Tabletops Hardening Workshop: 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 hands-on hardening course focuses on reducing attack surface through practical configuration changes and security guardrails. Building on core knowledge, 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 Tabletops Hardening Workshop: Fast Track
- Execute hands-on tasks for tabletops hardening workshop
- Execute hands-on tasks for fast track
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for tabletop exercises — covering realistic IR scenarios, Facilitate cross-team exercises.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement, including Facilitate cross-team exercises.
- Execute hands-on tasks for system hardening — covering Apply hardening baselines (CIS/DISA), security configurations.
- Execute hands-on tasks for apply hardening baselines (cis/disa) — covering security configurations.
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for facilitation skills — covering Build threat-intel-driven scenarios, inject timelines effectively.
- Execute hands-on tasks for analysis & reporting — covering Apply CIS/DISA/STIG baselines.
- Execute hands-on tasks for tabletop exercise fundamentals — covering Low-cost, discussion-based exercise, No live systems or simulations.
| Module 01 | Tabletops Hardening Workshop |
| Module 02 | Fast Track |
| Module 03 | Course Overview |
| Module 04 | Tabletop Exercises |
| Module 05 | Design realistic IR scenarios |
| Module 06 | System Hardening |
| Module 07 | Apply hardening baselines (CIS/DISA) |
| Module 08 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 09 | Exercise Design |
| Module 10 | Facilitation Skills |
| Module 11 | Analysis & Reporting |
| Module 12 | Tabletop Exercise Fundamentals |
| Module 13 | What Is a Tabletop? |
| Module 14 | Why Tabletops Matter |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice tabletops hardening workshop: 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 hardening workshop
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for fast track
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for tabletop exercises
- Lab 5: Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Tabletops Hardening Workshop: 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