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Brand new! Rock Defenders

Rock Defenders is here! Created for the Gibraltar Digital Skills Foundation by Cyber Security Challenge UK, and now brought to you in CyberLand, powered by the NCA.

Play Rock Defenders and work your way through eight starter challenges, finishing up with one final challenge to put your cyber security knowledge to the test. Select each challenge by opening the map. Good luck!

Cyber Challenge in a Box

Learn to deliver Cyber Challenge in a Box to your students. Sign up for our next Train the Trainer workshop for instruction on game play, access to the full set of materials and personal licence to replicate and use as many times as required.

Cyber Challenge in a Box is an immersive experience designed to introduce the concept of cyber security to KS2 and KS3 students. Over the course of an afternoon, students must sift through evidence, solve clues and finish puzzles in a race against time. The aim of the game – apart from thwarting an imminent cyber attack on the UK – is to inspire students to pick STEM subjects for GCSE, demonstrate the lines drawn in ethical hacking and give them the key skills they need to stay safe online.

Feel the impact of CyberAttack!

The IT team at Trojan Horse Adventures theme park is worried. They’ve been working hard with Sales and Operations to launch a brand new vertical drop ride ‘MakesYouWannaCry’ in time for summer. A recent DDOS attack and media reports of a cyber incident in the US with one of their core systems suppliers has got them spooked. And now, there’s something wrong with the website….

Introducing CyberAttack! An immersive group training experience to develop your teams’ understanding of the organisational-wide impact of a cyber attack.

How can we solve the cyber security skills crisis?

Current reports indicate that 50% of all businesses in the UK have a basic cyber security skills gap. This means these businesses don’t have the internal skills necessary to carry out the tasks outlined in Cyber Essentials.⁠
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Our Chairman, Dr Robert Nowill, spoke to cyber security company, Secon Cyber, about the evolution of the cyber skills shortage, the ongoing need to ensure students have maximum exposure and accessibility to opportunities that introduce them to STEM and cyber security subjects, plus more about what we’re doing to plug this gap.

Girlguiding Glos partners with The Cyber Trust

Moments that make the mission worthwhile!

Girlguiding Gloucestershire has partnered with The Cyber Trust www.thecybertrust.org, promoting online safety using the SpeakOut! app. As part of this activity, they’re creating a brand new badge to demonstrate internet safety.

Check out the latest news and updates on their website, where you’ll also find inspiration for activities that Brownies, Guides, Rangers, and individuals can take part in.

Test and develop your skills in CyberLand

Do you want to learn about key cyber concepts like firewalls, protection against malware and phishing emails?

Play the CyberLand game, save the city and learn about cyber security. There’s no shortage of opportunities in cyber security, but we’re facing a global a shortage of cyber skills. Test and develop yours, and unlock a new door to your future career!

Available to play for free until end of September 2021.

A Real Opportunity for Lasting Change

“Until cyber security secures a place on the curriculum, intervention must come from independent operators. Our Schools Programme aims to pick these young people up, inspire them and get them heading off on the road to lifelong, financially rewarding careers.”

Margaret Jones, General Manager for Cyber Security Challenge UK, discusses why cyber security holds the key to changing the state of the nation and enabling true upward mobility.

SpeakOut! by The Cyber Trust

We’re pleased to support The Cyber Trust as an official partner and its brand new internet safety app, SpeakOut!

SpeakOut is the result of an exciting collaborative effort involving The University of Gloucestershire and the Gloucestershire Constabulary, driven by a growing need for support specifically targeting 10-14 year olds as they face increased challenges as preteens and young teenagers growing up in a highly connected environment.

Breaking into cyber security

Check out our growing set of resources for students and teachers designed to inspire young talent to pursue cyber security and STEM subjects.

Women in Cyber

Get inspired by our interview series with inspirational female role models in cyber security. Keen to help close the gender gap? Nominate our next featured woman in cyber here!