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Week 4: Bringing it all together: Cyber Resilience Policy Development    In the final week of the Module students will bring together the previous three sessions learning to develop holistic policy solutions. The objectives are  a) for students to understand and be aware of how technology, law and (inter)national politics interact  b) for students to begin to be able to analyse a major cyber incident from a holistic, non-technical perspective  c) for students to confidently… Read more

Week 3: “An attack, or not an attack: that is the question”: Cyber Incidents and international law    Students will be introduced to the Laws of Armed Conflict (LOAC) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL). These are vast topics, even setting aside the challenges of relating cyber security issues and incidents to these bodies of law. The objectives therefore are to  a) introduce students to LOAC and IHL, and set out basic foundations for these bodies… Read more

  This module has primarily been developed to further enhance the skills of the learners to take part in, for example, cyber competitions and challenges including the Cyber 9/12 College and Universities competition.    Participants will explore the challenges a country may have when dealing with a national cyber security incident from a non-technical, political, economic social and legal perspective.   Participants will also develop their public speaking and presentation skills to discuss cyber security issues… Read more

Week 2: Beyond the Middle East: The International Relations’ impacts of cyber incidents    Students will examine the international impacts and consequences of major cyber incidents, using Stuxnet as an example. The objectives are to  a) introduce the concepts and theories of the field of “international relations”;   b) place cyber incidents in that international context, understanding that technological events can have non-technological consequences beyond their immediate vicinity;   c) enable students to explain and discuss the… Read more

Students will examine the technical aspects of a major cyber security incident with international consequences. Stuxnet is the example being analysed. The objectives are to   a) to learn about the technical elements of Stuxnet;   b) learn about and understand how Stuxnet was deployed and the implications of this for national infrastructure;   and c) allow students to practise describing and explaining these technical elements to a non-technical audience of decision-makers.  go to 9/12 home page Read more

These resources have been created in collaboration with teachers from Barrhead High School and Bearsden Academy. They are designed to be easy to use, with clear definitions and concise language. The lessons are designed to introduce and reinforce that learners need to: understand risks and potential harms develop skills and strategies to reduce risk have strategies in place to manage or report potential harms This approach is based on the work of this literature review… Read more

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This page contains links to articles and papers exploring the risks of ‘screentime’ and social media and the lack of data and evidence supporting its purported impact on mental health, particularly children and young people: The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness? (nature.com) OII | Study finds screen time – even before bed – has little impact on teen well-being (ox.ac.uk) Do smartphones really cause mental illness among… Read more