Cyber security: Can cyber insurance combat cyber crime?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 computer science and ICT.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of cyber security experts Dr Jason Nurse, from the Institute of Cyber Security for Society at the University of Kent, UK, and Jamie MacColl, from the UK’s Royal United Services Institute. Thet are investigating whether companies can use cyber insurance to help mitigate the threat from cyber criminals.

• This resource also contains an interview with Jason and Jamie and offers an insight into careers in cyber security. If your students have questions for Jason and Jamie, they can send them to them online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Jason and Jamie will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Jason and Jamie’s research and challenges them to translate Jason and Jamie’s academic research about ransomware into policy recommendations for the government and cyber security advice for the public.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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