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Cyber Challenge Activities

Designate an hour, a day, or more during April 10-14 to take action to improve cyber hygiene and learn how to continue to keep yourself safe and your devices secure! 

You can take the Cyber Challenge with your corporation or school, or as an individual. Start by checking out the Cyber Challenge checklist. These are simple activities to keep you and your devices safe.

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And your organization may have additional activities lined up for your Cyber Challenge! What’s important is that we all take action and make a dedicated effort to make our cyberspace safer and more secure.

We’ll be adding activities and resources to this page over the next couple of months leading up to the week of the Cyber Challenge, so stay tuned!

Click a flag below to see country-specific activities and resources:

Australia

Australia

Activities & Resources

The Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Learn Hub offers practical cyber security advice, tips and tricks to help stay secure online and shares cyber security learning resources, such as:

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Phishing emails and texts: www.cyber.gov.au/learn/threats/phishing

Update your device: www.cyber.gov.au/learn/update-devices

Set secure passphrases: www.cyber.gov.au/learn/passphrases

Turn on multi-factor authentication: www.cyber.gov.au/learn/mfa

Set up and perform regular backups: www.cyber.gov.au/learn/backups

Cyber Security Quiz: www.cyber.gov.au/learn

India

Activities & Resources

During India’s presidency of G20, India is running a campaign titled ‘Stay Safe Online’ aimed at creating awareness among citizens including specially-abled persons to stay safe in an online world on the widespread use of social media platforms and rapid adoption of digital payments. As India is making significant efforts towards becoming a trillion-dollar digital economy, the campaign focuses on sensitizing users of all ages about online risk & safety measures and promoting cyber hygiene thereby reinforcing the cyber safety of citizens. Citizens of all age groups, covering rural and urban areas, with special emphasis on children, students, women, teachers, faculty, senior citizens, specially-abled persons, officials of Central & State Governments etc. are invited to participate in the Stay Safe Online campaign.

Learn more: https://www.mygov.in/staysafeonline/ 

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Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA) is a multilingual web portal, a separate user friendly section for children, students, government official, police, system administration and women for spreading awareness in cyber security.

Learn more: https://www.infosecawareness.in/ • https://infosecawareness.in/quiz 

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CyberPeace Foundation is the world’s first non-profit civil society organization and think tank of cyber and policy experts with the vision of pioneering CyberPeace initiatives to build collective resilience against cybercrimes & global threats of cyber warfare. As a pioneer in CyberPeace advocacy, CPF is on a mission to promote “Technology for Good” beyond borders. CyberPeace Foundation is involved in Policy Advocacy, Research and Training related to all aspects of CyberPeace and CyberSecurity. Key areas of CyberPeace Foundation work are in Technology Governance, Policy Review and Advocacy, Capacity and Capability creation and building through partnerships with various government organizations, academic institutions and civil society entities.

Learn more: https://www.cyberpeace.org/

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DSCI Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence: https://ccoe.dsci.in/

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The India Cyber Games (ICG) is a part of the International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) Initiative. The mission of the India Cyber Games (ICG) is to bring talented cybersecurity athletes, coaches, universities, and corporate sponsors together to build an elite India Cyber Team (ICT) for the annual International Cybersecurity Challenge (ICC) as well as other events.

Learn more: https://indiacyberteam.in/ 

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India

Japan

Activities & Resources

In Japan, “Cybersecurity Awareness Month” is conducted from February 1st to March 18th, as Japan’s activities for the QUAD Cyber Challenge Campaign. Various campaigns such as promotion events by Japanese celebrities, seminars for business leaders and releasing short movies target wide range of generations from teenagers to elderlies, while a competition for cybersecurity skills among staffs of government agencies, namely “capture the flag”, takes place. Through these events, basic actions to be taken by each person will be promoted. Please see the detail in the Japanese special website.

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