Tabletops Deep Dive: Fast Track
RCCE students will learn tabletop exercise design, facilitation, and analysis for testing incident response readiness across security teams and business stakeholders. RCCE students will learn to develop realistic scenarios based on current threat intelligence, facilitate tabletop exercises that test communication protocols, decision-making under pressure, and coordination between technical and executive teams. The course covers exercise planning, participant briefing, inject management, observer evaluation criteria, after-action report writing, and translating exercise findings into concrete improvements to incident response plans and organizational resilience. This deep-dive course provides comprehensive technical coverage that goes beyond surface-level understanding. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to master the nuances, edge cases, and advanced configurations that separate competent practitioners from true experts. Students will engage with complex real-world scenarios and gain the depth of knowledge required to troubleshoot difficult situations, mentor junior team members, and make architectural decisions with confidence.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Tabletops Deep Dive: Fast Track
- Execute hands-on tasks for tabletops deep dive: fast track
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for why tabletop exercises matter — covering IR plans before real incidents strike.
- Execute hands-on tasks for board-level visibility
- Execute hands-on tasks for regulatory compliance
- Execute hands-on tasks for cross-functional alignment
- Execute hands-on tasks for continuous improvement
- Execute hands-on tasks for core definitions & terminology
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for exercise planning & objectives setting
- Execute hands-on tasks for planning checklist — covering specific capability gaps to test, Identify exercise type and scope.
| Module 01 | Tabletops Deep Dive: Fast Track |
| Module 02 | Advanced Cyber Defense Mastery |
| Module 03 | Executive Overview |
| Module 04 | Why Tabletop Exercises Matter |
| Module 05 | Board-Level Visibility |
| Module 06 | Regulatory Compliance |
| Module 07 | Cross-Functional Alignment |
| Module 08 | Continuous Improvement |
| Module 09 | Core Definitions & Terminology |
| Module 10 | TTX Lifecycle Architecture |
| Module 11 | Exercise Planning & Objectives Setting |
| Module 12 | Planning Checklist |
| Module 13 | Scenario Design & Threat Intelligence Integration |
| Module 14 | Design Principles |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice tabletops deep dive: fast track by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for tabletops deep dive: fast track
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced cyber defense mastery
- Lab 3: Explain Executive Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for why tabletop exercises matter
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for board-level visibility
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Tabletops Deep Dive: Fast Track, 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