Advanced Evidence collection Mastery: Primer
RCCE students will learn audit evidence collection, management, and presentation including evidence types, collection methodologies, evidence repositories, and evidence lifecycle management. RCCE students will learn to identify the types of evidence required for various compliance frameworks, develop evidence collection procedures that produce consistent and reliable results, configure automated evidence collection from security tools and systems, manage evidence repositories with proper access controls and versioning, validate evidence quality and completeness, present evidence packages to internal and external auditors, and maintain evidence retention schedules that meet regulatory requirements. This advanced mastery course challenges experienced practitioners with complex scenarios, expert-level techniques, and nuanced decision-making. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to handle the most demanding situations in this domain, developing the expertise expected of senior security professionals. Students tackle multi-layered problems that require synthesizing knowledge across multiple disciplines.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Advanced Evidence collection Mastery: Primer
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced evidence collection mastery
- Execute hands-on tasks for identify & classify
- Execute hands-on tasks for collect & automate — covering & Present, & Assure Quality.
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Execute hands-on tasks for evidence quality attributes
- Execute hands-on tasks for compliance framework evidence map
- Execute hands-on tasks for key evidence types
- Explain Evidence Lifecycle Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for evidence collection methodologies
- Execute hands-on tasks for manual collection
- Execute hands-on tasks for automated collection
- Execute hands-on tasks for hybrid approaches — covering Screen captures with timestamps, API-driven extraction pipelines.
| Module 01 | Advanced Evidence Collection Mastery |
| Module 02 | Identify & Classify |
| Module 03 | Collect & Automate |
| Module 04 | What Is Audit Evidence? |
| Module 05 | Evidence Quality Attributes |
| Module 06 | Compliance Framework Evidence Map |
| Module 07 | Key Evidence Types |
| Module 08 | Evidence Lifecycle Overview |
| Module 09 | Evidence Collection Methodologies |
| Module 10 | Manual Collection |
| Module 11 | Automated Collection |
| Module 12 | Hybrid Approaches |
| Module 13 | Building Collection Procedures |
| Module 14 | Procedure Components |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice advanced evidence collection mastery: primer by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced evidence collection mastery
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for identify & classify
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for collect & automate
- Lab 4: Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for evidence quality attributes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Advanced Evidence collection Mastery: Primer, verifiable through the Rocheston certification portal.
- Full access to all course materials and slide decks
- Hands-on lab access on Rocheston Rose X OS environment
- Access to Rocheston CyberNotes
- Access to Rocheston Zelfire — EDR/XDR SIEM platform
- Access to Rocheston Raven — online cyber range exercise platform
- Access to Rocheston Vulnerability Vines AI