Essentials of Playbooks: Fast Track
RCCE students will learn incident response playbook development, maintenance, and execution including playbook structure, decision trees, automation integration, and playbook testing. RCCE students will learn to develop incident response playbooks for common attack scenarios, structure playbooks with clear triggers, decision points, escalation criteria, and resolution steps, integrate playbook actions with SOAR platforms for automated execution, test and validate playbooks through tabletop exercises and simulations, maintain playbook currency as the threat landscape evolves, measure playbook effectiveness through response time and outcome metrics, and build a comprehensive playbook library that covers the full spectrum of organizational security incidents. This essentials course covers the core knowledge needed to operate competently in this domain. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn the fundamental concepts, terminology, risks, and defenses that form the foundation for all further study and professional practice. Students build a solid knowledge base that prepares them for more advanced courses and real-world security responsibilities.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Essentials of Playbooks: Fast Track
- Execute hands-on tasks for key management service operations for cloud security
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for core knowledge
- Execute hands-on tasks for symmetric encryption
- Execute hands-on tasks for asymmetric encryption — covering Same key encrypts and decrypts.
- Execute hands-on tasks for why key management matters
- Execute hands-on tasks for without kms — covering Keys stored in plaintext config files.
- Execute hands-on tasks for with proper kms — covering Hardware-backed key storage (HSM).
- Execute hands-on tasks for dek — data encryption key — covering Encrypts actual data directly.
- Execute hands-on tasks for kek — key encryption key — covering Encrypts DEKs (wrapping key).
- Execute hands-on tasks for cmk — customer master key — covering Root key you own in KMS.
- Execute hands-on tasks for hsm — hardware security module — covering Tamper-resistant key storage.
| Module 01 | Key Management Service Operations for Cloud Security |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | Core Knowledge |
| Module 04 | Symmetric Encryption |
| Module 05 | Asymmetric Encryption |
| Module 06 | Why Key Management Matters |
| Module 07 | Without KMS |
| Module 08 | With Proper KMS |
| Module 09 | DEK — Data Encryption Key |
| Module 10 | KEK — Key Encryption Key |
| Module 11 | CMK — Customer Master Key |
| Module 12 | HSM — Hardware Security Module |
| Module 13 | BYOK — Bring Your Own Key |
| Module 14 | HYOK — Hold Your Own Key |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice essentials of playbooks: fast track by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for key management service operations for cloud security
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for core knowledge
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for symmetric encryption
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for asymmetric encryption
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Essentials of Playbooks: 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