Summary
We have a fantastic opportunity to join Thames Water as a Cyber Security Apprentice. You will play an integral role in protecting our organisation against external and internal threats to maintain running our business operations
Wage
£21,500 a year
You’ll also receive 24 days holiday, pension and other benefits.
Training course
Cyber security technologist (2021) (level 4)
Hours
Monday- Friday: (Hours TBC)
36 hours a week
Possible start date
Monday 1 September
Duration
2 years
Positions available
1
Work
As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.
What you’ll do at work
What you will be doing as a Cyber Security Apprentice - Level 4
Daily responsibilities will include learning to:
* Support cyber risk management across the enterprise, ensuring that a framework for identification, assessment and mitigation exists and is implemented and maintained
* Support Third Party Security Risk by risk assessing and processing Third Party exemptions to the Security Schedule, and supporting the periodic assessments of critical Third Partys
* Support Information and Cyber Security Policy and Standard annual reviews and help to ensure alignment to core industry frameworks. [ISF, CIS, NIST]
* Audit Management of actions, ensuring owners, due dates and closing evidence are complete and on time
* Assist the team with Regulatory alignment and the gathering of evidence for the annual review
* Support compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices, such as GDPR, NIS and ISO 27001submissions to the Directorate of Water Inspection [DWI]
* Provide the monthly metric dashboards for the Digital Performance and Strategy meetings, ensuring metrics are meaningful, consistent and reportable
* Support the Control Testing & Assurance Manager to carry out isolated tests of controls to ascertain their design and operational effectiveness
Where you’ll work
Clearwater Court
Vastern Road
Reading
Berkshire
RG1 8DB
Training
An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.
College or training organisation
FIREBRAND TRAINING LIMITED
Your training course
Cyber security technologist (2021) (level 4)
Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)
Course contents
* Discover vulnerabilities in a system by using a mix of research and practical exploration
* Analyse and evaluate security threats and hazards to a system or service or processes. Use relevant external source of threat intelligence or advice (e.g. National Cyber Security Centre) Combine different sources to create an enriched view of cyber threats and hazards
* Research and investigate common attack techniques and relate these to normal and observed digital system behaviour and recommend how to defend against them. Interpret and demonstrate use of external source of vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP, intelligence sharing initiatives, open source)
* Undertake security risk assessments for simple systems without direct supervision and propose basic remediation advice in the context of the employer.
* Source and analyse security cases and describe what threats, vulnerability or risks are mitigated and identify any residual areas of concern.
* Analyse employer or customer requirements to derive security objectives and taking account of the threats and overall context develop a security case which sets out the proposed security measures in the context with reasoned justification
* Identify and follow organisational policies and standards for information and cyber security and operate according to service level agreements or other defined performance targets.
* Configure, deploy and use computer, digital network and cyber security technology.
* Recommend improvements to the cyber security posture of an employer or customer based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
* Write program code or scripts to meet a given design requirement in accordance with employers' coding standards
* Identify cyber security threats relevant to a defined context
* Accurately, objectively and concisely record and report the appropriate cyber security information, including in written reports within a structure or template provided.
* Design, build, test and troubleshoot a network incorporating more than one subnet with static and dynamic routes, to a given design requirement without supervision. Provide evidence that the system meets the design requirement.
* Analyse security requirements given (functional and non-functional security requirements that may be presented in a security case) against other design requirements (e.g. usability, cost, size, weight, power, heat, supportability etc.) for a given system or product. Identify conflicting requirements and propose, with reasoning, resolution through appropriate trade-offs.
* Design and build, systems in accordance with a security case within broad but generally well-defined parameters. This should include selection and configuration of typical security hardware and software components. Provide evidence that the system has properly implemented the security controls required by the security case
* Design systems employing encryption to meet defined security objectives. Develop and implement a plan for managing the associated encryption keys for the given scenario or system.
* Use tools, techniques and processes to actively prevent breaches to digital system security.
* Configure digital system monitoring and analysis tools (e.g. SIEM tools), taking account of threat & vulnerability intelligence, indicators of compromise.
* Conduct cyber-risk assessments against an externally (market) recognised cyber security standard using a recognised risk assessment methodology.
* Develop information security policies or processes to address a set of identified risks, for example from security audit recommendations.
* Develop information security policies within a defined scope to take account of legislation and regulation relevant to cyber security.
* Take an active part in a security audits against recognised cyber security standards, undertake gap analysis and make recommendations for remediation..
* Develop plans for local business continuity for approval within defined governance arrangements for business continuity.
* Assess security culture using a recognised approach.
* Design and implement a simple ‘security awareness’ campaign to address a specific aspect of a security culture.
* Develop plans for incident response for approval within defined governance arrangements for incident response.
* Integrate and correlate information from various sources (including log files from different sources, digital system monitoring tools, Secure Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools, access control systems, physical security systems) and compare to known threat and vulnerability data to form a judgement based on evidence with reasoning that the anomaly represents a digital system security breach
* Recognise anomalies in observed digital system data structures (including by inspection of network packet data structures) and digital system behaviours (including by inspection of protocol behaviours) and by inspection of log files and by investigation of alerts raised by automated tools including SIEM tools.
* Undertake root cause analysis of events and make recommendations to reduce false positives and false negatives.
* Manage local response to non-major incidents in accordance with a defined procedure.
* Discover vulnerabilities in a system by using a mix of research and practical exploration
* Analyse and evaluate security threats and hazards to a system or service or processes. Use relevant external source of threat intelligence or advice (e.g. National Cyber Security Centre) Combine different sources to create an enriched view of cyber threats and hazards
* Research and investigate common attack techniques and relate these to normal and observed digital system behaviour and recommend how to defend against them. Interpret and demonstrate use of external source of vulnerabilities (e.g. OWASP, intelligence sharing initiatives, open source)
* Undertake security risk assessments for simple systems without direct supervision and propose basic remediation advice in the context of the employer.
* Source and analyse security cases and describe what threats, vulnerability or risks are mitigated and identify any residual areas of concern.
* Analyse employer or customer requirements to derive security objectives and taking account of the threats and overall context develop a security case which sets out the proposed security measures in the context with reasoned justification
* Identify and follow organisational policies and standards for information and cyber security and operate according to service level agreements or other defined performance targets.
* Configure, deploy and use computer, digital network and cyber security technology.
* Recommend improvements to the cyber security posture of an employer or customer based on research into future potential cyber threats and considering threat trends.
* Write program code or scripts to meet a given design requirement in accordance with employers' coding standards
* Identify cyber security threats relevant to a defined context
* Accurately, objectively and concisely record and report the appropriate cyber security information, including in written reports within a structure or template provided.
Your training plan
Apprenticeship Programme is taught through a blended framework of Residential (Wyboston, Bedforshire) and Online Classroom learning based on. Apprentices also have full access to an e-learning platform that covers all areas of Cyber Security and over 5,000 courses on other relevant business topics.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
* English (grade 4)
* Maths (grade 4)
A Level in:
* STEM Subject (grade Passed)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
* IT skills
* Team working
* Logical thinker
* Focused
* Well organised
* Time management
* Dedication to succeed