity professionals at CyberSafeSchools Academy to help students better protect their schools personal data.
implementing and maintaing a firewall
implementing anti-virus
cryptography methods
Creating data backups
Teaching the different cybersecurity threats for secondary schools
Trojan horse
Trojans are malware that disguises itself as a useful application.
Ransomware
Ransomware is a form of maleware that encypts data until a ransom is payed.
Compromised passwords
Compromised passwords result in futher security attacks and legal issues for companies involved.
SQL injection
SQL injections are a type of cyber-attack where a cyber attacker uses a SQL query to gain unauthorised access to data.
Phishing
Phishing is a tactic used by cyber attackers to make the victim had over their personal data by pretending to be a trusted source.
Identity theft
Identity theft can take place as soon as an attacker gains any acess to your personal data allowing them to achive finacial gain or commit a crime in another persons name.
If you’re interested in a cybersecurity career or in improving the cyber safety of your school then click here to learn more about the academy.
About the author: This post was written by Jack Davies, a student on the CyberSafeSchools Academy virtual work experience programme. The Academy provides secondary school and college students with structured, hands-on experience in cybersecurity and digital marketing. Find out more about CyberSafeSchools →