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 3 certificate focuses on cyber security principles. It allows learners to develop an understanding of cyber threats and the application of security tools. The qualification is suitable for those seeking to enhance their skills in digital technology.
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
Analysis and Understanding of Cyber Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different parts of a system that are typically targeted in cyber attacks.
- Analyse and detail the specific components of a system that are vulnerable to attack.
- Evaluate the methods used by attackers to exploit system vulnerabilities.
- Evaluate the reasons why certain systems are targeted by cyber attacks.
- Understand the potential consequences of successful cyber attacks on systems.
Extended Project: Defending an Online System Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Research a working cyber security system to understand its components and functionality.
- Plan the development of a cyber safe website or server, considering security requirements.
- Develop a cyber safe website or server, implementing planned security measures.
- Test the developed system against common cyber threats to identify vulnerabilities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the implemented security measures in protecting the system.
The Application and Deployment of Security Tools and Best Practice Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the tools used for cyber security and their purpose.
- Plan the use of common cyber forensic tools for specific security tasks.
- Use and practice with common cyber forensic tools to identify and address security vulnerabilities.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of different cyber security tools.
- Recommend best practices for the application and deployment of security tools.
Understanding of Cyber Security and Online Threats Real unit · The Learning Machine
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and variety of cyber threats that exist.
- Analyse and detail the different types of cyber threat currently in operation.
- Evaluate the potential impact of cyber threats on individuals.
- Evaluate the potential impact of cyber threats on organisations.
- Understand the methods used to mitigate cyber threats.
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 infrastructure penetration testing
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Carry out threat intelligence assessments
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Carry out web application penetration testing
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Contribute to Routine Threat Intelligence Tasks
- 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 11 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
Security Analyst
This work can lead into deeper technical specialism, into leading a security team, or into shaping security strategy for an organisation.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 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
Analysis and Understanding of Cyber ThreatsExtended Project: Defending an Online SystemThe Application and Deployment of Security Tools and Best PracticeUnderstanding 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 Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Extended Project: Defending an Online System” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Analysis and Understanding of 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.
- Carry out infrastructure penetration testing
- Carry out threat intelligence assessments
- Carry out web application penetration testing
- Contribute to Routine Threat Intelligence Tasks
- Plan Penetration Tests
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 Analysis and Understanding of Cyber Threats, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop an understanding of cyber threats by identifying targeted system components and analysing vulnerabilities. The unit covers common attack vectors and evaluates the motivations and impacts of cyber attacks on systems.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for TLM Level 3 Certificate in Cyber Security Principles
4 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by The Learning Machine.
- Analysis and Understanding of Cyber Threats
- Extended Project: Defending an Online System
- The Application and Deployment of Security Tools and Best Practice
- Understanding of Cyber Security and Online Threats
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