Ransomware readiness Operations Playbook
RCCE students will learn organizational ransomware preparedness including prevention controls, detection capabilities, response planning, backup resilience, and recovery procedures. RCCE students will learn to assess organizational ransomware readiness through maturity assessments, implement multi-layered ransomware prevention controls including email security, endpoint protection, and network segmentation, configure detection rules for ransomware behavioral patterns, develop ransomware-specific incident response playbooks, design and test immutable backup architectures, conduct ransomware tabletop exercises, validate recovery capabilities through realistic tests, and build organizational awareness programs that reduce ransomware infection risk. This operations-focused course delivers production-ready playbooks, checklists, and standard operating procedures. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to build repeatable day-to-day operational workflows that ensure consistency and quality. Students receive templates and frameworks they can customize and deploy immediately in their security operations, reducing time to operational effectiveness.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Ransomware readiness Operations Playbook
- Execute hands-on tasks for ransomware readiness
- Execute hands-on tasks for operations playbook
- Execute hands-on tasks for assess readiness — covering Conduct ransomware maturity.
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation, including Create incident response, Prevention, and Deploy multi-layered controls.
- Execute hands-on tasks for implement prevention — covering Deploy multi-layered controls.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ensure recovery — covering immutable backup.
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation, including behavioral detection.
- Execute hands-on tasks for drive awareness — covering Build organizational training.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ransomware threat landscape
- Execute hands-on tasks for impact categories — covering Ransomware-as-a-Service.
- Execute hands-on tasks for ransomware kill chain
- Execute hands-on tasks for initial access
| Module 01 | Ransomware Readiness |
| Module 02 | Operations Playbook |
| Module 03 | Assess Readiness |
| Module 04 | Develop Response |
| Module 05 | Implement Prevention |
| Module 06 | Ensure Recovery |
| Module 07 | Build Detection |
| Module 08 | Drive Awareness |
| Module 09 | Ransomware Threat Landscape |
| Module 10 | Impact Categories |
| Module 11 | Ransomware Kill Chain |
| Module 12 | Initial Access |
| Module 13 | Lateral Move |
| Module 14 | Pre-Encryption Window |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice ransomware readiness operations playbook by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for ransomware readiness
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for operations playbook
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for assess readiness
- Lab 4: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for implement prevention
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Ransomware readiness Operations Playbook, 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