Security Champions Programs for Engineering Teams
RCCE students will learn how to build distributed security leadership inside engineering organizations by training and empowering security champions within product and platform teams. RCCE students will learn to define champion responsibilities, create feedback loops, scale secure development practices, measure engagement, and align security influence with engineering culture and delivery realities. The course covers practical scenarios ranging from program design to onboarding, mentoring, governance, and maturity tracking. RCCE students will learn to analyze complex systems and think like an attacker to better defend the organization. This comprehensive course delivers practical knowledge applicable to real-world cybersecurity operations. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn through a combination of concept explanation, practical demonstration, and hands-on exercises.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Security Champions Programs for Engineering Teams
- Execute hands-on tasks for security champions programs
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cybersecurity leadership & secure engineering culture
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Execute hands-on tasks for course structure — covering Foundations of program design.
- Execute hands-on tasks for why security champions matter
- Execute hands-on tasks for the solution
- Execute hands-on tasks for the impact — covering Central security teams cannot, Distributed security.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Central security team as hub, and Autonomous security leads per BU.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Full-time security in each squad.
| Module 01 | Security Champions Programs |
| Module 02 | Advanced Cybersecurity Leadership & Secure Engineering Culture |
| Module 03 | Course Overview |
| Module 04 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 05 | Course Structure |
| Module 06 | Why Security Champions Matter |
| Module 07 | The Solution |
| Module 08 | The Impact |
| Module 09 | Program Design & Organizational Models |
| Module 10 | Hub-and-Spoke Model |
| Module 11 | Federated Model |
| Module 12 | Embedded Model |
| Module 13 | Hybrid Approach |
| Module 14 | Executive Sponsors |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice security champions programs for engineering teams by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for security champions programs
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cybersecurity leadership & secure engineering culture
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for course structure
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Security Champions Programs for Engineering Teams, 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