SIEM Troubleshooting
RCCE students will learn Security Information and Event Management platform deployment, configuration, and operations including log ingestion, parsing, correlation rule development, dashboard creation, and alert management. RCCE students will learn to deploy and configure SIEM platforms for enterprise security monitoring, design log collection architectures, write correlation rules that detect attack patterns, build operational dashboards for security analysts, manage alert workflows and escalation procedures, tune SIEM performance and storage, integrate threat intelligence feeds, and maintain SIEM content as the threat landscape and organizational infrastructure evolve. This diagnostic course focuses on identifying, analyzing, and resolving common failures, misconfigurations, and operational issues. Building on core knowledge, RCCE students will learn systematic troubleshooting methodologies that accelerate root-cause analysis and minimize downtime. Students work through realistic break-fix scenarios that build the diagnostic confidence needed for high-pressure production environments.
- SOC Analysts and Incident Responders
- Detection Engineers and SIEM Content Authors
- Threat Hunters improving adversary coverage
- Security Operations Team Leads
- Professionals implementing SIEM Troubleshooting
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for lab environment — covering Virtual SOC with ELK / Splunk sandbox.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for troubleshoot log ingestion
- Execute hands-on tasks for debug parsing pipelines — covering Identify broken collectors and forwarders, Locate extraction regex failures.
- Execute hands-on tasks for restore dashboards & alerts — covering Trace rule logic step by step.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for log sources
- Execute hands-on tasks for data plane — covering Agents, syslog, API collectors.
- Execute hands-on tasks for processing plane — covering Parsing / normalization pipeline.
- Execute hands-on tasks for analytics plane — covering Correlation engine and rule execution.
- Execute hands-on tasks for presentation plane — covering Real-time dashboards and visualizations.
| Module 01 | Course Overview |
| Module 02 | Lab Environment |
| Module 03 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 04 | Troubleshoot Log Ingestion |
| Module 05 | Debug Parsing Pipelines |
| Module 06 | Restore Dashboards & Alerts |
| Module 07 | SIEM Architecture Reference |
| Module 08 | Log Sources |
| Module 09 | Data Plane |
| Module 10 | Processing Plane |
| Module 11 | Analytics Plane |
| Module 12 | Presentation Plane |
| Module 13 | Systematic Troubleshooting Methodology |
| Module 14 | Identify & Isolate |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice siem troubleshooting by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for lab environment
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for troubleshoot log ingestion
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for debug parsing pipelines
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for SIEM Troubleshooting, 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