PDA Cyber Resilience

Overview

The PDA qualifications in Cyber Resilience aim to provide foundation knowledge and skills in cyber security to increase awareness and develop deeper knowledge and appropriate skills of the discipline. These qualifications also raise awareness of the societal aspects of cyber security.

The principal aim of the qualifications is to introduce cyber security to learners already employed across the wider workforce, to encourage interest in this emerging discipline as a potential future career and to improve cyber security knowledge for all learners irrespective of their vocational goals.

They are suitable for all learners who wish to develop their cyber security awareness in support of their contribution to strengthening the cyber resilience of their employer organisation.

Audience

The target audience is those in work, or seeking employment, who require a specific skill set. The qualifications are suitable for all learners who wish to develop their cyber security awareness in support of their contribution to strengthening the cyber resilience of their employer organisation.

The qualifications are intended for learners who typically work in a wide range of roles not directly related to cyber security, but where cyber resilience is becoming an increasingly important factor to their roles. It aims to attract four types of learners who are expected to enter through one of the following routes:

• Direct entry from employment: learners will typically seek to develop their awareness and understanding of cyber resilience in the context of their own employment.
• Direct entry from employment: learners will typically seek to develop their awareness and understanding in order to support a career change into a more cyber security focused role with their own employer or another employer.
• Direct entry from unemployment: learners will typically seek to develop their awareness and understanding in order to pursue a career in a cyber security related role with an employer.
• Direct entry from university: learners will typically be new graduate hires who may lack a foundational understanding of applied cyber security.

Progression

Learners may progress to further cyber security specific learning and training, education or employment. The qualifications should permit learners to progress to a range of pathways in cyber security (or related subjects). Learners completing the SCQF level 9 could consider specialising in cyber security related employment as entry-level cyber security analysts.

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For further information on this course contact corporate@wcs.ac.uk or call 0141 581 2121