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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer The Learning Machine has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and The Learning Machine awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from The Learning Machine.

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01What it is

It allows learners to develop knowledge of cyber security and digital forensics, including security tools, threat analysis, and online system defence. This qualification is for individuals seeking an introduction to the digital technology sector.

These are the units The Learning Machine registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with The Learning Machine. It does the teaching and the mapping. The Learning Machine sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
It teaches you to understand and analyse the components of systems targeted by cyber attacks. You'll evaluate the methods and motivations behind cyber threats, focusing on hardware, software, and network vulnerabilities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the different components of a system that are vulnerable to cyber attacks.
  • Analyse the specific parts of a system that are commonly targeted by attackers, detailing their vulnerabilities.
  • Evaluate the methods and motivations behind cyber attacks on systems, explaining why certain systems are targeted.
Applying and Deploying Security Tools and Best Practice Real unit · The Learning Machine
This unit provides learners with knowledge of cyber security tools and best practices. You'll identify various tools, plan and practise using cyber forensic tools, evaluate their effectiveness, and consider legal and ethical issues in cyber security.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the tools used for cyber security.
  • Plan the use of common cyber forensic tools.
  • Use common cyber forensic tools in practice.
  • Evaluate the tools used in cyber security.
  • Recommend best practices for cyber security.
Securing and Defending Online Systems Real unit · The Learning Machine
This unit covers researching, planning, developing, and testing cyber security systems for websites or servers. You'll evaluate system effectiveness against common threats and understand the roles within cyber security teams.

What you'll be able to do

  • Research and document the features of a functional cyber security system.
  • Plan the construction of a cyber-safe website or server, outlining security measures.
  • Develop a cyber-safe website or server, implementing planned security features.
  • Test the developed system against common cyber threats to identify vulnerabilities.
  • Evaluate the overall effectiveness of the implemented cyber security system in mitigating threats.
Understanding Cyber Security and Online Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
You'll develop knowledge of various cyber threats, analysing their characteristics and evaluating their impact on individuals and organisations. The unit covers malware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, and emerging cyber security trends.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the wide range and diverse nature of cyber threats that exist.
  • Analyse and detail the characteristics of different types of cyber threats that are currently active.
  • Evaluate the potential impact of cyber threats on individuals and organisations, considering various scenarios.
Understanding of Cyber Security and Online Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
This unit covers the basics of cyber security, including various threats and their implications for individuals and organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the range and variety of cyber threats.
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision

    Standard

  • Carry out digital forensic examination activities

    Standard

  • Undertake Cyber Threat Hunting Assignments

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 22 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Associate Security Analyst

This role can lead to senior security analyst, lead security analyst or staff threat hunter roles, and on to principal security analyst or security manager positions.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 2 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by The Learning Machine rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Analysing and Evaluating Cyber ThreatsApplying and Deploying Security Tools and Best PracticeSecuring and Defending Online SystemsUnderstanding Cyber Security and Online ThreatsUnderstanding of Cyber Security and Online Threats

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Analyst The Analyst · your map-it-properly tutor Illustration
The Analyst In “Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats” you have moved the target from 48 hours to 24. Where does that time come from?
You The team prioritises better, I suppose.
The Analyst Or it comes out of the follow-ups, and reopened cases climb in about six weeks. Let us map it and find out which, before it is a surprise.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

What you leave holding

The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them

Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.

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TLM Level 2 Certificate in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics
  • Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
  • Carry out digital forensic examination activities
  • Undertake Cyber Threat Hunting Assignments
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats, one of this qualification's own units.

Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats Level 2

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Associate Security AnalystVulnerability Assessment AssociateAssociate Vulnerability AnalystSecurity AnalystAssociate SOC AnalystSOC Analyst I

This unit enables learners to understand and analyse the components of systems targeted by cyber attacks. Learners will evaluate the methods and motivations behind cyber threats, focusing on hardware, software, and network vulnerabilities.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Built for TLM Level 2 Certificate in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Learning Machine.

  1. Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats
  2. Applying and Deploying Security Tools and Best Practice
  3. Securing and Defending Online Systems
  4. Understanding Cyber Security and Online Threats
  5. Understanding of Cyber Security and Online Threats
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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