Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identity
RCCE students will learn how decentralized identity models and verifiable credentials use cryptographic trust to support portable identity assertions, selective disclosure, and privacy-aware verification. RCCE students will learn to understand issuer-verifier-holder relationships, evaluate trust models, analyze revocation and lifecycle challenges, and assess when decentralized identity is useful versus unnecessarily complex. The course covers practical scenarios ranging from credential issuance to verification, privacy design, and governance. RCCE students will learn to analyze complex systems and think like an attacker to better defend the organization. This comprehensive course delivers practical knowledge applicable to real-world cybersecurity operations. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn through a combination of concept explanation, practical demonstration, and hands-on exercises.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identity
- Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry
- Explain Decentralized Identity Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for globally unique
- Execute hands-on tasks for parse method
- Execute hands-on tasks for invoke resolver
- Execute hands-on tasks for validate & return
- Execute hands-on tasks for resolution metadata
- Execute hands-on tasks for universal resolver — covering Content-Type of DID Document, W3C DIF Universal Resolver.
- Execute hands-on tasks for method-specific metadata (e.g. chain id) — covering W3C DIF Universal Resolver.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
| Module 01 | Decentralized Identity |
| Module 02 | Decentralized Identity Overview |
| Module 03 | Traditional Identity |
| Module 04 | Self-Sovereign Identity Principles |
| Module 05 | Globally Unique |
| Module 06 | Parse Method |
| Module 07 | Invoke Resolver |
| Module 08 | Validate & Return |
| Module 09 | Resolution Metadata |
| Module 10 | Universal Resolver |
| Module 11 | Method-specific metadata (e.g. chain ID) |
| Module 12 | Verifiable Credentials Data Model |
| Module 13 | Issuer-Holder-Verifier Triangle |
| Module 14 | Credential Issuance Flows |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice verifiable credentials and decentralized identity by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry
- Lab 2: Explain Decentralized Identity Overview fundamentals
- Lab 3: Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry
- Lab 4: Integrate privilege controls with identity providers and SIEM telemetry
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for globally unique
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Verifiable Credentials and Decentralized Identity, 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