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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OCN London has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and OCN London awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OCN London.
The OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Software Engineering with Cybersecurity develops advanced programming and software development skills alongside specialist knowledge in cybersecurity principles and practices. Learners gain experience in ethical hacking, intrusion detection, secure system design and software project management, preparing them for roles that require both development capability and security awareness. The qualification supports progression into cybersecurity-focused software engineering careers or further higher-level study.
These are the units OCN London 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OCN London. It does the teaching and the mapping. OCN London sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Ethical Hacking Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the phases of ethical hacking and the approaches available to a cybersecurity professional.
- Identify and evaluate vulnerabilities in computer systems, networks and web applications.
- Test and find solutions to vulnerabilities in computing systems, networks and web applications using ethical hacking techniques.
- Understand issues in ethical hacking, including legal and professional responsibilities.
Incident Response and Intrusion Detection Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key concepts of intrusion detection systems and methodologies.
- Understand what constitutes evidence of malicious behaviour in network traffic patterns.
- Collect and analyse digital evidence for incident response and forensic analysis purposes.
- Apply the concepts and features of intrusion detection, prevention and incident response strategies in a practical context.
Object-Oriented Design and Implementation Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental object-oriented design (OO) principles (such as encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism) and concepts (such as classes, objects and message passing) and describe their importance in software reuse, and maintenance, explaining the benefits of OO programming.
- Use a suitable programming language to develop an efficient and reusable OO software application, applying practical skills in OO development.
- Implement appropriate underlying data structures to store and manipulate data in an OO program, selecting and utilising suitable data structures.
- Understand the benefits of software reuse and the limitations of using object-oriented software applications, evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of OO programming.
Project Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse an outline of a problem brief and determine a specification, plan, processes, resources, and tools to undertake a programme of work for the project.
- Apply professional, social, legal, and ethical codes of conduct, practices and responsibilities and safety/security related issues related to your project work.
- Understand the key concepts of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- Deploy appropriate theory, practices, and tools to analyse, specify, test, implement and evaluate systems, using appropriate development approaches to scope, time-manage and organise a project.
Software Project Management Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse and evaluate the factors contributing to IT ventures' success (or failure) at both the project and organisational level, identifying key determinants of project outcomes.
- Identify and reflect on the actions or measures that may be taken to minimise the failure of a software project, proposing strategies for risk mitigation.
- Understand the software life cycle, its processes, and application, demonstrating knowledge of software development methodologies.
Web Development Real unit · OCN London
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the components, processes and technologies behind an interactive web application, demonstrating knowledge of web development architecture.
- Develop an interactive web application using modern tools and techniques, applying practical skills in web development.
- Understand responsive applications and assess the quality of the interface of a web based interactive application, evaluating user experience and design principles.
- Understand the importance of security and demonstrate how security techniques can be applied to an interactive web-based application, implementing measures to protect against vulnerabilities.
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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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Carry out information security intrusion detection activities
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Carry out secure software development activities
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Contribute to secure software development activities
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Manage information security intrusion detection and analysis activities
- Standard
Manage secure software development activities
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 187 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
Senior Incident Response Engineer
This work can lead to running detection and response for a whole organisation, as a Director of Incident Response or Head of Security Operations. It can also lead to a senior security leadership role such as Chief Information Security Officer.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OCN London 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
Ethical HackingIncident Response and Intrusion DetectionObject-Oriented Design and ImplementationProjectSoftware Project ManagementWeb Development
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 “Object-Oriented Design and Implementation” 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.
- Lead it Apply
“Software Project 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 intrusion detection activities
- Carry out secure software development activities
- Contribute to secure software development activities
- Manage information security intrusion detection and analysis activities
- Manage secure software development 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 Ethical Hacking, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will explore the phases and methodologies of ethical hacking, including legal and ethical considerations. They will identify and evaluate vulnerabilities in computer systems, networks, and web applications, and apply ethical hacking techniques to test and remediate these vulnerabilities.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for OCNLR Level 5 Diploma in Software Engineering with Cybersecurity
6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OCN London.
- Ethical Hacking
- Incident Response and Intrusion Detection
- Object-Oriented Design and Implementation
- Project
- Software Project Management
- Web Development
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