Lessons & Labs

Only Registered Users can download here:

https://teachcyber.org/downloads-for-registered-users/

Hands-on activities are an integral part of the Teach Cyber curriculum. Modules 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 contain lab activities. Slide decks are provided to set the context of the lab and to introduce vocabulary. Lab instructions guide students through the steps of the lab. Some of the labs provide independent practice or a student submission document to complete. A customized Teach Cyber Environment is available on the US Cyber Range. The labs were tested on the Teach Cyber Environment.

Note: The Email Tracking Lab was updated in July, 2024. You can download the updated lab here.

Pricing for the US Cyber Range is available here: https://www.uscyberrange.org/rangepricing

*Please note: Labs in this course use virtual environments on the U.S. Cyber Range (a partner organization of Teach Cyber). While the Teach Cyber teaching materials (and access to the materials) are free, the U.S. Cyber Range is a paid service operated by Virginia Tech University.

Only Registered Users can download modules and lab files.

FREE to Registered Users*

The illustration above was inspired by the artwork of Ketrina Yim for “Teaching Security” (https://teachingsecurity.org/)

Developed By: Dr. Melissa Dark, Dr. Jenny Daugherty, Brandon Milonovich, Nancy Stevens, Dr. Filipo Sharevski, and Dr. Shannon Beck

This is a year-long, introductory cybersecurity course. The overarching goal of the course is to introduce students to the foundational concepts, principles, and tools of cybersecurity. The course is centered on the Cybersecurity Curriculum Guidelines and is thus situated in eight big ideas: ethics, establishing trust, ubiquitous connectivity, data security, system security, adversarial thinking, risk, and implications. After this course, students should understand that cybersecurity has broad implications and ethical reflection and judgment are required. Students should also understand the fundamental cybersecurity principles necessary to determine security requirements and mechanisms. Students will also study historical events and their cybersecurity implications; relevant laws and policies governing data; and economic concerns and risk management trade-offs involved in making cybersecurity decisions from various stakeholder perspectives. Students will challenge assumptions and practice thinking about opposing forces and will employ these techniques to analyze threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks. Students will also evaluate the tools used to connect cyber-physical systems and practice using the encryption techniques needed to secure data across networks.

*Please note: Labs in this course use virtual environments on the U.S. Cyber Range (a partner organization of Teach Cyber). While the Teach Cyber teaching materials (and access to the materials) are free, the U.S. Cyber Range is a paid service operated by Virginia Tech University.