Zero-Trust Approach to BEC response: Blueprint
RCCE students will learn Business Email Compromise detection, prevention, and response including CEO fraud, vendor impersonation, account compromise, and wire transfer fraud. RCCE students will learn to identify BEC attack patterns and social engineering tactics, implement technical controls to detect BEC including email authentication, anomalous login detection, and mail flow analysis, configure rules to flag financial request emails, investigate suspected BEC incidents including email account forensics and financial transaction tracing, coordinate with financial institutions for wire transfer recovery, and develop BEC awareness training and reporting procedures for finance and executive teams. This zero-trust course applies modern security principles including least privilege, continuous verification, and explicit trust evaluation. Starting from foundational concepts, RCCE students will learn to implement zero-trust architectures that assume breach and verify every access request regardless of network location. Students build practical zero-trust implementations that align with organizational security modernization goals.
- Security Engineers building defensive controls
- Security Analysts and Blue Team members
- Systems Administrators with security responsibilities
- GRC and Risk Professionals supporting controls
- Professionals implementing Zero-Trust Approach to BEC response: Blueprint
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for 4 credit hours
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for fbi ic3 top cybercrime by dollar loss — covering $2.7B+ losses reported annually.
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation, including Traditional perimeter defenses fail against social engineering.
- Execute hands-on tasks for attorney impersonation — covering Impersonates executive to authorize wire, Poses as legal counsel for urgency.
- Execute hands-on tasks for vendor impersonation
- Execute hands-on tasks for data theft — covering Spoofs supplier invoices and payments, Targets HR/finance for PII and W-2s.
- Execute hands-on tasks for account compromise — covering Hijacks employee email for requests.
| Module 01 | Zero-Trust Approach to |
| Module 02 | Business Email Compromise Detection, Prevention & Incident Response |
| Module 03 | Incident Response |
| Module 04 | 4 Credit Hours |
| Module 05 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 06 | FBI IC3 top cybercrime by dollar loss |
| Module 07 | Why Zero-Trust Matters for BEC |
| Module 08 | Attorney Impersonation |
| Module 09 | Vendor Impersonation |
| Module 10 | Data Theft |
| Module 11 | Account Compromise |
| Module 12 | Zero-Trust Principles for Email Security |
| Module 13 | Never Trust, Always Verify |
| Module 14 | Least Privilege Access |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice zero-trust approach to bec response: blueprint by implementing the controls discussed in class, with a focus on real-world deployment, monitoring, and validation.
- Lab 1: Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Lab 2: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 3: Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for 4 credit hours
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Zero-Trust Approach to BEC response: Blueprint, 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