Zero-Trust Approach to Firewalls: Lab Series
RCCE students will learn firewall technologies including stateful packet inspection, next-generation firewalls, web application firewalls, network segmentation with firewalls, firewall rule management, and firewall log analysis. RCCE students will learn to design firewall architectures for enterprise networks, write and optimize firewall rules following least-privilege principles, troubleshoot firewall connectivity issues, analyze firewall logs for blocked and suspicious traffic, implement firewall change management processes, assess firewall configurations for security weaknesses, and respond to incidents involving firewall bypass or misconfiguration. This zero-trust course applies modern security principles including least privilege, continuous verification, and explicit trust evaluation. Building on core knowledge, 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 Firewalls: Lab Series
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Execute hands-on tasks for ransomware readiness: lab series
- Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Execute hands-on tasks for learning objectives
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation, including Prevention controls & detection capabilities, and Assume breach, verify every request.
- Execute hands-on tasks for topic map
- Design a scalable privilege management architecture with policy and enforcement
- Execute hands-on tasks for 13. immutable backups
- Execute hands-on tasks for 2. ransomware threat landscape
- Execute hands-on tasks for 8. email security
- Execute hands-on tasks for 14. backup resilience
- Execute hands-on tasks for 3. kill chain analysis
| Module 01 | Zero-Trust Approach to |
| Module 02 | Ransomware Readiness: Lab Series |
| Module 03 | Course Overview |
| Module 04 | Learning Objectives |
| Module 05 | Zero-Trust Principles |
| Module 06 | Topic Map |
| Module 07 | 1. Zero-Trust Architecture |
| Module 08 | 13. Immutable Backups |
| Module 09 | 2. Ransomware Threat Landscape |
| Module 10 | 8. Email Security |
| Module 11 | 14. Backup Resilience |
| Module 12 | 3. Kill Chain Analysis |
| Module 13 | 9. Endpoint Protection |
| Module 14 | 15. Recovery Validation |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice zero-trust approach to firewalls: lab series 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 ransomware readiness: lab series
- Lab 3: Explain Course Overview fundamentals
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for learning 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 Firewalls: Lab Series, 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