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K-12 Educator Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise
Practice safer decisions before a real cybersecurity incident occurs. Draw a scenario, make the call, face an inject, then compare your response with course-aligned guidance — built for educators, campus leaders, and school staff.
How to Play
Designed for educators, campus leaders, coaches, counselors, librarians, office staff, and other school employees. Play as teams or use the scenarios for individual reflection.
Form Teams
Use 2–6 teams of 3–5 people. Pick a spokesperson and, if desired, a recorder.
Draw a Scenario
Use the generator or select a card from the 30-scenario library. Everyone works from the same brief.
Deliberate
Take 5–8 minutes. Use the CyberSmart Response framework below and commit to a first action.
Reveal the Inject
Open the complication. Teams get 2–3 minutes to adjust their plan without erasing the original decision.
Present and Score
Teams present. Award 0–2 points each for protection, verification, action, reporting, policy, and learning.
Reveal Guidance
Compare the team plan with the course-aligned response, discuss gaps, then let the winning team roll the die.
Click the die to roll for team movement. The winning team rolls after each round.
CyberSmart Response
Every response should answer these six questions. The goal is not to become a security engineer; it is to make a safer, role-appropriate decision and know when to ask for help.
What is at risk?
Name the people, data, accounts, devices, services, or school operations you are protecting.
What feels wrong?
Identify warning signs, missing information, pressure tactics, or assumptions that need to be checked.
How will you confirm?
Use a trusted path that does not depend on the suspicious message, caller, link, QR code, or request.
What happens first?
Stop risky activity, choose the safest first action, preserve useful observations, and report when appropriate.
What process applies?
Use district-approved tools, access methods, reporting routes, backups, and recovery procedures.
What changes next?
Articulate the lesson, Connect it to current practice, and Extend it into a concrete next action.
The Six Functions
Scenarios map to the NIST CSF 2.0 functions so teams can connect classroom decisions to a recognized national framework.
Scenario Generator
Filter by module, role, or difficulty — or leave everything on “Any” for a random draw from the full library.
Set your filters and generate a scenario.
All 30 Scenarios
Each scenario maps directly to one course capacity-matrix indicator. Open a card to view the situation, discussion prompts, delayed inject, response guidance, and framework connections.
Capacity Matrix Coverage
The library is intentionally balanced: six scenarios per module, one for each capacity indicator, for complete 30-item coverage.
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