ACARA 7-8 Digital Technologies: Protecting accounts and devices
Students learn practical measures that reduce cyber threats, including strong passphrases, updates, antivirus, firewalls, privacy settings and how to respond to a suspected compromise.
One content description (AC9TDI8P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 7–8 — Networks and Cyber Threats journey. All 14 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (14)
1
Mitigation measures for threats, vulnerabilities and risks
2
Reporting and deleting a phishing message
3
Strong passwords
4
Passphrase
5
Unique passphrase for each account
6
Password manager
7
Keeping software updated
8
Antivirus software
9
Firewalls
10
Privacy settings
11
Using public Wi-Fi safely
12
Security controls: prevent, detect, respond
13
Responding to a suspected compromise
14
Checking whether an account appears in a data breach
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