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Institute of Advanced Technological and Commercial Studies

TP30 · Level 7

Chief Information Security Officer

Target occupation: CISO.

Target occupation
CISO
Level
7 — Expert and executive
Duration
9 months
Taught hours
700 h
Credits
70

Framework

Competency blocks

Each block is assessed separately and stays acquired. That is what lets you resume an interrupted path without starting over.

  1. Security strategy and governance

    190 hours

    Policy, risk analysis, frameworks, committees, budget, cyber insurance

  2. Architecture and technical control

    180 hours

    Defence in depth, identities, segmentation, cloud and agent security

  3. Detection, response and crisis

    180 hours

    Security operations centre, incident response, forensics, crisis management, notification

  4. Compliance, third parties and awareness

    100 hours

    Compliance, data protection, supplier security, security culture

  5. Executive conduct

    50 hours

    Reporting to the board, arbitrating security against business, raising alarms

Questions

How is this title awarded?

Through a workplace simulation before a panel of practitioners, together with a professional portfolio recording what you actually produced. An occupation is proven by practising it, not on paper.

What employment rate do you publish?

None, and that is deliberate: no cohort has yet completed this title. The six-month employment rate is this family's own indicator, and we will publish it once a cohort has produced one — not before. An invented figure here would be the first thing an employer checks.

Chief Information Security Officer — IHETC