QUALIFI
Level 5
QN: 610/3296/7
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Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Cyber Security
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by QUALIFI. Classified as a Vocationally-Related Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 1440 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 5
Awarding Body
QUALIFI
Syllabus Units
11 Units
Guided Hours
1440 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Communications and Incident Management
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the physical and human resources required to manage a major suspected cybersecurity incident
- Be able to apply Business Continuity Management to major incident planning and response
- Understand how Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management are integrated into a suspected major cyber-enabled incident
- Be able to evaluate the potential impact of NOT planning crisis communications and incident response
2
Cryptography
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand key cryptographic principles and modes
- Understand the standards, regulations and laws that apply to business and government organisations in relation to encryption
- Be able to design an encryption plan and courses of action for a given organisation
3
Cyber Security Threat and Risk
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand complex business cyber security threats and risks.
- Understand recent mega-breaches and explain malware and ransomware attacks.
- Understand how threats and malicious hackers are advancing and developing customised intrusion tools.
4
Cyber Security Threats and Risks: Banking and Finance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the threats and risks facing traditional and emerging services.
- Understand the architectural structures of traditional and emerging financial markets.
- Understand how payment systems connect to underpinning financial services architecture.
- Understand how cryptocurrencies connect to underpinning financial services architecture.
5
Cyber Wars
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how nation-states are potentially engaged in cyber defence and offensive capability strategy.
- Understand the motivation and causes behind nation-state-linked cyber attacks and breaches.
- Understand how private sector industry has been targeted by potentially state-sanctioned cyber-crime groups and/or armies.
- Understand how CNI has been targeted by state-backed cyber-crime groups and/or armies.
6
Database Security and Computer Programming
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the broad range of security to protect databases.
- Understand database categories of control.
- Understand the underpinning concepts of cloud-based storage solutions.
- Understand the relationship of computer programming and computer hacking.
- Understand the “interpreted” general-purpose programming language Python.
7
Digital Investigations and Forensics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the core principles of digital investigations
- Be able to apply the types of tool that support professional digital investigations at a strategic level
- Be able to plan for an investigation and forensics team
- Understand the importance of safeguarding evidential integrity in digital investigations
8
Incident Response, Investigations and Forensics
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role and composite parts of Incident Response of business function and how CERTS operate.
- Understand how aliened task/task forces for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and crisis management.
- Understand how major computer incidents and formally investigated.
- Understand laws and guidance in relation to the conduct and planned structure of major incident investigations.
9
Network Security and Data Communications
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how computer and digital devices communicate with one another over a net
- Understand, at a strategic level, how computer networking, web applications, and software can be exploited.
- Understand methods of security prevention and systems hardening.
- Understand key net
- work security and systems resilience tools, terminology and models.
10
Security Strategy: Laws, Policies and Implementation
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the concept of strategy, strategic management of planning and buy-in, in relation to cyber security.
- Understand how legislation, formal industry standards, training accreditation support cyber security.
- Understand how to implement
- Plan, Do, Check and Act security and risk management policies.
- Understand the future legal and technical environment and the impact on cyber security planning and digital risk management.
- Understand how to plan and design a security audit for a cyber net
11
Strategic Leadership
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the role of senior leaders and strategic leadership
- Be able to evaluate the management streams and performance monitoring mechanisms that relate to information security, including by considering
- Understand how threat and risk identification and management is integrated into C-Suite considerations and governance
- Understand how data protection legislation impacts considerations of strategy-setting and strategic leadership
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 610/3296/7
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- QUALIFI
- Qualification Type
- Vocationally-Related Qualification
- Operational Start
- Oct 2023