Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to support maintaining a cyber secure network through identifying cyber security threats for an organisation.
It applies to those working in a broad range of industries who as part of their job role contribute to assessments of level of risk relating to real and potential cyber security breaches.
No licensing, legislative or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

What You'll Learn

Assessment Requirements

Performance Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate the ability to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including evidence of the ability to:
• provide non-technical support to a cyber security threat assessment in a work area by describing three threats
• communicate and distribute findings of the identified threats.

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate knowledge to complete the tasks outlined in the elements, performance criteria and foundation skills of this unit, including knowledge of:
• legislative requirements relating to contributing to cyber security threat assessments, including:
• data protection
• implications of Notifiable Data Breach legislation on an organisation and other associated Australian privacy laws
• established international legislation
• potential organisational impact of cyber attacks
• online risks affecting organisation’s operations
• common procedures for cyber threat rating and modelling
• strategies, techniques and tools that improve an organisation’s cyber security and audit processes
• organisational policies and procedures for information security, including:
• confidentiality, integrity, and availability
• communicating threat assessment findings.

Assessment Conditions

Skills must be assessed in a workplace or simulated environment where conditions are typical of a work environment requiring cyber secure practices, processes and procedures.
Access is required to:
• information and data sources relating to cyber security
• device with active internet connection
• internet browser
• industry standards and organisational procedures required to demonstrate the performance evidence.
Assessors of this unit must satisfy the requirements for assessors in applicable vocational education and training legislation, frameworks and/or standards.

Foundation Skills

• {'skill': 'Learning', 'description': 'Modifies behaviour following exposure to new information'}
• {'skill': 'Numeracy', 'description': 'Interprets mathematical data; Completes at times complex calculations and records mathematical data'}
• {'skill': 'Oral communication', 'description': 'Asks open and closed probing questions and actively listens to clarify consultations; Communicate findings of assessment of business impact to required personnel'}
• {'skill': 'Reading', 'description': 'Recognises and interprets information from relevant sources to determine organisational expectations'}
• {'skill': 'Writing', 'description': 'Uses clear, specific and industry-related terminology relating to cyber security; Produces written reports on business impact of assessed threat'}
• {'skill': 'Teamwork', 'description': 'Works collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams to ensure procedures are implemented'}
• {'skill': 'Technology', 'description': 'Uses appropriate technology platforms to assist with cyber security threat assessments'}

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