Vendor risk Operations Playbook
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 operations-focused course delivers production-ready playbooks, checklists, and standard operating procedures. At an expert level, RCCE students will learn to build repeatable day-to-day operational workflows that ensure consistency and quality. Students receive templates and frameworks they can customize and deploy immediately in their security operations, reducing time to operational effectiveness.
- 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 Operations Playbook
- Execute hands-on tasks for vendor risk operations playbook
- Execute hands-on tasks for advanced third-party risk management for security operations
- Explain Course Overview: Vendor Risk Operations fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn — covering Build vendor risk programs from scratch, vendor security posture at scale.
- Execute hands-on tasks for operational deliverables — covering Production-ready playbooks and SOPs, Vendor risk assessment templates.
- Execute hands-on tasks for production-ready playbooks and sops — covering Vendor risk assessment templates.
- Execute hands-on tasks for prerequisites & context — covering GRC foundations and risk terminology, Familiarity with security frameworks.
- Execute hands-on tasks for topic map: 20 core subtopics
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for certification assessment
- Execute hands-on tasks for security ratings
- Execute hands-on tasks for program pillars
| Module 01 | Vendor Risk Operations Playbook |
| Module 02 | Advanced Third-Party Risk Management for Security Operations |
| Module 03 | Course Overview: Vendor Risk Operations |
| Module 04 | What You Will Learn |
| Module 05 | Operational Deliverables |
| Module 06 | Production-ready playbooks and SOPs |
| Module 07 | Prerequisites & Context |
| Module 08 | Topic Map: 20 Core Subtopics |
| Module 09 | VRM Program Architecture |
| Module 10 | Certification Assessment |
| Module 11 | Security Ratings |
| Module 12 | Program Pillars |
| Module 13 | Organizational Integration |
| Module 14 | Incident Mgmt: coordinated response |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice vendor risk operations playbook by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Execute hands-on tasks for vendor risk operations playbook
- Lab 2: Execute hands-on tasks for advanced third-party risk management for security operations
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview: Vendor Risk Operations fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for what you will learn
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for operational deliverables
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Vendor risk Operations Playbook, 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