Defensive thinking
Connecting least privilege, MFA, patching and layered controls to the risks they help reduce.
04 / Capability
Skills
Progress should have something behind it. Each skill connects to the learning and practical work that supports it.
01
Learning
Understanding the ideas through study.
02
Developing
Applying knowledge with guidance.
03
Practised
Demonstrated through practical work.
04
Confident
Applied independently and consistently.
Security fundamentals
Building an understanding of confidentiality, integrity, availability and how security controls protect them.
Supporting evidence
Security governance
Exploring the role of people, processes, policies and risk in effective security.
Supporting evidence
Threat awareness
Learning to recognise threat actors, phishing and the smaller failures that can form an attack chain.
Supporting evidence
Current evidence reflects introductory learning. Practical capability will be documented as labs and projects are completed.