Critical infrastructure Architecture and Guardrails: Fast Track
RCCE students will learn critical infrastructure protection for sectors including energy, water, transportation, healthcare, and communications, covering sector-specific threats, regulatory frameworks, and defense strategies. RCCE students will learn to assess security posture for critical infrastructure environments, implement ICS-specific security controls, comply with frameworks like NERC CIP and IEC 62443, design network architectures that protect operational technology from IT-based threats, monitor industrial systems for cyber-physical attacks, conduct vulnerability assessments without disrupting operations, and coordinate with government agencies including CISA for threat intelligence sharing. This architecture course teaches secure system design using proven patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to evaluate design options against security requirements, make informed trade-off decisions, and build systems that are resilient by design. Students gain the architectural thinking skills needed for security engineering and solution design roles.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Critical infrastructure Architecture and Guardrails: Fast Track
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives — covering Evaluate OT environments holistically, Deploy defense-in-depth for OT, Apply IEC 62443 zone segmentation.
- Execute hands-on tasks for implement ics security controls — covering Deploy defense-in-depth for OT, Apply IEC 62443 zone segmentation, Harden PLCs, RTUs, and HMIs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for assess ci security posture — covering Evaluate OT environments holistically.
- Execute hands-on tasks for deploy defense-in-depth for ot — covering Apply IEC 62443 zone segmentation, Harden PLCs, RTUs, and HMIs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for apply iec 62443 zone segmentation — covering Harden PLCs, RTUs, and HMIs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for comply with frameworks — covering Navigate NERC CIP requirements.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Build segmented OT networks, guardrails by design, and Coordinate with CISA for intel.
- Execute hands-on tasks for build segmented ot networks — covering guardrails by design, Coordinate with CISA for intel.
- Execute hands-on tasks for what is critical infrastructure?
- Execute hands-on tasks for why it matters — covering Energy, Water, Transport, Healthcare.
- Execute hands-on tasks for energy, water, transport, healthcare
| Module 01 | Critical Infrastructure Architecture |
| Module 02 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 03 | Implement ICS Security Controls |
| Module 04 | Assess CI Security Posture |
| Module 05 | Deploy defense-in-depth for OT |
| Module 06 | Apply IEC 62443 zone segmentation |
| Module 07 | Comply with Frameworks |
| Module 08 | Design Resilient Architectures |
| Module 09 | Build segmented OT networks |
| Module 10 | What Is Critical Infrastructure? |
| Module 11 | Why It Matters |
| Module 12 | Energy, Water, Transport, Healthcare |
| Module 13 | Communications, Financial, Food/Ag |
| Module 14 | Government, Defense Industrial Base |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice critical infrastructure architecture and guardrails: fast track by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for implement ics security controls
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for assess ci security posture
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for deploy defense-in-depth for ot
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Critical infrastructure Architecture and Guardrails: Fast Track, 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