Zero-Trust Approach to Ransomware response
RCCE students will learn ransomware incident response including ransomware identification and classification, containment procedures, decryption assessment, recovery operations, and post-incident hardening. RCCE students will learn to identify active ransomware infections and determine the ransomware variant, execute containment procedures to prevent further encryption and lateral movement, assess decryption options including free decryptors, backup restoration, and negotiation considerations, perform system recovery from clean backups, conduct forensic analysis to determine initial access and scope of compromise, implement post-incident hardening to prevent reinfection, and develop ransomware-specific response playbooks. This zero-trust course applies modern security principles including least privilege, continuous verification, and explicit trust evaluation. At an expert level, 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 Ransomware response
- Apply zero-trust principles to privilege decisions and elevation
- Build detections and response workflows for privilege escalation
- Execute hands-on tasks for identify & classify — covering Recognize active ransomware infections and.
- Execute hands-on tasks for recover systems — covering Perform recovery from verified clean backups.
- Execute hands-on tasks for contain & isolate — covering Execute containment to prevent encryption spread.
- Execute hands-on tasks for forensic analysis — covering Determine initial access vector and blast radius.
- Execute hands-on tasks for assess decryption — covering Evaluate free decryptors, backups, negotiation.
- Execute hands-on tasks for post-incident harden — covering zero-trust controls against reinfection.
- Execute hands-on tasks for never trust
- Implement least-privilege enforcement across endpoints and roles
- Execute hands-on tasks for continuous verification — covering Assume breach at all times, Minimum necessary access.
| Module 01 | Zero-Trust Approach to |
| Module 02 | Ransomware Response |
| Module 03 | Identify & Classify |
| Module 04 | Recover Systems |
| Module 05 | Contain & Isolate |
| Module 06 | Forensic Analysis |
| Module 07 | Assess Decryption |
| Module 08 | Post-Incident Harden |
| Module 09 | Zero-Trust Core Principles |
| Module 10 | Never Trust |
| Module 11 | Least Privilege |
| Module 12 | Continuous Verification |
| Module 13 | Ransomware Landscape & Taxonomy |
| Module 14 | Crypto Ransomware |
All hands-on labs run on Rocheston Rose X OS. Students practice zero-trust approach to ransomware response 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: Execute hands-on tasks for identify & classify
- Lab 4: Execute hands-on tasks for recover systems
- Lab 5: Execute hands-on tasks for contain & isolate
Upon successful completion of this course, students will receive an official RCCE Course Completion Certificate for Zero-Trust Approach to Ransomware response, 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