Zero-Trust Approach to Program management
RCCE students will learn security program management, executive communication, budgeting and resource allocation, team building, and strategic planning. RCCE students will learn to lead cybersecurity programs with confidence, communicate risk to stakeholders in business terms, build and retain high-performing security teams, allocate resources strategically, and align security strategy with organizational business objectives. 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 Program management
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Execute hands-on tasks for program management
- Explain Course Overview & Learning Objectives fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for core objectives
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation, including Lead cybersecurity programs with confidence, and Least privilege applied to program operations.
- Execute hands-on tasks for never trust
- Execute hands-on tasks for key frameworks & standards — covering Traditional perimeter-based trust is obsolete.
- Execute hands-on tasks for security program lifecycle
- Execute hands-on tasks for → implement → operate → measure → improve
- Execute hands-on tasks for assessment phase
- Execute hands-on tasks for planning phase
| Module 01 | Zero-Trust Approach to |
| Module 02 | Program Management |
| Module 03 | Course Overview & Learning Objectives |
| Module 04 | Core Objectives |
| Module 05 | Zero-Trust Principles Applied |
| Module 06 | Zero-Trust Fundamentals for Leaders |
| Module 07 | Never Trust |
| Module 08 | Key Frameworks & Standards |
| Module 09 | Security Program Lifecycle |
| Module 10 | → Implement → Operate → Measure → Improve |
| Module 11 | Assessment Phase |
| Module 12 | Planning Phase |
| Module 13 | Execution & Improvement |
| Module 14 | Zero-Trust Program Governance Structure |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice zero-trust approach to program management 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 program management
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview & Learning Objectives fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for core objectives
- Lab 5: Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Zero-Trust Approach to Program management, 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