Defense in depth Incident Handling
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 incident response course prepares students to act decisively during security incidents with structured workflows and clear decision frameworks. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn containment, evidence collection, eradication, and recovery procedures specific to this domain. Students practice incident scenarios that build the composure, coordination, and documentation skills essential for effective incident handling.
- 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 Incident Handling
- Execute hands-on tasks for incident handling
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Execute hands-on tasks for skills you will build — covering Core security principles and CIA triad, Apply security principles to system design.
- Execute hands-on tasks for the cia triad — core security principles
- Execute hands-on tasks for incident type
- Execute hands-on tasks for containment priority
- Execute hands-on tasks for recovery goal
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for controls at each defense layer
- Execute hands-on tasks for physical layer
- Execute hands-on tasks for network layer — covering Badge access, mantraps, CCTV, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, segmentation.
| Module 01 | Incident Handling |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Skills You Will Build |
| Module 05 | The CIA Triad — Core Security Principles |
| Module 06 | Incident Type |
| Module 07 | Containment Priority |
| Module 08 | Recovery Goal |
| Module 09 | Defense in Depth — Layered Security Model |
| Module 10 | Controls at Each Defense Layer |
| Module 11 | Physical Layer |
| Module 12 | Network Layer |
| Module 13 | Application Layer |
| Module 14 | Data Layer |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice defense in depth incident handling by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for incident handling
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for skills you will build
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for the cia triad — core security principles
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Defense in depth Incident Handling, 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