Questacon Cyber Castle Challenge - Quick Play Guide

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Season 1: Defend your assets Season 2: Evolving Threats

Season Summary Season Summary
Students identify threats and begin to Students identify and respond to new types
build their castle defences to protect of threats and learn to detect weaknesses
their assets. in their defences.

Youtube Season Introduction Youtube Season Introduction

Season 1 - Defend Your Assets Season 2 - Evolving Threats

Cyber Learnings Cyber Learnings

- Valuable data: such as documents, - Understand that threats can change.
online identity, banking details,
- Testing for weaknesses in your network’s
usernames, password etc., are assets.
defences is important.
- Threats are people or things trying to
- Gathered information (intelligence) is
steal assets (valuable data).
vital to improve defence strategies.
- Cyber security is protecting assets
from threats.

Season 1 How students earn Season 2 How students earn

achievements: achievements: achievements: achievements:
1. Identify Assets 1. Bring a tamed 1. Gather Signals 1. Observe an alert
chicken into Intelligence. on the virtual
the coop. castle.
2. Identify Threats 2. Spot a fox. 2. Gather Human 2. Get information
Intelligence. from the castle
3. Minimise Attack 3. Repair all the
farmer.
Surface. inner castle
walls. 3. Manage Evolving 3. Place a scare-
Perimeter. a-saurus near
4. Construct 4. Start building
an outer farm.
Layered the outer walls.
Defences. 4. Penetration 4. Use a cyber fox
Test for to test the castle
Vulnerabilities. defences.

Season Debrief Season Debrief

Discuss the following: Discuss the following:
How did the chickens and foxes relate to How did fox behaviour change this
cyber security? What are some types of season? Why is it important to be aware
assets you have online? What are some of evolving threats? How might you find
types of real-life threats that may try information about threats in real-life?
to steal your assets? It was important to test your defences
In the challenge you had a way to defend for weaknesses to improve your defence
your chickens from foxes. What steps can strategies. How do you currently protect
you take to defend your online assets your online assets? What weaknesses do
from threats? these strategies have? How could you
improve your protections.

Code to Launch* Season 2 Code to Launch* Season 3

/tag @s add tXR4i8ivsG /tag @s add PNst51uDa9

*To launch the next season, in game press T, then type the code and press enter.
 Questacon Cyber Castle Challenge - Quick Play Guide

Season 3: Kingdom expansion Season 4: Who can you trust?

Season Summary Season Summary
Students discover the importance of Students detect, respond to and train
networks for sharing resources and work others to recognise suspicious behaviours.
to protect and implement access controls
for those in their extended network.

Youtube Season Introduction Youtube Season Introduction

Season 3 – Kingdom Expansion Season 4 – Who can you trust?

Cyber Learnings Cyber Learnings

- Networks share and receive data. - The behaviour of others online might
threaten personal safety.
- Networks can be secured using access
controls. - Shared information about threats and
defences strategies improves cyber
- There are different types of access
security.
controls: such as passwords,
passphrases, pins, biometrics, - Train others to recognise scams,
Multifactor Authentication, and phishing, and social engineering
firewalls. attempts for better network security.

Season 3 How students earn Season 4 How students earn

achievements: achievements: achievements: achievements:
1. Access Identity 1. Install a scanner 1. Encrypt your 1. Give chickens
Management. in the castle. assets. disguises.
2. Defend your 2. Give a travelling 2. Detect strange 2. Teach the farmers
wider network. trader a cyber behaviour. to recognise
fox. scams.
3. Security 3. Teach the castle 3. Identify 3. Teach a farmer
Awareness passcode to a fraudulent to recognise a
Training. travelling trader. behaviour. suspicious trader.
4. Patch a Breach. 4. Fill a tunnel 4. Rebuild after a 4. Rebuild the castle
created by a malware attack. walls after a
digging fox. major breach of
defences.

Season Debrief Season Debrief

Discuss the following: Discuss the following:
In this season, you had to defend your What kind of scams did you come upon in
outer villagers, or a wider network. What the challenge? Have you or your family
computer networks do you know of? How can fallen prey to, or heard about, online
you control access to and secure computer scams?
networks? During this season you supported others to
This season you had to be careful with identify scams or suspicious behaviour.
inputting your castle passcode. Why is What steps can you take to support family
it important to have a strong password? and friends in identifying and being aware
What could you do if someone learns your of scams?
password?
Code to Launch* Season 4
/tag @s add 3acqesntuo