Fulfills Step 4 of GSUSA Senior Cybersecurity Basics badge requirements.
Info Needed for the badge requirements: Modularity is the idea that parts of a system can be separated and recombined. Modularity helps protect your computer by keeping parts of the system separate so they can work independently. If there’s an issue, it’s easier to identify and fix without affecting other parts. It also prevents problems, like malware, from spreading and allows stronger security for individual components, like requiring extra authentication for sensitive data. Plus, updates can be made to one part without disrupting the whole system.
Items Needed
- Large sheets of paper (one for each team).
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers to share.
Instructions
- Split scouts into two teams. Each team works together to design a detailed castle on their large sheet of paper. Teams include security features in their castle to defend it from potential attackers (e.g., moat, drawbridge, walls, towers, sentries, etc.).
- Each team presents their castle to the group, highlighting the security features they added.
- The leader keeps track of how many layers of security each team included in their design to tally the total for each team. The leader judges if each layer is a separate system.
- Only separate systems of defense count for each tally. (i.e. if there are holes for shooting arrow which could later be used for pouring hot oil through – that would only count as one as the system is the holes, which has the bonus of multiple uses.)
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