CI/CD Incident Handling: Blueprint
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: Blueprint
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for module scope — covering CI/CD pipeline incident response, Build environment hardening.
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation, including Build environment hardening.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning outcomes — covering Contain compromised pipelines, Collect forensic evidence from CI/CD.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for trust boundaries — covering VCS repositories and webhooks.
- Execute hands-on tasks for build environment hardening
- Execute hands-on tasks for ephemeral runners
- Execute hands-on tasks for network isolation
- Implement least-privilege enforcement across endpoints and roles, including Fresh VM per build job, and Segment build networks.
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts, including Minimal IAM for runners.
- Execute hands-on tasks for runner security & isolation
| Module 01 | Course Overview |
| Module 02 | Module Scope |
| Module 03 | CI/CD pipeline incident response |
| Module 04 | Learning Outcomes |
| Module 05 | CI/CD Pipeline Architecture |
| Module 06 | Trust Boundaries |
| Module 07 | Build Environment Hardening |
| Module 08 | Ephemeral Runners |
| Module 09 | Network Isolation |
| Module 10 | Least Privilege |
| Module 11 | Monitor DNS queries |
| Module 12 | Runner Security & Isolation |
| Module 13 | Self-Hosted Runners |
| Module 14 | Cloud-Managed Runners |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice ci/cd incident handling: blueprint by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for module scope
- Lab 3: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for learning outcomes
- Lab 5: Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for CI/CD Incident Handling: Blueprint, 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