Critical infrastructure for Beginners: In Practice
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. Designed for students with no prior experience in this area, this course builds knowledge from the ground up with clear explanations, guided demonstrations, and progressive skill-building. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn core concepts through practical examples that connect theory to real-world security operations. By completion, students will have the foundational knowledge and hands-on confidence needed to contribute in professional cybersecurity 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 for Beginners: In Practice
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for why critical infrastructure security matters
- Execute hands-on tasks for attacks since 2020
- Execute hands-on tasks for national security impact
- Execute hands-on tasks for regulatory drivers
- Execute hands-on tasks for water & wastewater
- Execute hands-on tasks for healthcare & public health
- Execute hands-on tasks for information technology
- Execute hands-on tasks for update cycle
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for enterprise network
| Module 01 | Advanced Cyber Defense Mastery |
| Module 02 | Executive Overview |
| Module 03 | Why Critical Infrastructure Security Matters |
| Module 04 | Attacks Since 2020 |
| Module 05 | National Security Impact |
| Module 06 | Regulatory Drivers |
| Module 07 | Water & Wastewater |
| Module 08 | Healthcare & Public Health |
| Module 09 | Information Technology |
| Module 10 | Update Cycle |
| Module 11 | The Purdue Model: OT Network Architecture |
| Module 12 | Enterprise Network |
| Module 13 | Business Planning |
| Module 14 | Segmentation Strategies |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice critical infrastructure for beginners: in practice by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Lab 2: Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for why critical infrastructure security matters
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for attacks since 2020
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for national security impact
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Critical infrastructure for Beginners: In Practice, 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