Apprentice Cyber Security Engineer Review

Reviewing and creating Governance, Risk and Compliance documents and performing remediation tasks for new and existing Critical National Infrastructure businesses across the UK and Europe. This could involve communicating in the office to ensure the quality of customer documents and performing project tasks on lab equipment, or travelling to an industrial site to perform work on production equipment.

The programme follows a set path beginning with the basics required for the role and building on these to understand how networking, governance and SOC teams operate in tandem to create a secure baseline for protecting computer assets. Although some activities from the training provider are not communicated thoroughly enough to grasp what the final output should be.

The employer grants the required off-the-job hours to complete tasks related to the programme and provides tasks which can utilise the skills learnt in a practical and realistic way. Where additional support is required, flexible work hours allow for extra time to be given if needed and senior staff are always available to provide further support.

The training provider offers a dedicated tutor to provide support on the tasks who can be reached if needed. All information for the End Point Assessment are provided early to allow for revision of the topics needed to pass. However, communications to the assessor for the EPA via the provider can be time-consuming and may not be relayed correctly.

This qualification has allowed me to understand how to improve the processes and controls applied to customer equipment in order to provide the most effective security implementations possible while ensuring that this is communicated and monitored well to the customer.

Yes

It provides the entry-level and advanced skills and knowledge to enter the emerging industrial cybersecurity industry while improving upon industry-wide skills which can be implemented in IT, consultation and project management.