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 The Learning Machine has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- 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.
The Level 2 Certificate in Cyber Security Principles is a vocationally-related qualification. It is designed for learners to gain an understanding of cyber security, online threats, and the application of security tools.
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, 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 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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
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
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
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
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.
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 Secure Development
- Standard
Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
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Carry out infrastructure penetration testing
- Standard
Carry out threat intelligence assessments
- Standard
Carry out web application penetration testing
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Conduct Secure Development, Under Supervision
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Contribute to Routine Threat Intelligence Tasks
- Standard
Manage digital forensic examination activities
- Standard
Plan Penetration Tests
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 47 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
Vulnerability Assessment Associate
This work can lead to senior vulnerability analyst or security engineer roles, then on to managing a vulnerability management programme, and eventually to leading offensive security work across teams.
See the whole journeyThe 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 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.
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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 Secure Development
- Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
- Carry out infrastructure penetration testing
- Carry out threat intelligence assessments
- Carry out web application penetration testing
- Conduct Secure Development, Under Supervision
- Contribute to Routine Threat Intelligence Tasks
- Manage digital forensic examination 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 Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will analyse and evaluate cyber threats by understanding system components vulnerable to attack. The unit covers identification of hardware, software, and network vulnerabilities, and explores attacker methods and motivations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for TLM Level 2 Certificate in Cyber Security Principles
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Learning Machine.
- Analysing and Evaluating Cyber Threats
- Applying and Deploying Security Tools and Best Practice
- Securing and Defending Online Systems
- Understanding Cyber Security and Online Threats
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