Cyber security in your primary school SL901

Develop your understanding of cyber security and provides advice on the best methods for ensuring a safe and secure online environment in your school.

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Summary

As our reliance on the internet grows, it’s important that we protect ourselves from cyber-attacks. From understanding how cyber-attacks are developed, to prevention methods; this short course supports schools in developing understanding of cyber security and provides advice on the best methods for ensuring a safe and secure online environment in your school.  

Carry out an audit of how your school ensures a safe and secure online environment. Identifying what works and next steps for your school, as you progress through the training. Explore potential threats to your schools and look at external and internal examples. You will investigate how best to prevent against cyber-attacks, whilst reviewing real-life examples and how they could have been overcome.

Review effective online safety policies, which include cyber, IT safety and data protection and consider where the responsibility for these lies within your setting.

You will explore how to: 

• Defend yourself against phishing
• Create strong passwords
• Secure your devices
• Report incidents
• You will consider acceptable use policies, coverage of Privacy and Security strands in the curriculum and explore resources available for classroom learning and to support families

 

Who is it for?

This course is for primary class teachers and subject leaders

What topics are covered?

• Introduction to cybersecurity – you will explore what cybersecurity is, what threats are posed from using the internet and the prevention methods of how to overcome these threats.  
• Threats and preventions – you will go deep into understand how threats are developed and what they aim to achieve. You will gain understanding of how to prevent against threats.
• Threats and preventions – you will go deep into understand how threats are developed and what they aim to achieve. You will gain understanding of how to prevent against threats.

How will you learn?

Live interactive remote session with an experienced practitioner

How long is this course?

90 minutes 

Outcomes

By the end of the course, you will:

• understand what cybersecurity is and its importance when using the internet
• know some of the threats to cyber security and the prevention methods available
• be able to support learning around privacy and security in your school