Essentials of Playbooks
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
- Execute hands-on tasks for essentials of playbooks
- Execute hands-on tasks for fast track
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for playbook fundamentals — covering incident response playbooks.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including incident response playbooks.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for key characteristics — covering Predefined step-by-step IR procedures, Actionable: clear next steps at each stage.
- Execute hands-on tasks for why playbooks matter
- Execute hands-on tasks for without playbooks — covering Analysts make different decisions for same incident.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ir lifecycle and playbook alignment
- Execute hands-on tasks for continuous loop — covering Preparation: build and review playbooks.
| Module 01 | Essentials of Playbooks |
| Module 02 | Fast Track |
| Module 03 | Course Overview |
| Module 04 | Playbook Fundamentals |
| Module 05 | Design and Build |
| Module 06 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 07 | What Is an Incident Response Playbook? |
| Module 08 | Key Characteristics |
| Module 09 | Why Playbooks Matter |
| Module 10 | Without Playbooks |
| Module 11 | IR Lifecycle and Playbook Alignment |
| Module 12 | Continuous Loop |
| Module 13 | Anatomy of a Playbook |
| Module 14 | Playbook Metadata Deep Dive |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice essentials of playbooks by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for essentials of playbooks
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for fast track
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for playbook fundamentals
- Lab 5: Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Essentials of Playbooks, 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