How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer NCFE has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and NCFE awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from NCFE.
This qualification is designed to give learners the knowledge and associated skills and behaviours required to work in a variety of roles in cyber security. It will also prepare learners to progress to further study and apprenticeships in this area.
These are the units NCFE 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 NCFE. It does the teaching and the mapping. NCFE 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
Cyber security architecture Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore networking model and protocols
- Apply the characteristics of digital system components, implementing security controls
- Apply the concepts of cryptography
Cyber security management Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse employer and end user requirements
- Apply principles of incident investigation in cyber security management
Legislation, policies and procedures in cyber security Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the fundamentals of common legislation and standards applicable to cyber security
- Examine common factors of security management
- Apply the fundamentals of IT service management (ITSM)
Principles of cyber security Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Examine principles of cyber security within organisations and society
- Explore factors that contribute to security functionality in cyber security
- Apply programming and scripting languages to design or end user requirements
Risk assessment in cyber security Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Examine operating system security features
- Assess risk management in cyber security
Threat intelligence in cyber security Real unit · NCFE
What you'll be able to do
- Explore common cyber security threats and attack techniques
- Examine vulnerabilities and mitigations
- Analyse the horizon of cyber security trends
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
Carry out information security architecture activities
- Standard
Carry out the security risk assessment for the client and its stakeholders
- Standard
Carry out threat intelligence assessments
- Standard
Contribute to information security architecture activities
- Standard
Direct Security Architecture Development
- Standard
Direct information security architecture activities
- Standard
Directing Information Risk Assessment and Management
- Standard
Manage Information Security Risk Assessment and Management Activities
- Standard
Manage information security architecture activities
- Standard
Manage threat intelligence activities
- Standard
Not specified (nan)
- Standard
Undertake Cyber Threat Hunting Assignments
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 307 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
Cybersecurity Specialist Manager
This role can lead to a Chief Information Security Officer post, a VP of Engineering or Technology role, or a Head of GRC and Compliance position.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by NCFE 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
Cyber security architectureCyber security managementLegislation, policies and procedures in cyber securityPrinciples of cyber securityRisk assessment in cyber securityThreat intelligence in cyber security
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 Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration - Draft the real one Create
You do “Legislation, policies and procedures in cyber security” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.
- Lead it Apply
“Cyber security management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.
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.
- Carry out information security architecture activities
- Carry out the security risk assessment for the client and its stakeholders
- Carry out threat intelligence assessments
- Contribute to information security architecture activities
- Direct Security Architecture Development
- Direct information security architecture activities
- Directing Information Risk Assessment and Management
- Manage Information Security Risk Assessment and Management Activities
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 Cyber security architecture, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will explore networking models and protocols, applying characteristics of digital system components to implement security controls. The unit also covers the application of cryptography concepts to enhance cyber security architecture.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for NCFE Level 4 Diploma: Cyber Security Engineer
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NCFE.
- Cyber security architecture
- Cyber security management
- Legislation, policies and procedures in cyber security
- Principles of cyber security
- Risk assessment in cyber security
- Threat intelligence in cyber security
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