Cyber Security Technician

The cyber security technician was approved for delivery on 13/05/2020. This Advanced apprenticeship standard awards you with a level 3, qualification when completed. The usual duration of this apprenticeship is 18 months, but this does not include the End-Point Assessment Period.

This apprenticeship standard aims to build practical skills and specialist knowledge in the provision of first-line cyber security support. This includes monitoring and detecting potential security threats and escalating these to the relevant incident report team. Typical duties include contributing to the delivery and maintenance of cyber security across an organisation, understanding vulnerabilities and threats and processing security threats confidentially.

Specifically, a cyber security technician will be responsible for patching software, installing software updates, configuring firewalls and implementing protection tools such as Anti-virus software. Cyber security technicians work in all sectors where information is held digitally and needs to be protected. This includes the finance, retail, healthcare, media, manufacturing industries as well as local authorities.

You will have the opportunity to develop a broad skill set, including the ability to manage your workload independently, use your own initiative and learn how to communicate with other professionals effectively.

Cyber security technicians tend to work in a team, and you will interact with a wide range of people, including colleagues, managers, customers and suppliers. Working opportunities include both office-based and remote.

• Access control administrator
• incident response technician
• junior security operations analyst
• junior threat and risk analyst

If you would like to find out more about the cyber security technician apprenticeship standard, skills, learnt, assessment methods and duties of the role, visit the Institute for Apprenticeships.