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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Qualifi Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Qualifi Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Qualifi Ltd.
The Qualifi Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security is a vocationally-related qualification. It focuses on developing knowledge and skills in areas such as incident management, digital forensics, cryptography, and strategic leadership within the cyber security sector.
These are the units Qualifi Ltd 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Qualifi Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Qualifi Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Communications and Incident Management Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the physical and human resources required to effectively manage a major suspected cybersecurity incident.
- Apply Business Continuity Management (BCM) principles to the planning and response phases of a major incident.
- Understand how Disaster Recovery (DR) and Crisis Management are integrated into the response to a suspected major cyber-enabled incident.
- Evaluate the potential impact of failing to adequately plan for crisis communications and incident response in the event of a major cybersecurity incident.
Cryptography Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key cryptographic principles and modes of operation, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing, and digital signatures.
- Understand the standards, regulations, and laws that apply to business and government organisations in relation to encryption, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, and industry-specific regulations.
- Design an encryption plan and courses of action for a given organisation, considering factors such as data sensitivity, compliance requirements, and business needs.
Digital Investigations and Forensics Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of digital investigations, including legal and ethical considerations.
- Apply different types of tools that support professional digital investigations at a strategic level.
- Plan for the establishment and management of an investigation and forensics team.
- Understand the critical importance of safeguarding evidential integrity throughout digital investigations.
Strategic Leadership Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of senior leaders and strategic leadership in information security, including setting the tone from the top and championing security initiatives.
- Evaluate the management streams and performance monitoring mechanisms that relate to information security, including by considering key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics.
- Understand how threat and risk identification and management is integrated into C-Suite considerations and governance, including risk appetite and tolerance.
- Understand how data protection legislation impacts considerations of strategy-setting and strategic leadership, including data breach notification requirements and accountability.
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.
- Standard
Assist in Implementing Digital Forensic Processes
- Standard
Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
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Carry out digital forensic examination activities
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Contribute to digital forensic examination activities
- Standard
Deliver digital forensic services
- Standard
Develop and implement cryptographic methods
- Standard
Direct Digital Forensic Examination Activities
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Direct Information Security Governance: Establish and Maintain
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Direct Security Architecture Development
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Direct information security architecture activities
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Direct information security governance activities
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Direct information security testing activities
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Lead Forensic Examination
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Manage digital forensic activities
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Manage digital forensic examination activities
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Not Specified (Governance of Information Security)
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Respond to and recover from cyber security breaches
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.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 444 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
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
This work can lead to advising organisations or governments on cyber security policy, or to investing in and mentoring cyber security start-ups. Some go on to write, speak or teach on the subject.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Qualifi Ltd 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
Communications and Incident ManagementCryptographyDigital Investigations and ForensicsStrategic Leadership
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.
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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.
- Assist in Implementing Digital Forensic Processes
- Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
- Carry out digital forensic examination activities
- Contribute to digital forensic examination activities
- Deliver digital forensic services
- Develop and implement cryptographic methods
- Direct Digital Forensic Examination Activities
- Direct Information Security Governance: Establish and Maintain
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 Communications and Incident Management, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the physical and human resources necessary for managing major cybersecurity incidents, including the roles and responsibilities involved. Learners will apply Business Continuity Management principles to plan and respond effectively to such incidents.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Qualifi Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Communications and Incident Management
- Cryptography
- Digital Investigations and Forensics
- Strategic Leadership
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