Email forensics Threats, Tactics, and Defenses
RCCE students will learn email security architecture including SMTP protocol security, email authentication mechanisms (SPF, DKIM, DMARC), email gateway configuration, anti-phishing controls, attachment sandboxing, URL rewriting, and email encryption. RCCE students will learn to analyze email headers for spoofing indicators, configure email security controls to prevent business email compromise, investigate email-based attacks, implement data loss prevention for outbound email, deploy email encryption for sensitive communications, and tune email security rules to balance protection with business communication needs. This threat-focused course teaches students to think like adversaries while building robust defenses. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn to analyze attack techniques, build detection logic, and implement defensive strategies that proactively identify threats before they cause damage. Students develop a threat-informed mindset that drives better security decisions across all operational activities.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Email forensics Threats, Tactics, and Defenses
- Execute hands-on tasks for cloud forensics
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn — covering Cloud-native evidence collection & preservation.
- Execute hands-on tasks for operational focus — covering Threat-informed forensic methodology, AWS, Azure, GCP forensic log analysis, Legal considerations for cloud evidence.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for physical access
- Execute hands-on tasks for key insight — covering Cloud forensics requires a fundamentally different methodology, Speed is critical — evidence can disappear in seconds.
- Execute hands-on tasks for shared responsibility: forensic implications — covering Physical infrastructure security, Hypervisor-level logging.
- Execute hands-on tasks for csp responsibility — covering Physical infrastructure security, Hypervisor-level logging.
- Execute hands-on tasks for customer responsibility — covering Application-level logging, IAM configuration & monitoring.
- Execute hands-on tasks for forensic gap analysis — covering Identify what evidence the CSP provides vs what you must collect, evidence gaps BEFORE incidents occur.
- Explain Cloud Evidence Sources Overview fundamentals
| Module 01 | Cloud Forensics |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Operational Focus |
| Module 05 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 06 | Physical Access |
| Module 07 | Key Insight |
| Module 08 | Shared Responsibility: Forensic Implications |
| Module 09 | CSP Responsibility |
| Module 10 | Customer Responsibility |
| Module 11 | Forensic Gap Analysis |
| Module 12 | Cloud Evidence Sources Overview |
| Module 13 | Control Plane Logs |
| Module 14 | Data Plane Logs |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice email forensics threats, tactics, and defenses by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for cloud forensics
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for operational focus
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Email forensics Threats, Tactics, and Defenses, 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