Playbooks Incident Response: Mastery
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 incident response course prepares students to act decisively during security incidents with structured workflows and clear decision frameworks. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn containment, evidence collection, eradication, and recovery procedures specific to this domain. Students practice incident scenarios that build the composure, coordination, and documentation skills essential for effective incident handling.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Playbooks Incident Response: Mastery
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for module objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for what is an ir playbook?
- Execute hands-on tasks for key characteristics — covering Structured workflow document for incident response, Repeatable and auditable response steps.
- Execute hands-on tasks for why playbooks matter — covering Reduce mean-time-to-respond (MTTR) by 40-60%.
- Execute hands-on tasks for playbook vs runbook vs procedure
- Execute hands-on tasks for playbook lifecycle
- Execute hands-on tasks for → deploy → execute → review
- Execute hands-on tasks for plan & develop — covering Identify threat scenarios from risk assessments.
- Execute hands-on tasks for test, deploy & review — covering Tabletop exercises with realistic scenarios.
- Explain Playbook Architecture Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for trigger layer
| Module 01 | Playbooks Incident Response: Mastery |
| Module 02 | Module Objectives |
| Module 03 | What Is an IR Playbook? |
| Module 04 | Key Characteristics |
| Module 05 | Why Playbooks Matter |
| Module 06 | Playbook vs Runbook vs Procedure |
| Module 07 | Playbook Lifecycle |
| Module 08 | → Deploy → Execute → Review |
| Module 09 | Plan & Develop |
| Module 10 | Test, Deploy & Review |
| Module 11 | Playbook Architecture Overview |
| Module 12 | Trigger Layer |
| Module 13 | Triage Layer |
| Module 14 | Decision Layer |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice playbooks incident response: mastery by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for module objectives
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for what is an ir playbook?
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for key characteristics
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for why playbooks matter
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Playbooks Incident Response: Mastery, 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