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
- Index or note card for each scout.
- 2 large sheets of paper.
- Colored pencils, crayons, or markers to share.
Instructions
- Split scouts into two teams. Each team writes one security question per scout on an index or note card. Questions can be:
- Personal (e.g., “What’s your favorite color?”).
- Factual (e.g., “What is the state bird of Virginia?”).
- Teams sort their question cards in order of difficulty, starting with the easiest and progressing to the hardest.
- Teams organize their questions to create a layered security system. The goal is to make each layer progressively harder to pass while ensuring all questions are reasonable and answerable.
- Run a test of the security questions.
- One team lines up with their question cards. This line represents the “security system.”
- The other team progresses down the line, answering each question in order.
- Scouts move to the next layer if they answer correctly.
- If they miss a question, they are “locked out.”
- Scouts who answer all questions correctly pass through the system successfully.
- Switch roles and repeat to test the other team’s security system.
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