Staff and students of Hugh Baird College in Liverpool were treated to some fascinating insights into the world of Cyber Security by the North West Regional Organised Crime Units (NW ROCU) last week.
Facilitated by The CyberHub Trust, Phil Byrom from the Cyber Choices’ PREVENT team gave a presentation about Cyber Threats and Opportunities. This was then followed by an interactive hands-on Cyber `Table Top’ Training exercise, presented by Louisa Murphy from the PROTECT team.
This fun and engaging activity provides each `table’ with its own Business, comprised of a factory and a separate office, along with all the relevant resources, IT and people who would run the business. These are all represented by Lego figures.
Teams were then allocated budgets and a five-year plan and asked to manage the spend and build the business. At every stage they were presented with challenges and threats, both cyber and physical. Teams had to fend-off data theft, physical damage to property, hacking and other cyber crimes, keeping losses and damage to a minimum.
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