Cyber Security
Internet and Its Uses · 3 question types
Exam Frequency Analysis
Past paper frequency (2018 to 2024)
This topic accounts for approximately 8% of your exam marks.
Threats (phishing, pharming, malware, DDoS, brute-force) and the matching protection methods appear in almost every paper.
Cyber security is the protection of computer systems, networks and data from threats such as theft, damage and unauthorised access.
A threat is anything that tries to steal, alter, damage or block access to data, or to gain control of a system without permission. This topic has two halves: the threats an attacker can use, and the solutions that keep data safe from them. For every threat the exam expects you to describe what it is and how it works; for every solution it expects what it does and how it protects the data.