Upon successful completion of the Qualifi Level 5 Extended Diploma in Networking and Cyber Security, you will achieve several key learning outcomes that prepare you for advanced roles in the field. These include:

Cyber Security Threat and Risk

• 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.

Network Security and Data Communications

• Understand how computers and digital devices communicate with one another over a network.
• 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 network security and systems resilience tools, terminology and models.

Database Security and Computer Programming

• Understand the broad range of information security controls to protect databases.
• Understand types of database categories of control.
• Understand the underpinning concepts and models of cloud-based storage solutions.
• Understand the relationship between computer programming and computer hacking.
• Understand the ‘interpreted’ general purpose programming language, Python.

Incident Response, Investigations and Forensics

• Understand the role and composite parts of Incident Response as a business function and how CERTS operate.
• Understand aligned task/task forces for Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and Crisis Management.
• Understand how major computer incidents are formally investigated.
• Understand laws and guidance in relation to the conduct of planned and structured major incident investigations.

Security Strategy: Laws, Policies and Implementation

• Understand the concept of strategy, strategic management, planning and buy-in in relation to cyber security.
• Understand how legislation, formal industry standards, training and accreditations 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 network.

Physical IT Networking

• Apply the components of physical networking.
• Understand the components and interfaces between different physical networking attributes.
• Install security protocols in a physical network.

Cryptography

• Understand key cryptographic principles and modes.
• Understand the standards, regulations and laws that apply to business and government organisations in relation to encryption.
• Design an encryption plan and courses of action for a given organisation.

Digital Investigations and Forensics

• 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 importance of safeguarding evidential integrity in digital investigations.

System Administration

• Understand system administration.
• Perform user management and file system management.

Network Routing and Switching

• Understand switching.
• Perform routing.

Network Design and Administration

• Understand network design.
• Configure a local area network and a VLAN.
• Administer a network.