Incident communications Threats, Tactics, and Defenses
RCCE students will learn incident communication planning and execution including internal stakeholder notifications, external party communications, media handling, regulatory breach notifications, and crisis communications. RCCE students will learn to develop communication templates for various incident scenarios, establish communication chains of command, coordinate messaging between technical teams, legal counsel, public relations, and executive leadership, manage communication timing to balance transparency with investigation needs, handle media inquiries during active incidents, and comply with regulatory notification requirements including GDPR 72-hour notification rules. This threat-focused course teaches students to think like adversaries while building robust defenses. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to analyze attack techniques, build detection logic, and implement defensive strategies that proactively identify threats before they cause damage. Students develop a threat-informed mindset that drives better security decisions across all operational activities.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Incident communications Threats, Tactics, and Defenses
- Execute hands-on tasks for incident communications
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn — covering Threat-Informed Mindset.
- Execute hands-on tasks for why incident communications matter
- Execute hands-on tasks for communication planning framework
- Execute hands-on tasks for during incident
- Execute hands-on tasks for coordinate with legal and pr — covering Conduct lessons-learned review.
- Execute hands-on tasks for communication stakeholder map
- Execute hands-on tasks for internal stakeholder notifications
- Execute hands-on tasks for executive leadership — covering Notify C-suite within 30 minutes of, Provide business impact assessment.
- Execute hands-on tasks for technical teams — covering Share IOCs and affected systems, Establish dedicated war room channel, Coordinate employee communications.
- Execute hands-on tasks for hr and operations — covering Coordinate employee communications, access revocations if insider threat.
| Module 01 | Incident Communications |
| Module 02 | Course Overview |
| Module 03 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 04 | Why Incident Communications Matter |
| Module 05 | Communication Planning Framework |
| Module 06 | During Incident |
| Module 07 | Coordinate with legal and PR |
| Module 08 | Communication Stakeholder Map |
| Module 09 | Internal Stakeholder Notifications |
| Module 10 | Executive Leadership |
| Module 11 | Technical Teams |
| Module 12 | HR and Operations |
| Module 13 | Board of Directors |
| Module 14 | Escalation Rules |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice incident communications threats, tactics, and defenses 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 communications
- Lab 2: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for why incident communications matter
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for communication planning framework
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Incident communications Threats, Tactics, and Defenses, 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