Digital and Technology Solutions Specialist: Cyber Security Technology

This module explores the skills needed to understand, and work in, the complex multi-sourced environment that supports business change. Focusing on the strategic management of leading-edge technology, you will examine the organisational structure of IT, including systems integrators and consultancy, and gain an overview of the IT consulting world, its principles and practice.

This module will cover the structure, development, leadership and management of teams that plan and deliver projects. It will deal with relations, interactions and communications within and beyond the team. You'll also consider high performance, self-directed, dispersed and virtual teams.

During this module you will explore the nature of innovation and the need for it in the management of a modern organisation. It will examine the complex process of organisational change as it occurs in specific organisational contexts. Furthermore, you will address how to introduce innovation best practice within an organisation according to its particular context.

The module will explore the fundamental security services employed by modern computer and networking systems. The aim of the module is to present the ways in which computer and network systems can be attached and penetrated by exploiting their vulnerabilities. It also aims to introduce different types of security services that have been used to enhance the security of those systems. 

During this module you will study and apply fundamental concepts of cyber security, leading to the development of knowledge and skills to protect organisational assets against existing and emerging threats.

In part, the module covers:

• symmetric and asymmetric encryption
• steganography
• principles of cryptanalysis
• message confidentiality
• message authentication
• security protocols (such as IPsec VPNs, SSL/TLS)
• security in wireless systems
• the application of cryptographic techniques to authentication and identity management.

However, the focus will be on the analysis, design and implementation of protocols, tools and techniques that achieve these three goals in secure computing:

• confidentiality
• integrity
• availability

The module also includes study of tools and techniques for vulnerability assessment and incident management. In particular, the module will provide opportunities for you to develop knowledge and skills to identify, understand and analyse vulnerabilities, thereby identifying appropriate protection mechanisms.

Furthermore, the module will introduce knowledge and skills required to undertake digital forensics tasks including collecting, processing and preserving digital evidence to aid such tasks. The module covers in part the IISP security skill groups:

• C (Security Architecture)
• E (Operational Security Management)
• F (Forensics).

All core modules exercise aspects of J (Professional Skills) - in this case , the students will undertake some group work.

This module provides an introduction to security operations and assurance of systems, networks, data and user identities, which is an essential aspect of organisation and information systems. This module provides an introduction to security operations and assurance of systems, networks, data and user identities, which is an essential aspect of organisation and information systems. New threats are emerging as digital technologies permeate into most aspects of work and social life and in transactions between parties opening potential for fraud, deception and corruption.

You will develop an understanding of:

• information assurance
• incident management
• audit
• business continuity.

The module covers:

• IISP Security Skill Groups D (Information Assurance Methodologies),
• F.1 (Incident Management),
• G (Audit Assurance and Review)
• H (Business Continuity Planning and Management).

Towards the end of your apprenticeship, the University will agree a business-related project with you and your employer. This will be based on your job role and academic content of your course. The agreed project will present a typical business task, appropriate for demonstrating the skills and knowledge on the standard. This module is a pre-gateway to the End Point Assessment (EPA).

This module aims to capture and develop your portfolio, which will present relevant evidence from real-work projects (excluding Apprenticeship Project). The portfolio you develop through this module will be used to help you answer questions in the professional discussion part of the End Point Assessment.

This work-based module will require you to continuously reflect and identify areas for further development in order to demonstrate that you have applied the knowledge, skills and behaviours in the apprenticeship standard, under the guidance of work mentor and university tutor.