A five year graduate pathway into cyber security leadership. You will work directly alongside a sitting vCISO on real client engagements from month one, in a dual CISO arrangement that hands over increasing responsibility as you build it, backed by a structured route through CISSP, CISM, CRISC, EC-Council CCISO and AI security training.
Most cyber security graduate schemes sit you in a rotation and hope something sticks. This programme is different. From your first week, you are paired directly with senior security leadership at B5, and you work the same client engagements they do.
We call it a dual CISO arrangement because that is exactly what it is. You are not shadowing from the back of the room. You take on real client responsibility early, with the level of ownership increasing year on year, so that by year five you are not applying for your first security role elsewhere, you are stepping up to lead the clients you have already been serving, with five years of genuine, verifiable experience behind you.
Alongside the work, B5 Cyber supports you through a sequenced path of industry certifications, timed to match the experience you are actually earning, not bought in a single revision weekend.
Paired with senior B5 security leadership on real client accounts from day one, not a rotation scheme.
CISSP, CISM, CRISC and EC-Council CCISO each have genuine experience requirements. This programme is built to meet them honestly, with B5 supporting exam and training costs.
B5 is building its AI security practice now. You will train in AI governance and risk alongside traditional security leadership from year one.
Each year combines a defined client role, a certification milestone, and a measurable outcome. Certification timings below follow the real eligibility rules set by ISC2, ISACA and EC-Council, not a marketing version of them.
This programme is not built to produce people who leave once they are ready. The aim is for you to stay on as the named security lead for the clients you have built across your five years, taking the relationship forward rather than handing it to someone new.
From there, your responsibility grows in two directions. You take over additional existing client relationships as B5's senior leadership steps back to focus on new business and oversight, and you start winning and onboarding new vCISO engagements of your own.
To support that growing client book, you build your own team, bringing in the next cohort of Future CISO graduates and mentoring them the way you were mentored, running their dual CISO pairing and deciding when they are ready for real client responsibility. The programme is designed to repeat itself at every level, not to produce a single promotion and stop.
B5 Cyber supports the cost of exams and accredited training for every certification in the programme.
The benchmark security leadership credential. Sat in year two as an Associate of ISC2, confirmed in full once your four years of degree qualified experience are banked.
Focused on information security management. Built around genuine management experience earned through the dual CISO role, not a waiver alone.
Risk and control expertise, drawn directly from the risk register ownership you take on in year three.
The executive level CISO credential. You progress through the Associate CCISO track from year three to the full CCISO in year five.
EC-Council AI Essentials in year one and the ISC2 AI Security Certificate in year two, with ISC2's dedicated AI security certification as a year five and beyond target.
ISO 27001 and 27002, NIST CSF, NIST 800-82 and SOC 2 are taught through live client work throughout, not as a separate course.
This programme is for recent graduates, including those who have not yet found their first role. A background in computer science or security helps, but it is not required.
A UK degree, any discipline, awarded within the last two years, or due to complete this year.
Clear written and verbal communication, you will be client facing from year one.
Genuine interest in cyber security and a willingness to study for professional certifications alongside full time work.
Based in or able to work hybrid from the Surrey and South East England area.
Send your CV and a short note on why cyber security, to the address below. Tell us which stage you are at, including if you have already graduated and are still looking for your first role.