NDA Cyber Security Apprentice - Level 4

During this apprenticeship you will develop the following technical competencies:

• Discovering (through a mix of research and practical exploration) vulnerabilities in a system
• Analysing and evaluating security threats and hazards to a system or service or processes
• Researching and investigating some common attack techniques and recommending how to defend against them
• Undertaking a security risk assessment for a simple system and proposing basic remediation advice
• Sourcing and analysing a security case (e.g. a Common Criteria Protection Profile for a security component) and describing what threats, vulnerabilities or risks are mitigated and identifying any residual areas of concern
• Developing a simple security case without supervision
• Identifying and following organisational policies and standards for information and cyber security and operating according to service level agreements or employer-defined performance targets

Technical Knowledge and Understanding:

In addition, this apprenticeship will teach you about-

• The importance of Cyber Security to business and society
• Concepts such as security, identity, confidentiality, integrity, availability, threat, vulnerability, risk and hazard, and also how these relate to each other and lead to risk and harm
• Security assurance concepts and how assurance may be achieved in practice (e.g. penetration testing and extrinsic assurance methods)
• Building a security case - deriving security objectives with reasoned justification in a representative business scenario
• Cyber security concepts applied to ICT infrastructure – can describe the fundamental building blocks and typical architectures and identify some common vulnerabilities in networks and systems
• A range of attack techniques and sources of threat
• The principles of cyber defence, developing your ability to describe ways to defend against attack techniques
• Relevant laws and ethics and development and understanding of the role of criminals and other UK and international laws
• The existing threat landscape, developing your ability to describe and apply relevant techniques for horizon scanning
• Threat trends – developing your ability to describe the significance of identified trends in cyber security and understand the value and risk of this analysis
• The importance of ensuring compliance with GDPR (Data Protection).

• Communication skills
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Problem solving skills
• Number skills
• Logical

• x5 GCSE's including English & Maths GCSE or equivalent, grade 9 - 4 (A*- C) (Essential)
• ICT such as a BTEC Extended Diploma A Level or equivalent, grade 180 credits (extended diploma) (Essential)