Cyberfirst Overview - Audio Description Video Transcript

- [Narrator] Text, join CyberFirst. CyberFirst will inspire, support and develop the UK's potential cybersecurity talent. QA, Smallpeice: Dare to imagine, National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ. People sit at tables and work on laptops.

- I have an interest in cybersecurity, particularly in encryption and I believe this course is a great opportunity to hone and improve my skills.

- What interests me most about cybersecurity is when you find a vulnerability in the code and then you try and solve the problem.

- I was interested in what makes products vulnerable and how hackers can find ways into devices and networks.

- I wanted to come on this course because the knowledge would be good for whatever I might do.

- [Narrator] Fast motion footage of London.

- [Ciaran] Britain is one of the most digitally advanced economies in the world. We've been pretty good at top end national security, defending ourselves at the deepest threat.

- [Narrator] Text, Ciaran Martin, CEO, National Cyber Security Centre.

- But there's so much crime, there's so much individual small-scale attacks that just add up to risks to the economy, risks to prosperity, risks to just people's ability to go about their daily lives. And we do need to get better at that. So what this is about is about getting in there now with the bright young talent that we have in these courses.

- [Narrator] Ronnie Smyth, CyberFirst tutor.

- CyberFirst programme is designed to target children at various different ages as they're making their decisions. So year nine, looking towards GCSEs, year 10, looking towards A Levels, and year 12 and 13, looking towards their university of decisions.

- [Narrator] David Bowen, CyberFirst tutor.

- I would say to anybody who is thinking about joining CyberFirst, it's an excellent opportunity to develop cybersecurity skills, regardless of what career path they choose to take.

- [Narrator] Gary Lundon, CyberFirst tutor.

- [Narrator] Students on the course, they've absolutely loved it. Yeah, they've stayed behind every break time, after class to ask more questions.

- [Narrator] Scott Isaac, CyberFirst tutor.

- They've got that real inquisitive drive to push it further and that's where they can draw on our experience to ask us questions or to maybe ask how they could take an exploit or a technique further and gain more out of it.

- [Narrator] Students work with tutors in classrooms.

- Once we learned about the forensics yesterday, I found that that was amazing. I really liked the kind of recovery of data and thinking about getting onto hard drives and things. I really liked that. I'd love to explore that further. The course has really helped to reinforce and extend on the knowledge I have for my GSCEs.

- This course made it more clear about what choices I want to do for my A Levels. I've improved my skills on this course and that has pointed me towards a career possibly in cybersecurity.

- [Narrator] Join CyberFirst. CyberFirst will inspire, support and develop the UK's potential cybersecurity talent. www.smallpeice.org.uk, QA, Smallpeice: Dare to imagine, National Cyber Security Centre, a part of GCHQ.