AC9TDI10P13 Year 9 Technologies

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Technologies provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

develop cyber security threat models, and explore a software, user or software supply chain vulnerability

Elaborations

• 1 using a data flow diagram to understand how private information moves through a system and when it would be the most likely target of a cyber attack, for example mapping how data moves between the user and server when using a web application, and identifying that sending the data in plaintext would make it susceptible to a man-in-the-middle attack
• 2 exploring the impact of a cyber security threat by systematically following the steps involved in bypassing a known vulnerability in their own software, for example manually changing the value stored in a login cookie to that of another user to observe the impact of unauthorised access on the system
• 3 explaining how techniques like prompt injection can change the intended behaviour of generative AI models; for example, carefully chosen inputs can circumvent any protections or limitations that may have been included in the design of the model

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