OT monitoring Hardening Clinic: Field Guide
RCCE students will learn operational technology environments, ICS/SCADA systems, industrial protocol security, safety-critical systems, and OT network segmentation. RCCE students will learn to protect industrial control systems with security controls that respect operational safety requirements, defend critical infrastructure against cyber-physical threats, and bridge the gap between IT security and OT operations. This hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn to apply hardening baselines, validate configurations, and measure the security improvement achieved. Students walk away with actionable hardening checklists and the skills to maintain hardened configurations as environments evolve.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing OT monitoring Hardening Clinic: Field Guide
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Execute hands-on tasks for field guide
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals — covering ICS/SCADA architectures.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ot fundamentals — covering ICS/SCADA architectures.
- Execute hands-on tasks for hardening practices — covering Configuration baselines.
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts, including OT-specific telemetry, Anomaly detection, and Incident response.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for confidentiality → integrity → availability — covering Safety → Availability → Integrity.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ot security — covering Confidentiality → Integrity → Availability.
- Execute hands-on tasks for standard tcp/ip protocols — covering Safety → Availability → Integrity.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for enterprise network
| Module 01 | OT Monitoring Hardening Clinic |
| Module 02 | Field Guide |
| Module 03 | Course Overview |
| Module 04 | OT Fundamentals |
| Module 05 | Hardening Practices |
| Module 06 | Monitoring & Detection |
| Module 07 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 08 | Confidentiality → Integrity → Availability |
| Module 09 | OT Security |
| Module 10 | Standard TCP/IP protocols |
| Module 11 | Purdue Model: ICS Architecture Zones |
| Module 12 | Enterprise Network |
| Module 13 | Industrial Protocol Landscape |
| Module 14 | Modbus TCP/RTU |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice ot monitoring hardening clinic: field guide by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for field guide
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for ot fundamentals
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for hardening practices
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for OT monitoring Hardening Clinic: Field Guide, 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