Vendor risk Incident Response
RCCE students will learn comprehensive vendor and third-party risk management covering vendor due diligence, ongoing monitoring, contract security clauses, and vendor incident coordination. RCCE students will learn to build vendor risk management programs from the ground up, assess vendor security posture through questionnaires, certifications, and independent testing, negotiate security requirements into vendor contracts, implement continuous vendor risk monitoring using security ratings and threat intelligence, manage fourth-party risk through supply chain mapping, respond to vendor security incidents, and maintain vendor risk registers that inform procurement and partnership decisions. This incident response course prepares students to act decisively during security incidents with structured workflows and clear decision frameworks. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn containment, evidence collection, eradication, and recovery procedures specific to this domain. Students practice incident scenarios that build the composure, coordination, and documentation skills essential for effective incident handling.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Vendor risk Incident Response
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for vendor risk management
- Execute hands-on tasks for supply chain resilience — covering Incident Response.
- Explain Topic Map Overview fundamentals
- Explain 1. VRM Foundations fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for 2. due diligence
- Execute hands-on tasks for 3. security questionnaires
- Execute hands-on tasks for 5. contract clauses
- Monitor and audit privilege usage; detect escalation attempts
- Execute hands-on tasks for 7. security ratings
- Execute hands-on tasks for 8. fourth-party risk
| Module 01 | Vendor Risk Incident Response |
| Module 02 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 03 | Vendor Risk Management |
| Module 04 | Supply Chain Resilience |
| Module 05 | Topic Map Overview |
| Module 06 | 1. VRM Foundations |
| Module 07 | 2. Due Diligence |
| Module 08 | 3. Security Questionnaires |
| Module 09 | 5. Contract Clauses |
| Module 10 | 6. Continuous Monitoring |
| Module 11 | 7. Security Ratings |
| Module 12 | 8. Fourth-Party Risk |
| Module 13 | 9. Vendor Risk Registers |
| Module 14 | Vendor Risk Management Foundations |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice vendor risk incident response by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for vendor risk management
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for supply chain resilience
- Lab 5: Explain Topic Map Overview fundamentals
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Vendor risk Incident Response, 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