Hands-On Hiring: Fast Track
RCCE students will learn cybersecurity workforce planning, recruitment, interviewing, and retention strategies for building high-performing security teams. RCCE students will learn to define cybersecurity job roles using frameworks like NICE/NIST, write effective job descriptions, evaluate candidate technical and soft skills, design practical interview assessments, navigate security clearance requirements, develop onboarding programs for new security hires, build career development paths that retain talent, manage diverse and distributed security teams, and address the cybersecurity talent shortage through alternative hiring pipelines. This practice-intensive course emphasizes applied skills through lab exercises, real-world scenarios, and production-realistic workflows. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn by doing, building muscle memory and practical confidence through repeated hands-on engagement. Students complete exercises that mirror actual workplace tasks, ensuring skills transfer directly to their professional 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 Hands-On Hiring: Fast Track
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for faster onboarding with sso — covering SSO centralizes authentication across applications.
- Execute hands-on tasks for business value
- Execute hands-on tasks for security risk — covering Reduced credential management overhead, Single point of failure for all applications.
- Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for 1. auth request
- Execute hands-on tasks for user / browser
- Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry, including Hub-and-spoke: IdP is the central trust anchor.
| Module 01 | Advanced Cyber Defense Mastery |
| Module 02 | Executive Overview |
| Module 03 | Faster onboarding with SSO |
| Module 04 | Business Value |
| Module 05 | Security Risk |
| Module 06 | Identity Provider - authenticates users, issues assertions |
| Module 07 | Service Provider - relies on IdP for authentication |
| Module 08 | SSO Architecture & System Design |
| Module 09 | 1. Auth Request |
| Module 10 | Service Provider |
| Module 11 | User / Browser |
| Module 12 | Identity Provider |
| Module 13 | SAML 2.0 Protocol Deep Dive |
| Module 14 | OP returns ID Token + Access Token |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice hands-on hiring: 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 advanced cyber defense mastery
- Lab 2: Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for faster onboarding with sso
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for business value
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for security risk
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Hands-On Hiring: 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