Defense in depth Hardening Clinic: Case Studies
RCCE students will learn core security principles, the CIA triad, defense-in-depth strategies, risk management fundamentals, and security architecture basics. RCCE students will learn to build a solid cybersecurity knowledge base that supports every domain of the RCCE certification, apply security principles to real-world system design, and develop the analytical thinking needed to evaluate and improve security postures across any organization. This hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to apply hardening baselines, validate configurations, and measure the security improvement achieved. Students walk away with actionable hardening checklists and the skills to maintain hardened configurations as environments evolve.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Defense in depth Hardening Clinic: Case Studies
- Execute hands-on tasks for hardening clinic: case studies
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn — covering Core security principles & CIA triad, Defense-in-depth strategies.
- Execute hands-on tasks for core security principles & cia triad — covering Defense-in-depth strategies.
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will build — covering Actionable hardening checklists, Configuration validation scripts.
- Execute hands-on tasks for physical security
- Execute hands-on tasks for network security
- Execute hands-on tasks for host security
- Execute hands-on tasks for application security
- Execute hands-on tasks for cia triad deep dive
- Execute hands-on tasks for asset type
- Execute hands-on tasks for key hardening action
| Module 01 | Hardening Clinic: Case Studies |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Core security principles & CIA triad |
| Module 05 | What You Will Build |
| Module 06 | Physical Security |
| Module 07 | Network Security |
| Module 08 | Host Security |
| Module 09 | Application Security |
| Module 10 | CIA Triad Deep Dive |
| Module 11 | Asset Type |
| Module 12 | Key Hardening Action |
| Module 13 | Database Server |
| Module 14 | Web Server |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice defense in depth hardening clinic: case studies by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for hardening clinic: case studies
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for core security principles & cia triad
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will build
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Defense in depth Hardening Clinic: Case Studies, 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