DF3: Lesson 6: Coordinating a Cybersecurity Incident Response Team
Could your students lead under pressure during a digital crisis?
Lead your cyber unit to a dramatic finale - where students must respond to a live digital crisis with professionalism, precision, and strategic leadership.
This KS3 / lower secondary computing lesson places students at the heart of a major cyberattack simulation targeting a global humanitarian organisation. Acting as forensic analysts, policy advisors, and public spokespeople, they must reconstruct the breach, assess insider threats, draft new policy, and deliver a real-time stakeholder briefing.
The scenario challenges students to make critical decisions under pressure — just like real-world cyber response teams. With built-in artefacts, role sheets, guided tasks, and ethical dilemmas, every student is pushed to apply their knowledge with confidence and clarity.
The lesson ends with a press-style debrief, ensuring students reflect on leadership, trust, and the human stakes behind cybersecurity decisions.
Through this, students uncover:
• How cyberattacks exploit weaknesses in authentication protocols, access control, and system policy
• Why digital forensics and timeline reconstruction matter in critical breach response
• How ethical transparency and policy reform support trust, recovery, and future risk prevention
• What it takes to brief non-technical stakeholders during a digital emergency
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DF3: Lesson 6: Coordinating a Cybersecurity Incident Response Team
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