Zero-Trust Approach to Policies and standards: Field Guide
RCCE students will learn security policy development, implementation, and lifecycle management including information security policies, acceptable use policies, data classification policies, and incident response policies. RCCE students will learn to develop security policies aligned with organizational objectives and regulatory requirements, structure policy hierarchies (policies, standards, guidelines, procedures), obtain management approval and organizational buy-in, communicate policies effectively to employees, implement policy exceptions processes, conduct periodic policy reviews and updates, measure policy compliance, and enforce policies through technical controls and administrative processes. 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 Policies and standards: Field Guide
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Execute hands-on tasks for policy development — covering Build zero-trust security policies.
- Execute hands-on tasks for implementation & lifecycle — covering Obtain management buy-in, Communicate policies effectively, exceptions process.
- Execute hands-on tasks for compliance & enforcement — covering policy compliance rates.
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation, including Apply least privilege principles.
- Explain Zero-Trust Policy Foundations fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for never trust, always verify
- Implement least-privilege enforcement across endpoints and roles, including Every access request validated, and Minimum permissions required.
- Execute hands-on tasks for explicit verification — covering Micro-segmentation by default.
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
| Module 01 | Zero-Trust Approach to |
| Module 02 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 03 | Policy Development |
| Module 04 | Implementation & Lifecycle |
| Module 05 | Compliance & Enforcement |
| Module 06 | Zero-Trust Integration |
| Module 07 | Zero-Trust Policy Foundations |
| Module 08 | Never Trust, Always Verify |
| Module 09 | Least Privilege Access |
| Module 10 | Explicit Verification |
| Module 11 | Zero-Trust vs Traditional Policy Models |
| Module 12 | Traditional Model |
| Module 13 | Zero-Trust Model |
| Module 14 | Trust Boundary |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice zero-trust approach to policies and standards: field guide 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: Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Lab 3: Execute hands-on tasks for policy development
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for implementation & lifecycle
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for compliance & enforcement
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Zero-Trust Approach to Policies and standards: Field Guide, 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