[Year 12 IT Apps] Try this for an idea..

[Kent Beveridge]

Just tried something out of the blue with my ITApps kids..
Faked a system server virus attack and told them with a straight face!  After getting a buzz from the look on their faces..told them it was a simulated disaster and that they had to write up a recovery strategy!  This little impromptu exercise proved to be a fabbo learning exercise and they were into it!
Here's the cool part...they thought I was serious!
Try it on your class and watch the reaction they give, but give 'em no clues that you are about to do it. It's a great way to find out if they have listened to you.
Enjoy.
KB. 
 
Kent Beveridge,
I.T. co-ordinator
St. Brigids Catholic Sec. College
Horsham
email.. kbeveridge at stbc.vic.edu.au
 
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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au on behalf of Russell Edwards
Sent: Wed 9/5/2007 3:13 PM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 IT Apps] Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of datasecurity management strategies



Sorry for the second post, I forgot to ask:

"criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of data security 
management strategies"

Does anyone know if these are specified anywhere??  I cannot find 
them in the study design. Criteria for other things are specified in 
the glossary, but not for this.   Of course I can tell my students 
what's important in security, but will they be required to list 
actual concisely-worded criteria?  This topic doesn't seem to be very 
amenable to simple criteria, it's more a grab-bag of "what-if's".

Potts talks about integrity, security, ease of retrieval and currency 
of files, but these are actually the study design glossary's measures 
of effectiveness of a file management system, not of security 
management in particular.   I doubt "is secure" would be accepted as 
a criterion for effectiveness of a security system! May as well just 
put "is effective" as an effectiveness criterion!

thanks

Russell Edwards
Whittlesea SC


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