Level 5 Extended Diploma in Cyber Security
Advance your cyber security skills with the Level 5 Extended Diploma. Study online and progress to the final year of a bachelor's degree in Cyber Security or Computing.
Programme overview
The rationale of the Diploma is to provide a career path for learners who wish to develop their core capabilities within the cyber security and risk management sector. The outcome of the Diploma, which is a recognised UK Qualification, is for learners to develop the cyber security skills required by organisations globally. This Level 5 qualification is potentially unique because it is about ‘cyber security’ as a workplace management discipline. It is therefore a semi-technical qualification that examines technical cyber security measures as well as the management, project management and leadership skills required to organise internal and external business responses to major incidents (or the threat of such).
This qualification consists of six key modules, designed to provide both theoretical knowledge and practical experience in Cybersecurity.
Graduates of this programme can pursue roles such as:
Additionally, students can progress to final year of BSc (Hons) Computer Science or BSc Software Engineering degree further enhancing their qualifications for higher education like MSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence or MSc Project Management
Your progression route
BSc Computer Science / BSc Software Engineering
Areas you’ll explore
- Cyber Security Threat and Risk
- Network Security and Data Communications
- Database Security and Computer Programming
- Incident Response, Investigations and Forensics
- Security Strategy: Laws, Policies and Implementation
- Cyber Security Threats and Risk: Banking and Finance
- Cyber Wars
- Cryptography
- Digital Investigations and Forensics
- Communications and Incident Management
- Strategic Leadership
- Cyber Security Analyst Information Security Analyst Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst Network Security Engineer Ethical Hacking Technician Cyber Risk Analyst IT Security Consultant Security Compliance Officer Vulnerability Assessment Analyst Incident Response Analyst
- BSc Computer Science , It leads to
- MSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Who can apply?
Admissions will review your academic background and the requirements for your chosen route.