Threat landscape for Beginners
RCCE students will learn the current cybersecurity threat landscape including advanced persistent threats, cybercrime ecosystems, hacktivism, insider threats, and emerging attack techniques. RCCE students will learn to track threat landscape changes through intelligence sources, assess organizational exposure to prevailing threats, map threats to specific business assets and processes, prioritize security investments based on threat-informed risk analysis, brief leadership on threat landscape developments, and continuously update security strategies as the threat landscape evolves across geopolitical, technological, and criminal dimensions. Designed for students with no prior experience in this area, this course builds knowledge from the ground up with clear explanations, guided demonstrations, and progressive skill-building. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn core concepts through practical examples that connect theory to real-world security operations. By completion, students will have the foundational knowledge and hands-on confidence needed to contribute in professional cybersecurity roles.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Threat landscape for Beginners
- Execute hands-on tasks for threat landscape
- Explain Foundations • Level: Beginner • 4 Credit Hours fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for understand threat landscape — covering Identify major threat categories.
- Execute hands-on tasks for track & analyze threats — covering Use threat intelligence sources, Connect threats to business processes.
- Execute hands-on tasks for map threats to assets — covering Connect threats to business processes.
- Execute hands-on tasks for inform security strategy — covering Prioritize security investments.
- Execute hands-on tasks for what is a threat landscape?
- Execute hands-on tasks for key components
- Execute hands-on tasks for why it matters — covering Threat actors and motivations, Informs resource allocation.
- Execute hands-on tasks for evolution of the threat landscape
- Execute hands-on tasks for script kiddies
- Execute hands-on tasks for key shift: commoditization — covering Attack tools now sold as services.
| Module 01 | Threat Landscape |
| Module 02 | Foundations • Level: Beginner • 4 Credit Hours |
| Module 03 | Understand Threat Landscape |
| Module 04 | Track & Analyze Threats |
| Module 05 | Map Threats to Assets |
| Module 06 | Inform Security Strategy |
| Module 07 | What Is a Threat Landscape? |
| Module 08 | Key Components |
| Module 09 | Why It Matters |
| Module 10 | Evolution of the Threat Landscape |
| Module 11 | Script Kiddies |
| Module 12 | Key Shift: Commoditization |
| Module 13 | Key Shift: Sophistication |
| Module 14 | Threat Actor Categories |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice threat landscape for beginners by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for threat landscape
- Lab 2: Explain Foundations • Level: Beginner • 4 Credit Hours fundamentals
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for understand threat landscape
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for track & analyze threats
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for map threats to assets
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Threat landscape for Beginners, 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