Year 11 Computer Science ATAR: Securing data in transit
Students learn how HTTPS, SSL/TLS, certificates, VPNs, Wi-Fi security and checksums keep data safe and correct as it crosses open connections.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Cyber Security journey. All 12 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (12)
1
Protecting data at rest
2
Protecting data in transit
3
Why encrypted data is useless to an interceptor
4
HTTP compared with HTTPS
5
Secure socket layer (SSL) protocol
6
SSL certificates and the handshake
7
HTTPS and the padlock
8
Virtual private networks (VPNs)
9
Securing a Wi-Fi network
10
Why data is checked after transmission
11
Checksum
12
What data integrity means in transmission
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