Playbooks for Beginners
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. Designed for students with no prior experience in this area, this course builds knowledge from the ground up with clear explanations, guided demonstrations, and progressive skill-building. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn core concepts through practical examples that connect theory to real-world security operations. By completion, students will have the foundational knowledge and hands-on confidence needed to contribute in professional cybersecurity 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 Playbooks for Beginners
- Execute hands-on tasks for playbooks for beginners
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives — covering Build playbooks for common attack scenarios, Integrate playbook actions with SOAR platforms.
- Execute hands-on tasks for develop ir playbooks — covering Build playbooks for common attack scenarios, Integrate playbook actions with SOAR platforms.
- Execute hands-on tasks for automate with soar — covering Integrate playbook actions with SOAR platforms.
- Execute hands-on tasks for test & validate — covering Run tabletop exercises and simulations.
- Execute hands-on tasks for measure & maintain — covering Track response time and outcome metrics.
- Execute hands-on tasks for knowledge transfer — covering Captures institutional expertise.
- Execute hands-on tasks for playbooks vs runbooks vs procedures
- Execute hands-on tasks for audience: ir analysts & leads — covering Task-driven.
- Execute hands-on tasks for audience: operations engineers — covering Policy-driven.
| Module 01 | Playbooks for Beginners |
| Module 02 | Incident Response Playbook Development, Execution & Maintenance |
| Module 03 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 04 | Develop IR Playbooks |
| Module 05 | Automate with SOAR |
| Module 06 | Test & Validate |
| Module 07 | Measure & Maintain |
| Module 08 | What Is an Incident Response Playbook? |
| Module 09 | Knowledge Transfer |
| Module 10 | Playbooks vs Runbooks vs Procedures |
| Module 11 | Audience: IR analysts & leads |
| Module 12 | Audience: Operations engineers |
| Module 13 | IR Lifecycle: Where Playbooks Fit |
| Module 14 | Preparation Phase |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice playbooks for beginners by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for playbooks for beginners
- Lab 2: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for develop ir playbooks
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for automate with soar
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Playbooks for Beginners, 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