Analysing & Advising
For a Digital Business Engineer, Analysing & Advising means systematically investigating business and IT issues and translating insights into clear, well‑founded recommendations. You iteratively and methodically explore the external environment, business processes, revenue models, data and IT systems to validate, improve or identify new solutions that fit stakeholder and client requirements. Throughout this process, you maintain an investigative, critical attitude and apply relevant standards. Your advice explicitly addresses the societal and ethical impact of proposed choices and is communicated convincingly, using formats and language tailored to different target audiences.
Starting Points
Level 2 Learning Outcome Analysing and Advising
You investigate issues in a methodical way, identify core problems, and advise on solutions with clear justification.
Success criteria:
- You start your analysis with a clear research question and a conscious, argued choice of approach.
- You demonstrate an inquisitive and critical attitude by questioning the sources you find and AI‑generated output.
- You identify core problems by distinguishing between main and secondary issues and show awareness of the societal context in which the issue is situated.
- You provide convincing advice by using clearly substantiated arguments.
- You consciously adapt your communication to the target audience, in both format and language use.
Level 3 Learning Outcome Analysing and Advising
You investigate complex issues methodically, analyse core problems from multiple perspectives and formulate well‑founded, convincing advice in which you weigh alternatives and specify consequences.
Success criteria:
- You independently determine a research approach that fits the complex issue and adjust it based on what you encounter.
- You demonstrate an inquisitive and critical attitude by questioning sources, AI results, the problem definition and your own assumptions.
- You analyse issues from multiple perspectives and consciously weigh societal and ethical consequences.
- You formulate a well‑founded advice in which you weigh alternatives, identify risks and make a substantiated recommendation.
- You consciously adapt your communication to different target groups with differing interests, in both form and language use.
Products
The following products can demonstrate the Analysing & Advising learning outcomes (often combining several aspects of analysis and advice):
- Analysis
- Advisory report
- CYBOK 02.5-6 Risk Analysis Methods & System Thinking
- CYBOK 02.7 Business Continuity and Incident Response
- CYBOK 03 Law and Regulation for the Cyber Security Professional
- CYBOK 03.1 Regulatory frameworks
- CYBOK 03.1-4 Law in ICT_ A Foundational Guide for Cyber Security Specialist
- CYBOK 03.13 Ethics and Law in Cyber Security
- CYBOK 04 Human Factors - Centering the Human in Cybersecurity
- CYBOK 04.2-4 Usable Security Awareness & Education
- CYBOK 04.6 Software Developers & Usable Security
- CYBOK 05 Privacy & Online Rights
- CYBOK 06 Malware Analysis Detection and reponse
- CYBOK 07 Threat Analysis and Hunting
- CYBOK 08 Security Operations & Incident Management
- CYBOK 08.2 and 08.3 SOC Analyse and Monitoring
- CYBOK 08.4 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
- CYBOK 08.6 CTI - Intelligence and Analytics
- CYBOK 09 Digital Forensics - Reconstructing the Truth
- CYBOK 09.1-3 Forencics Operating System Memory Storage
- CYBOK 09.4 Forencics - Application Forensics
- CYBOK 09.5-6 Forencics - Cloud-based Forensics
- CYBOK 11.3-5 Operating System Security Principles and Models
- CYBOK 12 Classes of Distributed Systems and Vulnerabilities (included Cloud)
- CYBOK 12.4 Cloud Distributed systems and Coordinated Resource Clustering
- CyBOK 13 Formal Methods for Security
- CYBOK 14 Authentication Authorisation & Accountability (AAA) (1)
- CYBOK 15.1 Software Security Fundamentals
- CYBOK 15.4-5 Software Security Detection of Vilnerabilities and Mitigating
- CYBOK 16 Web- and Mobile Security_ An Accessible Overview for Aspiring Specialist
- CYBOK 17.2-4 Secure Software Lifecycle Processes & Models
- CYBOK 18.1-2 Crypto Schemes and Protocols - Implementation
- CYBOK 19.1-3 Network Goals Applications
- CYBOK 20 Hardware Security
- CYBOK 21 Cyber-Physical Systems Security
- CYBOK 22 Physical Layer and Telecommunications Security
- CYBOK I chapters 2 - 5 Human Organisational & Regulatory Aspects
- CYBOK II chapters 6 - 9 Attacks & Defences
- CYBOK III chapters 10-14 Systems Security
- CYBOK IV chapters 15 - 17 Software & Platform Security
- CYBOK V chapters 18 - 22 Infrastructure Security