Description
Qualification Overview
This Level 5 Diploma in Cyber Security is designed for individuals who are pursuing or already working within the field of cyber security and digital risk management. The programme aims to equip learners with advanced technical skills, analytical thinking, and a strong understanding of cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and security frameworks across various sectors. It supports both academic and professional development, helping learners unlock their own potential and contribute meaningfully to organisational security. Accredited at Level 5 with 120 credits, this qualification also provides a route to university-level top-up programmes in risk or cyber security management.
Units
- Cryptography
- Digital Investigations and Forensics
- Communications and Incident Management
- Strategic Leadership
Learning Outcomes
- Understand key cryptographic principles and modes
- Understand the standards, regulations and laws that apply to business and government organisations in relation to encryption
- Understand the core principles of digital investigations
- Apply the types of tool that support professional digital investigations at a strategic level
- Plan for an investigations and forensics teams
- Understand the physical and human resources required to manage a major suspected cyber security incident
- Apply Business Continuity Management to major incident planning and response
- Understand the role senior leaders and strategic leadership
- Evaluate the management streams and performance monitoring mechanisms that relate to information security
- Understand how data protection legislation impacts considerations of strategy-setting and strategic leadership
Entry Requirements
- Learners who possess qualifications at Level 4 and/or;
- Learners who have some technical and risk management work experience in a computing or
security business environment and demonstrate ambition with clear career goals; - Learners who possess a Level 5 qualification in another discipline and want to develop their
careers in cyber security and/or risk management.
