CI/CD Monitoring and Detection
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 monitoring course teaches comprehensive detection and observability strategies for proactive security operations. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to instrument systems for security telemetry, build detection pipelines, configure alerting, and maintain monitoring coverage as environments evolve. Students gain the visibility and detection capabilities needed to catch threats early.
- 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 Monitoring and Detection
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Explain Course Overview & Learning Objectives fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for course scope — covering CI/CD pipeline security architecture.
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation, including Security telemetry instrumentation.
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation, including Compromised pipeline response playbooks.
- Execute hands-on tasks for hands-on labs — covering Pipeline hardening exercises.
- Explain CI/CD Pipeline Architecture Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for key pipeline components — covering VCS webhooks trigger pipeline execution.
- Execute hands-on tasks for attack surface areas — covering Source code repositories and branches.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for supply chain risks
| Module 01 | CI/CD Monitoring and Detection |
| Module 02 | Advanced DevSecOps Pipeline Security, Detection Engineering & Incident |
| Module 03 | Course Overview & Learning Objectives |
| Module 04 | Course Scope |
| Module 05 | Detection Engineering |
| Module 06 | Incident Response |
| Module 07 | Hands-On Labs |
| Module 08 | CI/CD Pipeline Architecture Overview |
| Module 09 | Key Pipeline Components |
| Module 10 | Attack Surface Areas |
| Module 11 | CI/CD Security Threat Model |
| Module 12 | Supply Chain Risks |
| Module 13 | Infrastructure Risks |
| Module 14 | Process Risks |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice ci/cd monitoring and detection by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Lab 2: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview & Learning Objectives fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for course scope
- Lab 5: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for CI/CD Monitoring and Detection, 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