CI/CD Incident Handling
RCCE students will learn CI/CD pipeline security including build environment hardening, artifact integrity verification, secret management in pipelines, deployment authorization controls, and pipeline audit logging. RCCE students will learn to secure continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines against supply chain attacks, harden build environments and runners, implement secret scanning to prevent credential leakage, verify artifact integrity through code signing and attestation, configure deployment gates and approval workflows, detect unauthorized pipeline modifications, audit pipeline execution logs for suspicious activity, and respond to incidents involving compromised CI/CD infrastructure. This incident response course prepares students to act decisively during security incidents with structured workflows and clear decision frameworks. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn containment, evidence collection, eradication, and recovery procedures specific to this domain. Students practice incident scenarios that build the composure, coordination, and documentation skills essential for effective incident handling.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing CI/CD Incident Handling
- Explain Module Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what this module covers
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for build environment hardening
- Execute hands-on tasks for secret management & credential hygiene
- Execute hands-on tasks for artifact integrity & code signing
- Execute hands-on tasks for deployment gates & authorization
- Execute hands-on tasks for attack patterns & protection controls
- Execute hands-on tasks for labs & operational artifacts
- Execute hands-on tasks for code commit →
- Execute hands-on tasks for pipeline components
| Module 01 | Module Overview |
| Module 02 | What This Module Covers |
| Module 03 | Pipeline Architecture & Threat Surface |
| Module 04 | Build Environment Hardening |
| Module 05 | Secret Management & Credential Hygiene |
| Module 06 | Artifact Integrity & Code Signing |
| Module 07 | Deployment Gates & Authorization |
| Module 08 | Attack Patterns & Protection Controls |
| Module 09 | Labs & Operational Artifacts |
| Module 10 | CI/CD Pipeline Architecture |
| Module 11 | Code Commit → |
| Module 12 | Pipeline Components |
| Module 13 | Security Boundaries |
| Module 14 | Deployment targets (K8s, serverless, VMs) |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice ci/cd incident handling by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Explain Module Overview fundamentals
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for what this module covers
- Lab 3: Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for build environment hardening
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for secret management & credential hygiene
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for CI/CD Incident Handling, 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