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The Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Networking and Cyber Security develops knowledge and skills in network security, data communications, and cyber security threat and risk. Learners will gain an understanding of network design, administration, incident response, investigations, and forensics. It is suitable for individuals pursuing a career in the digital technology 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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
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.
Cyber Security Threat and Risk Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand complex business cyber security threats and risks, including their potential impact on organisations.
- Understand recent mega-breaches, including the vulnerabilities exploited and the consequences for affected organisations.
- Explain malware and ransomware attacks, including their methods of propagation and potential damage.
- Understand how threats and malicious hackers are advancing, including their evolving techniques and targets.
- Understand the development of customised intrusion tools, including their purpose and functionality.
Database Security and Computer Programming Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the broad range of security measures required to protect databases from unauthorised access and data breaches.
- Understand database categories of control, including access controls, encryption, and auditing mechanisms.
- Understand the underpinning concepts of cloud-based storage solutions, including their security implications and best practices.
- Understand the relationship between computer programming and computer hacking, including how programming skills can be used for both defensive and offensive purposes.
- Understand the “interpreted” general-purpose programming language Python, including its syntax, data structures, and common libraries.
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.
Incident Response, Investigations and Forensics Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and composite parts of Incident Response as a business function and how Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) operate.
- Understand how aligned task forces operate for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, and crisis management in the context of incident response.
- Understand how major computer incidents are formally investigated, including evidence gathering and analysis.
- Understand the relevant laws and guidance in relation to the conduct and planned structure of major incident investigations, ensuring compliance and best practice.
Network Design and Administration Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of network design and their application in different contexts
- Configure a local area network (LAN) according to specified requirements
- Configure a virtual local area network (VLAN) to meet specific organisational needs
- Administer a network, including user management, security protocols, and resource allocation
Network Routing and Switching Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of network switching.
- Understand the requirements of network switching.
- Perform network routing tasks according to specified configurations.
Network Security and Data Communications Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how computer and digital devices communicate with one another over a network.
- Understand, at a strategic level, how computer networking, web applications, and software can be exploited by malicious actors.
- Understand methods of security prevention and systems hardening techniques to mitigate potential exploits.
- Understand key network security and systems resilience tools, terminology and models used in the industry.
Physical IT Networking Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply knowledge of the components of physical networking in a practical context.
- Understand the components and interfaces between different physical networking attributes, including cabling, connectors, and network devices.
- Install security protocols in a physical network to protect against unauthorised access and data breaches.
Security Strategy: Laws, Policies and Implementation Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of strategy and the strategic management of planning and buy-in processes in relation to cyber security.
- Understand how legislation, formal industry standards, and training accreditation support and enhance cyber security practices.
- Understand how to implement Plan, Do, Check, and Act (PDCA) security and risk management policies within an organisation.
- Understand the future legal and technical environment and its potential impact on cyber security planning and digital risk management strategies.
- Understand how to plan and design a security audit for a cyber network, including scope, methodology, and reporting.
System Administration Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of system administration.
- Understand the requirements of system administration.
- Perform user management tasks within a system administration context.
- Perform file system management tasks within a system administration context.
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.
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Assist in Implementing Digital Forensic Processes
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Assist with digital forensic examinations under supervision
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Carry Out Intrusion Detection and Analysis
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Carry out digital forensic examination activities
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Contribute to Information Security Incident Investigation and Management Activities
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Contribute to digital forensic examination activities
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Deliver digital forensic services
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Design Network Infrastructure Solutions
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Develop and implement cryptographic methods
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Direct Digital Forensic Examination Activities
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Lead Forensic Examination
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Lead the Delivery of the Network Design Capability and Strategy
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Manage Intrusion Detection and Analysis
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Manage digital forensic activities
- Standard
Manage digital forensic examination activities
The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 98 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
International Security Incident Response Specialist
This work can lead to roles such as Lead Incident Responder or Staff Threat Hunter, and further on, Incident Response Manager or Principal Forensics Investigator.
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
CryptographyCyber Security Threat and RiskDatabase Security and Computer ProgrammingDigital Investigations and ForensicsIncident Response, Investigations and ForensicsNetwork Design and AdministrationNetwork Routing and SwitchingNetwork Security and Data Communications
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
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- Map a live decision Analyse
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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 Intrusion Detection and Analysis
- Carry out digital forensic examination activities
- Contribute to Information Security Incident Investigation and Management Activities
- Contribute to digital forensic examination activities
- Deliver digital forensic services
- Design Network Infrastructure Solutions
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 Cryptography, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit introduces learners to key cryptographic principles, including symmetric and asymmetric encryption, hashing algorithms, and digital signatures. Learners will understand relevant standards, regulations, and laws, and develop skills to design encryption plans for organisations.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Networking and Cyber Security
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.
- Cryptography
- Cyber Security Threat and Risk
- Database Security and Computer Programming
- Digital Investigations and Forensics
- Incident Response, Investigations and Forensics
- Network Design and Administration
and 5 more in the full unit list below.
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