Introduction to Cybersecurity First Principles

Summary

Learners play a card game to learn the principles of cybersecurity.

Grade

High School

Time Required

30 Minutes

First principles

• Domain Separation
• Process Isolation
• Resource Encapsulation
• Modularity
• Least Privilege
• Abstraction
• Data Hiding
• Layering
• Simplicity
• Minimization

Learning Objectives

• Students will be able to identify Cybersecurity Principles

Materials list

• Gencyber Cyber Realm Card Deck

Learning Facilitation

Each item below is optional.

Warm up Activity

Discuss what first principles are in-general. For example this wikipedia article.

Focused Activity

Split students in groups of 4 or less. Hand a deck of cards to each group. Play Gencyber Cyber Realm card games.

Closure

• Ask students to share any examples related to the 10 first principles. Ask what other principle could be applicable in their example.

Reflection

Review how each cybersecurity first principle was demonstrated in this module.

Assessment

• Students will demonstrate an understanding of Cybersecurity first principles through a game of Jeopardy/Kahoots Game. e.g. Quiz / Presentation / Project / Writing Assignment / Observation / Walk Around / Oral Questioning / Other

Accommodations for students with disabilities

N/A

Extension Activity(ies)

Point students to additional resources in the module.

Module Lead Author

Robin A. Gandhi

Acknowledgements

• A special thanks to Matt Hale for reviews of this module and thoughtful discussions.

License

Nebraska GenCyber
is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Overall content: Copyright (C) 2017-2018 Dr. Matthew L. Hale, Dr. Robin Gandhi, Dr. Briana B. Morrison, and Doug Rausch.

Lesson content: Copyright (C) Robin Gandhi 2017-2018.

This lesson is licensed by the author under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.