Recon Hardening Workshop: Field Guide
RCCE students will learn reconnaissance methodologies including passive and active reconnaissance, OSINT gathering, network scanning, service enumeration, and target profiling for security assessments. RCCE students will learn to conduct passive reconnaissance using public data sources, DNS records, certificate transparency logs, and social media, perform active reconnaissance including port scanning, service fingerprinting, and web application enumeration, use tools including Nmap, Shodan, Censys, and custom scripts, map organizational attack surfaces, identify potential entry points and high-value targets, maintain operational security during reconnaissance, and document reconnaissance findings for penetration test planning. This hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. Starting from foundational concepts, 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 Recon Hardening Workshop: Field Guide
- Execute hands-on tasks for recon hardening workshop:
- Execute hands-on tasks for field guide
- Measure attack surface reduction and program effectiveness
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for reconnaissance track — covering Passive and active recon methods, OSINT, DNS, certificate transparency.
- Execute hands-on tasks for hardening track — covering Baseline configuration standards, Attack surface reduction.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning outcomes — covering Conduct passive and active recon assessments, Use Nmap, Shodan, Censys for discovery.
- Execute hands-on tasks for module roadmap
- Execute hands-on tasks for beginner level — covering Fundamentals, simple workflows, key artifacts, hands-on labs.
- Execute hands-on tasks for reconnaissance fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what is reconnaissance?
- Execute hands-on tasks for why it matters — covering Systematic information gathering, 80% of pentest success is recon quality.
| Module 01 | Recon Hardening Workshop: |
| Module 02 | Field Guide |
| Module 03 | Reconnaissance Methodologies & Attack Surface Reduction |
| Module 04 | Course Overview |
| Module 05 | Reconnaissance Track |
| Module 06 | Hardening Track |
| Module 07 | Learning Outcomes |
| Module 08 | Module Roadmap |
| Module 09 | Beginner Level |
| Module 10 | Reconnaissance Fundamentals |
| Module 11 | What Is Reconnaissance? |
| Module 12 | Why It Matters |
| Module 13 | Passive Reconnaissance |
| Module 14 | Active Reconnaissance |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice recon hardening workshop: field guide by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for recon hardening workshop:
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for field guide
- Lab 3: Measure attack surface reduction and program effectiveness
- Lab 4: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for reconnaissance track
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Recon Hardening Workshop: 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