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Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3

Pearson BTEC Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry for Cyber Security Technician (Diploma)

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  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits38
  • Guided learning295 hours
  • Units in this qualification3

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These are the units Pearson Education 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Cryptography and Incident ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll understand principles of incident and event security management, including use of forensic tools and documentation. The unit covers systems to control access to hardware, software, and data, and processes to establish and maintain security.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of incident and event security management
  • Understand the principles of incident and event management
  • Understand the use of forensic tools and documentation for a given system or scenario
  • Apply forensic tools and documentation for a given system or scenario
  • Understand systems and processes to control access to hardware
  • Understand systems and processes to control access to software
  • Understand systems and processes to control access to data
  • Apply systems and processes to control access to hardware
  • Apply systems and processes to control access to software
  • Apply systems and processes to control access to data
  • Understand systems and processes to establish digital identities
  • Understand systems and processes to control digital identities
  • Apply systems and processes to establish digital identities
  • Apply systems and processes to control digital identities
  • Understand cryptographic systems to secure data
  • Understand cryptographic processes to secure data
  • Apply cryptographic systems to secure data
  • Apply cryptographic processes to secure data
  • Understand organisational cyber security related processes
  • Understand network infrastructure for a given system or scenario
  • Understand network resources for a given system or scenario
  • Apply network infrastructure for a given system or scenario
  • Apply network resources for a given system or scenario
  • Use network administration tools
  • Understand the process of risk assessment
  • Carry out a risk assessment for a given scenario
  • Understand the process of planning for continuity of service
  • Produce plans for given incidents to ensure continuity of service
  • Understand exception reporting
  • Understand management reporting
  • Understand the requirements for cyber security audit
Policies and Procedures in Cyber SecurityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of cyber security legislation and policies across the UK, EU, and internationally. You'll also develop skills to produce appropriate cyber security policies and apply vulnerability assessment tools.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand current UK legislation that applies to cyber security issues.
  • Understand current EU legislation that applies to cyber security issues.
  • Understand current international legislation that applies to cyber security issues.
  • Understand cyber security related policies.
  • Produce cyber security policies appropriate for a given scenario.
  • Understand vulnerabilities of IT systems and processes.
  • Use vulnerability tools in vulnerability identification.
  • Use vulnerability tools in vulnerability mitigation.
  • Understand organisational structure related to cyber security.
  • Understand team roles related to cyber security.
  • Understand individual roles related to cyber security.
  • Understand career paths in cyber security.
  • Understand teamworking in cyber security.
Technologies, Principles and Evolving ThreatsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
You'll gain knowledge of network types, software components, and common vulnerabilities. The unit covers threats to IT systems, their impact on organisations and society, and the use of vulnerability tools to identify and manage risks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand a range of network types.
  • Understand software components.
  • Understand common vulnerability exposures.
  • Understand threats to hardware and the impact of these threats on organisations and the wider society.
  • Understand threats to software and the impact of these threats on organisations and the wider society.
  • Understand threats to data and the impact of these threats on organisations and the wider society.
  • Understand vulnerabilities of IT systems and processes.
  • Use vulnerability tools in vulnerability identification.
  • Use vulnerability tools in vulnerability mitigation.
  • Use hardware-based security measures for IT systems.
  • Use hardware-based security measures for data.
  • Use software-based security measures for IT systems.
  • Use software-based security measures for data.
  • Understand new and current evolving threats in the digital world.
  • Understand how a threat evolves over time.
  • Understand how a threat evolves on new areas of concern.

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Cryptography and Incident ManagementPolicies and Procedures in Cyber SecurityTechnologies, Principles and Evolving Threats

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Where this connects

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

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How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Cryptography and Incident ManagementLevel 3

Applied to your own work

Learners will understand principles of incident and event security management, including use of forensic tools and documentation. The unit covers systems to control access to hardware, software, and data, and processes to establish and maintain security.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for Pearson BTEC Level 3 Technical Occupational Entry for Cyber Security Technician (Diploma)

3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.

  1. Cryptography and Incident Management
  2. Policies and Procedures in Cyber Security
  3. Technologies, Principles and Evolving Threats
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

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Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

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  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

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The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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